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OP-ED

Creating an inclusive city: Cape Town property developers get ahead of the curve

Ndifuna Ukwazi
4 mins

 Integrating palliative care

How palliative care helped Uganda’s seriously ill children when the Covid-19 pandemic struck

Nicky GunnClark, Emmanuel Kamonyo and Desia Colgan

SAVE OUR PLANET

Time to take off the climate crisis blinkers and accept that everything as we know it needs to change

Don Pinnock

CALL TO ACTION

Defend Our Democracy campaign aims to get South Africa back on its feet

Michelle Banda and Luyanda Zukane

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OPINIONISTA

The alienation of people by private institutions such as Kalk Bay’s Brass Bell must end

Michael Brown
4 mins

GROUNDUP

Protesters amass at CTICC demanding inclusive dialogue at housing indaba

Vincent Lali, Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons
3 mins

GROUNDUP FISHING RIGHTS

Hout Bay small-scale fishers say they’ve been scuppered by latest Fishing Rights Allocation Process

Liezl Human for GroundUp
3 mins

BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM

Learning to cope and coping to learn – how to help teenage moms stay in school

Aisha Abdool Karim
10 mins

SPOTLIGHT OP-ED

Room to breathe — time to take clean indoor air as seriously as we take clean water

Wieda Human, Ingrid Schoeman, Ruvandhi Nathavitharana, Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen, and Ananja van der Westhuizen
5 mins

ZIMBABWE IN RUINS OP-ED

Is the solution for Zimbabwe elections or constitutionalism, rule of law and a de-militarised state?

Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
5 mins

HIGH AND DRY

Villages suffer while bloated costs, contractor trouble halt Eastern Cape water project

Estelle Ellis
5 mins

TOP READS THIS HOUR

South Africa

How low can they all go, Mr President? The case of the still unbreakable Mr Mbalula
Maverick Life

Here’s how much sleep you really need for optimal cognition and wellbeing – new research
Ukraine Crisis

Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Scholz sharply disagree on Ukraine
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2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence
South Africa

Two Gupta acolytes and ex-Mineral Resources top official arrested over R1,75bn pillaging of mine trust funds
South Africa

‘Give me 18 to 36 months’, says Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse to residents buckling under endless blackouts
Ukraine Crisis

George Soros advises world leaders how to ditch Putin’s war-financing gas supply

INVESTMENT IN SOCIETY OP-ED

Social cohesion after the 2021 unrest — where there’s political will, there is a way

Sean Tait and Dale T McKinley

HEALTHCARE ABUSE OP-ED

Obstetric violence against women has become a normalised phenomenon in South Africa

Jess Rucell

GROUNDUP GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Constitutional Court finds minister liable for sloppy police work in handling case of repeated rape

Tania Broughton

Culture op-ed

Creating new spaces and new ‘publics’ in towns

Marcela Guerrero Casas

FOOD CRISIS: VISUAL ESSAY

Fighting hunger, one bowl at a time – two days in the unending battle to feed South Africa’s starving children

Shiraaz Mohamed

WORLD HEALTH DAY OP-ED

Let’s wrest control from the commercial marketers and start to really listen to children

Mark Tomlinson
5 mins

CALL TO ACTION

How to reclaim South Africa from the thieves through the Defend our Democracy campaign

Ferial Haffajee
2 mins

REFLECTION

South Africa’s government may be broken but South African people are not

Marianne Thamm
5 mins

HUMAN RIGHTS OP-ED

How female genital mutilation costs Nigeria dearly

Alexandra Willis
5 mins

Global news

Newsdeck

Kremlin says West is to blame for Ukraine grain crisis
Newsdeck

Shakira loses appeal to avoid trial in Spanish tax fraud case
Newsdeck

Ukraine Latest: US Lets Key Waiver on Russia Bond Payments Lapse
Newsdeck

Africa CDC warns on vaccine hoarding amid monkeypox outbreak

YOUTH LENS

Maverick Citizen partners with Unicef for photo project on Covid-19 pandemic through young eyes

Tamsin Metelerkamp

CLIMATE JUSTICE CHARTER OP-ED

The struggle for health and climate justice in South Africa must put people before profits

Natalya Dinat

COVID-19 OP-ED

South Africa needs to establish a Pandemic Preparedness Initiative now

Tim Tucker, Glenda Gray and Ntobeko Ntusi

BATTLE FOR JUSTICE OP-ED

ConCourt’s Andy Kawa judgment a victory for the rights of gender-based violence victims

Sheena Swemmer

Maverick Citizen

World Health Day

Nathi and Africartoons

ECO DISASTER

Desperate land invasions condemn South Africa’s wild lands to ‘death by a thousand cuts’

Tony Carnie

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HEALTH BILL (PART TWO)

NHI will stand or fall on Parliament’s approach to corruption, say civil society bodies

Geetesh Solanki, Neil Myburgh, Stephanie Wild, Judith Cornell and Vishal Brijlal
8 mins

TUESDAY EDITORIAL

Are children dying of hunger and malnutrition viewed as less ‘deserving’ of help?

Estelle Ellis
5 mins

SADC WATCH

New SADC law set to inspire stronger parliamentary committees

Moses Magadza and Clare Musonda
5 mins

FROM THE ARCHIVE: SCIENTISTS COLLECTIVE OP-ED

The incoherent and illogical new government Covid-19 regulations are the real state of disaster

Marc Mendelson, Shabir A Madhi, Jeremy Nel, Glenda Gray, Regina Osih and Francois Venter
11 mins

PRINCIPLED SCHOOLING OP-ED

Education can be the much-needed booster shot in the fight against South Africa’s moral decay

Michele van Eck
4 mins

PRESERVING THE PAST OP-ED

South African History Archive relaunched at Wits

Geraldine Frieslaar
4 mins

FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT

‘Protect human rights defenders working against corruption’, says UN Special Rapporteur

Bongani Ngwenya and Simphiwe Sidu
5 mins

SPOTLIGHT

Mpumalanga healthcare plagued by water shortages and poor security that threatens worker safety

Nthusang Lefafa
6 mins

South African Person of the Year

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Winner: Imtiaz Sooliman of Gift of the Givers; Runners-up: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo & The Vaccinators
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Winner: Dr Emmanuel Taban; Runners-up: Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema & Dr John Nkengasong
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Winner: Spaza shop owners; Runners-up: Wendy Alberts & Busi Mavuso
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Winner: Siya Kolisi; Runners-up: Temba Bavuma & Tatjana Schoenmaker
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Winner: The two doctors who made a Covid breakthrough; Runners-up: Elon Musk & Greta Thunberg

BUSINESS MAVERICK

South Africa

Mike Schussler brought a dose of cheer to the ‘dismal science’ of economics
South Africa

Energy Minister Mantashe takes a swing at mining execs who ‘insult the State’
South Africa

Policy documents reveal how ANC failed to implement key economic strategies over five years
South Africa

Standard Bank’s connection seems unstable — in more ways than one
South Africa

Illegal miners and fouled waterways in Mpumalanga underscore coal’s toxic legacy

MAVERICK CITIZEN

COVID-19

CCMA upholds another dismissal over refusal to vaccinate
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Expert sounds alarm on fifth wave after Covid-19 curve turns upwards in SA
COVID-19

Epidemics in South Africa: Key lessons on mass vaccination drives learnt from history
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Scientists identify high chance of reinfection with Omicron subvariants for unvaccinated
COVID-19

Two years into the Covid disaster, where do we stand?

OUR BURNING PLANET

South Africa

Warning of economic tipping point as parts of Nelson Mandela Bay left dry by water system failure
South Africa

Illegal miners and fouled waterways in Mpumalanga underscore coal’s toxic legacy
South Africa

Lake St Lucia fishers – ‘We just want to fish. Why are they killing us?’
South Africa

KZN flood disaster: ‘Water was quickly rising and I saw that my house would fall’
World

Distraction, Inc — Why Davos delegates are peddling the carbon removal myth

MAVERICK LIFE

Maverick Life

2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence
Maverick Life

Here’s how much sleep you really need for optimal cognition and wellbeing – new research
South Africa

South African makes history as he jumps off Mount Everest and glides into the wild blue yonder
South Africa

Gwede Mantashe is the disciplinarian South Africa needs
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Backyard wonders – our readers’ top holiday picks at home in South Africa

South Africa Votes

2021 Local Elections

South Africa’s construction mafia sets its sights on local government extortion
2021 Local Elections

Joburg’s new mayor is in tune with the city – and you can take that as gospel
2021 Local Elections

Foggers have ‘no role’ in preventing Covid, but IEC is still sending them to all voting stations – at taxpayers’ expense
2021 Local Elections

The filth and the fury: Desperate Makhanda residents obtain court order forcing municipality to clean up the town
2021 Local Elections

Vereeniging brought to its knees by consistent blackouts, sanitation collapse and pollution
2021 Local Elections

South Africa’s political campaign season: The silly, the sillier and the silliest
2021 Local Elections

Cape Town’s youngest mayor yet, but an old DA hand – ‘excited’ Geordin Hill-Lewis is ready for the hot seat

SPOTLIGHT OP-ED

Reframing the right to healthcare in terms of insurance cover is a bad idea

Louis Reynolds
8 mins

OPINIONISTA

Why is learning Afrikaans in school still compulsory after June 16 1976 uprising?

Omphemetse S Sibanda
5 mins

COVID-19 REGULATIONS

A guide to the new Covid rules, what you can and can’t do

Tamsin Metelerkamp
5 mins

GROUNDUP ANALYSIS

Dodgy lotteries — what the SIU can do and why it’s vital that the NPA joins the fray

Nathan Geffen and Tania Broughton
3 mins

GROUNDUP: SERVICE DELIVERY

Poverty prevails in Kliptown — the very place the Freedom Charter was signed

Masego Mafata
4 mins

WAR IN EUROPE

Double trauma for SA students who fled Ukraine as they battle to find university spots at home

Zukiswa Pikoli
4 mins

THE CONVERSATION OP-ED

Rising xenophobic vigilantism in South Africa is reaping the fruits of misrule

Loren B Landau and Jean Pierre Misago
5 mins

BOOK REVIEW

‘On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa’ sets out the urgent need to effectively combat this scourge

Anotida Chikumbu
5 mins

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SCORPIO

South Africa

NPA sting puts two businessmen, top Eastern Cape official in dock over bribe linked to R36m police tender
South Africa

Two Gupta acolytes and ex-Mineral Resources top official arrested over R1,75bn pillaging of mine trust funds
South Africa

Cogta-linked official charged over R160k Digital Vibes ‘kickbacks’
South Africa

Exposed: Zweli Mkhize’s R6m ‘cut’ from PIC’s R1.4bn deal using Unemployment Insurance Fund money
South Africa

Shayne’s World: How R1.8bn in UIF cash vanished in Coast2Coast debt hole

AMABHUNGANE

South Africa

Fuel thieves siphon off millions from Mpumalanga Eskom power station
South Africa

High court ruling involving Zuma’s taxes may alter the ways of South Africa’s democracy
South Africa

Update: My big fat Gupta wedding – the movie
South Africa

Prasa pays R3m to Mbalula’s administrator — just before court culls him
South Africa

The Guptas’ poisonous legacy: How State Capture hobbled Alexkor (Part One)

GLOBAL INVESTIGATIONS

Declassified UK

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper
Declassified UK

REVEALED: The UK military’s overseas base network involves 145 sites in 42 countries
Africa

Cameroon: The corrupt and brutal Central African state is run by five men — with support from the United Kingdom
Declassified UK

Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime
Africa

Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya

SPORTS

Sport

South Africans continue to shine as IPL reaches its business end
South Africa

Little consolation for Sundowns following Champions League disappointment
World

Mbappé deal underlines that power in sport resides with athletes
Sport

Wynberg, Grey College, Paarl Boys flex mid-season muscle
South Africa

Explosive Semenya interview reveals her humiliation over constant scrutiny

TGIFOOD

TGIFood

Charcuterie 101: When a country cooking school came to town
TGIFood

Kingdom of fine herbs
TGIFood

Una Más brings Mezcal craft to the Sea Point strip
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: Gremolata potato wedges
TGIFood

What’s cooking today: All-day oxtail stew

MOTORING

South Africa

The Honda Ballade is back
South Africa

Mercedes-Benz SA launches its premium C-Class sedan — a new baby S-Class
South Africa

Hyundai SA’s all-new high-performance Kona N is guaranteed to make you grin
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The new Porsche 911 GT3 is a simply sensational sports car
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The Bentley Continental GT is unique, and for that you’re going to pay dearly

TOP READS THIS WEEK

Maverick Life

2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence
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A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals
South Africa

Nine Eskom workers suspended for hydrogen explosion at Medupi power station
Maverick Life

Here’s how much sleep you really need for optimal cognition and wellbeing – new research
South Africa

How low can they all go, Mr President? The case of the still unbreakable Mr Mbalula

AFRICA

Africa

Courage, charisma not enough to defeat Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections
Africa

International elephant corridor put at risk by killing of Botswana’s largest tuskers
COVID-19

Covid-19 corruption deepens wounds of pandemic across Africa 
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This is the shiny new bridge that killed the fabled journey to Catembe and the Ponte mercado
Africa

Ugandan troops in Cabo Delgado could ignite powder keg of domestic conflict

Coronavirus

Ukraine Crisis

Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Scholz sharply disagree on Ukraine
COVID-19

Doctors support paediatrician’s account of collapse at Rahima Moosa as Gauteng Health officials push back
COVID-19

A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
COVID-19

SA government’s Covid-19 management in the crosshairs
COVID-19

Covid cases on the decline after short spike in Omicron infection rates – NICD

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords

Crossed Out – 9 January 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 17 September 2021
Crosswords

Crossed Out – 4 September 2021
Crosswords

Jason and John’s test crossword
Crosswords

Crossed Out – TGIF, 8 May 2020

WEBINARS

South Africa

Class half full — SA’s middle-class weathering storms better than doomsday headlines suggest
Webinars

Lack of democratic reform in Eswatini likely to fuel greater unrest – activists
Webinars

Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele: Falling in love while dreaming of a life of racial liberation
Webinars

Fast-food advertising targeting children puts their health and futures at risk, say experts
Webinars

Joining the Dots: Pravin Gordhan, Floyd Shivambu and the dodgy origins of the ‘Indian cabal’ narrative

LOOK & LISTEN

Maverick Life

Our World in Pictures: Week 07 of 2022
Maverick Life

The lyrical and visionary world of Virgil Abloh (1980 – 2021)
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Our World in Pictures: Week 06 of 2022
Maverick Life

This month on your screen: True-crime thrillers, science fiction adventures and photorealistic dinosaurs
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Sex, drugs and rotten trolls: Celebrity gossipers send digital standards down the tubes

In case you missed it

South Africa

Tshwane’s stadium that never was: R140m to build, R84m to demolish
Maverick Life

2022 Cannes Film Festival: On the red carpet, protests highlighting sexual and gender-based violence
South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Exclusive: Gupta legal team exits BDK Attorneys
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A wake-up call for Health Department heads: Children are dying because of horrendous state of our public hospitals

Judiciary in CRISIS

South Africa

‘Fearless and independent’ SA courts hailed for holding the line against Zuma onslaught
South Africa

Judge Hlophe not ‘untouchable’, should not be given ‘free pass’ – full Bench of Gauteng High Court
South Africa

JSC recommends Ronald Hendricks, Denzil Potgieter and Vuyokazi Noncembu for high court positions
South Africa

‘Imperial Presidency the weak link in the Constitution’ — retired Justice Dikgang Moseneke
South Africa

Judge Zondo hauls Lindiwe Sisulu over the coals for ‘unwarranted attack’ on African judiciary

Jacob Zuma

South Africa

SCA Judge President Maya drags her heels on Zuma case, raising eyebrows
South Africa

Judge ‘surprised’, State ‘dismayed’, but absent Zuma scores another delay
South Africa

Better Choices: Can South Africa avoid the perfect and potentially violent gathering storm?
South Africa

Jacob Zuma, Yesterday’s Man of power politics
South Africa

How South Africa can embrace its history rather than disgrace it with a R22m massive flag pole

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