April 22
South Africa: Freedom Day, Food Justice and Marshalltown Fire Justice Campaign March
New report explores how corruption and discrimination intersect to undermine land rights in South Africa; the Healthy Living Alliance will host a webinar highlighting the grim… Read more »
April 21
South Africa: Reliving the Pandemic - Five New 'Vi-Fi' Novels Inspired By Covid-19
These titles, with themes such as isolation and addiction, introduce readers to a new Covid generation of authors. Read more »
April 18
South Africa: The Ups and Occasional Downs of Learning How to Socialise Well in a Small Town
So you're a fresh incomer to a dorp. What now? How do you socialise with your new tribe? Read more »
April 16
Africa: Confronting the Crisis of Unsafe Medicines in Africa - a Call for Heightened Regulatory Vigilance
African countries, particularly those with lower incomes, are disproportionately affected by the scourge of substandard and falsified medicines. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma's Eligibility for SA's 2024 Election - - a Tangled Web of Legal and Ethical Dilemmas
While the IEC has challenged the Electoral Court's decision to allow former president Jacob Zuma to contest the upcoming elections, the Constitutional Court must mitigate concerns… Read more »
South Africa: Zuma All the Way - 2024 Elections, Meet Stalingrad
While the Constitutional Court has not yet said whether it will hear an application from the Electoral Commission challenging former president Jacob Zuma's eligibility to stand in… Read more »
South Africa: 'It's Going to Get Ugly' - Nafiz Modack's Lawyer Says Witness in Kinnear Murder Trial Made 'Sweetheart Deal' With State
Alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack has denied testimony in the Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear murder case linking him to multiple murders. Read more »
South Africa: Few Rays of Hope As Patients Continue to Suffer Amid Eastern Cape Health Mismanagement Misery
Since the last election five years ago, public health in the province has been beleaguered by leadership turmoil, bad infrastructure, medicolegal claims and financial deficiencies. Read more »
South Africa: UPL's Cleaned Up Water Is 'Safe to Drink' ... but Not for Their Main Consultant, Thanks
Global agrochemicals producer UPL has applied for permission to pre-treat chemically contaminated stormwater before releasing it into a river that flows into the sea next to… Read more »
South Africa: Better to Wait for the Right JSC Candidate Than Merely Rush in Like Fools
When in doubt, do nothing. The recommendation to 'rather wait' has been drifting in and out of my consciousness for a while as people bandy about the pop psychology around… Read more »
South Africa: Angry Polokwane, Seshego Residents Up in Arms Over Water Shortages As Critical Elections Loom
Residents are feeling the pinch as taps run dry in Limpopo's capital and in its biggest township. Read more »
South Africa: Public Sector Unions Want to Strike Over Latest 4.7 Percent Pay Rise Offer
The government's offer to increase the pay of public servants has been rejected by several trade unions as too low. They say it is below the projected consumer inflation rate. Read more »
South Africa: The Continuing Brutality of SA Lives - Not Taken Seriously By Most Major Parties
South Africa has experienced a rise in violence since the last general election, particularly of murders. Voters are demanding action and leaders are spouting rhetoric. Calls for a… Read more »
South Africa: The Right to a Dignified Death - 300 Years Later We Are Still Waiting
Helping suffering people to end their lives remains a crime in South Africa. Now, backed by eight influential doctors, an ethicist goes to the high court with the aim of… Read more »
South Africa: Pick N Pay 'Destroyed Me' - Retailer's Original Black Franchisee Describes Eight Years of 'Torture'
But George Senosha, who no longer has an income, says he isn't going down without a fight. Read more »
South Africa: After the Bell - Why Julius Malema Is the Mirror Image of Donald Trump
Investors do, of course, want certainty. Obvs. What they don't want is the certainty that someone will come and grab their assets. The notion that you will certainly be hit by a… Read more »
South Africa: The EFF's Floyd Shivambu As Finance Minister Would 'Really Spook the Markets'
Although it seems highly unlikely that the EFF deputy president will become finance minister, South Africa would take a financial knock if he did. Read more »
South Africa: Words of Warning and Sobering Reality That Must Hit Home At This Eleventh Hour
Welcome back to Daily Maverick after our 24-hour shutdown. Read more »
South Africa: Investment As Gambling - Financial Nihilism and the Rise of Meme Stocks
Many young people have lost faith and are turning, with alarming recklessness, to increasingly risky financial behaviour. Read more »
South Africa: Leadership, Resilience Is Behind the Success of One Rural School
It is possible for South African schools facing huge challenges to get noteworthy results. Read more »
South Africa: SA Needs to Put Our Waste in the 'Proper' Place, Reduce the Production and Extend Its Value
There is no 'away' to send our waste to. If it's not biodegradable and it's not being recycled, re-used or converted into energy (and most of it isn't), then it goes to landfill or… Read more »
South Africa: Job Promises for Unemployed Doctors After Kwazulu-Natal Protest
KwaZulu-Natal's doctors seeking job posts received some hope when the provincial health department finally relented and committed to advertising new posts. Read more »
South Africa: This Week - Discussions On Basic Income in SA, Joburg Crisis Summit, and Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture
World Haemophilia Day, a special screening of 'Tomorrow's Freedom', and Ndifuna Ukwazi's 12-week political and legal education programme kick off this week. Read more »
April 15
Liberia: Bridge Disaster in Baltimore Gets FBI Criminal Investigation
The US has opened a criminal investigation into what occurred on a cargo ship before it crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and caused it to collapse last month,… Read more »
April 14
Africa: Benylin Paediatric Cough Syrup Recalled in Six Countries Due to Toxic Compound
Two batches of Benylin Paediatric cough syrup, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson before it spun off its consumer health division to Kenvue, have been recalled in South Africa,… Read more »