A look at SA’s offer to mediate the Israel-Palestine conflict. Has Joburg stopped growing or are the 2022 census numbers simply wrong? And good reasons to recycle your old vape or unused iPhone.
At a time when the US and much of Europe identify as supporters of the national security and self-determination of Israel, South Africa’s embrace of similar goals for the people of Palestine may provide a moral and diplomatic counterpoint should any peace process finally unfold.
By John Stremlau
A role in mediation demands at least a perception of impartiality. Given Pretoria’s consistent partiality towards the Palestinians over Israel, it would do best to remain schtum rather than posture on peace.
By By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
A role in mediation demands at least a perception of impartiality. Given Pretoria’s consistent partiality towards the Palestinians over Israel, it would do best to remain schtum rather than posture on peace.
By By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
If the census figures are correct, Cape Town (with 4,772,846 people) stood just behind Johannesburg’s total of 4,803,262 in early 2022. But it is reportedly growing at double Johannesburg’s rate, which means that it will already have overtaken Johannesburg as South Africa’s largest city.
By Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Darlington Mushongera and Graeme Gotz
Having confirmed the worst-kept secret, the e-commerce giant will begin local operations, but only next year.
By Toby Shapshak
A series of comments by former president Thabo Mbeki that the ANC has not lived up to its promise to renew itself and that a weak South African state faces rampant privatisation have put the party on the back foot — there is just so much truth in what he said.
By Stephen Grootes
The World Health Organization reports that nations with sugar-sweetened beverage tariffs have experienced significant benefits not only in public health strategy but also in their economies.
By Nzama Mbalati
E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. But one-sixth of it is invisible to us and will either prove hazardous in a landfill or be a wasted precious resource.
By Julia Evans
E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. But one-sixth of it is invisible to us and will either prove hazardous in a landfill or be a wasted precious resource.
By Julia Evans
Bridget Hilton-Barber and her friend and fellow traveller Hugh Fraser have left Rwanda and are slowly making their way back down south. In this instalment, they reach the edge of the world in majestic Malawi.
By Bridget Hilton-Barber
Wildlife worldwide fear the human super predator far more than each system’s non-human apex predator like lions, leopards, wolves, cougars, bears and dogs, researchers have found.
By Shaun Smillie
Forget hiding your hard-earned cash under your mattress. If you know how to exchange your crumbling currency for a dollar stablecoin, you could be protected against the economic silly walks of your government.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
Forget hiding your hard-earned cash under your mattress. If you know how to exchange your crumbling currency for a dollar stablecoin, you could be protected against the economic silly walks of your government.
By Steven Boykey Sidley
The old William Nicol Drive is now Winnie Mandela Drive. Let’s see what else needs a new moniker slapped on.
By Shaun de Waal
The old William Nicol Drive is now Winnie Mandela Drive. Let’s see what else needs a new moniker slapped on.
By Shaun de Waal
There’s cooking, and there’s trying to be a better cook. I’m a self-taught cook. And long ago, to learn how to be a better cook, I went back to basics. To Richard Olney’s The French Menu Cookbook. And the section titled Aromatics, on Pages 49 to 63. My battle-worn copy falls open to these pages if you don’t count pages 181 to 290 which fall out of the book entirely and have to be picked up off the floor.
By Tony Jackman
Subscribe to First Thing to receive the Weekend Wrap in your inbox every Sunday morning.
If you value the work our journalists do and want to support Daily Maverick, consider becoming a Maverick Insider.
Daily Maverick © All rights reserved
