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The Weekend Wrap

Scorpio raises fresh questions over dodgy donations to the ANC; SA’s long journey to the Chelsea Flower Show; and how the ICC’s warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders could unfold.

Scorpio’s latest investigations raise fresh questions over the ANC’s financial gains from government contracts.

By Pieter-Louis Myburgh

South Africa’s triumphant return to the world’s greatest floral feast, the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show in London this week, followed a hard and long journey.

By Kristin Engel

South Africa’s triumphant return to the world’s greatest floral feast, the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show in London this week, followed a hard and long journey.

By Kristin Engel

Daily Maverick chief photographer Felix Dlangamandla recently spent a few hours in the notorious Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi, Durban. A place known for violent murders between 2014 and 2016, Dlangamandla’s images tell a story of continuing living challenges, but also of hope for what could be.

By Felix Dlangamandla

Accusations of treason, war-hungry rebel groups, and bad sangomas. 

By Malibongwe Tyilo

Political actors and partisan media outlets have been fomenting online violence against prominent Daily Maverick journalists, according to a study published on Wednesday by the US-based International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). 

By Julie Posetti and Julie Reid

Accusations of treason, war-hungry rebel groups, and bad sangomas. 

By Malibongwe Tyilo

Political actors and partisan media outlets have been fomenting online violence against prominent Daily Maverick journalists, according to a study published on Wednesday by the US-based International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). 

By Julie Posetti and Julie Reid

It would be difficult to find someone who has made a more outstanding contribution to higher education in democratic-era South Africa than Professor Thoko Mayekiso.

By Tinyiko Maluleke

The International Criminal Court has applied for arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas. Daily Maverick unpacks what this means and what happens next.

By Victoria O’Regan

For Thomas Kruger’s bereaved family, his suicide at St Andrew’s College in Makhanda was inexplicable. Five years later, with the launch of a documentary focusing on harm experienced by boys at elite schools, are they any closer to getting justice for their son?

By Robyn Wolfson Vorster

In 1982, most of Zimbabwe’s fixed-wing air power was destroyed during a nighttime raid on the Thornhill Air Base. The involvement of SA’s apartheid regime — and its collaborators — was always suspected, yet conclusive evidence has not emerged until now.

By Stuart Doran

Donald Goddard, the Zimbabwean parliamentarian who played a major part in the destruction of his country's fixed wing air power in 1982.

Kagiso Rabada has taken young Kwena Maphaka under his wing at his sporting agency, helping to guide him to his full potential.

By Keanan Hemmonsbey

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