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Daily Maverick
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Is Cape Town Fast-Tracking a Power-Hungry Data Hub?A golf course became a R3-billion logistics hub. Now it’s set to house two of Cape Town’s biggest data centres. Daily Maverick’s Lindsey Schutters reports on a R100 land-swap, a da…
Manifesto test: DA’s local government plan eyes the private sector, devolving policingThe DA has promised to get rid of corruption in municipalities, ring-fence revenue for electricity and water, and to bring in the private sector to boost many service areas. Let’s…
Manifesto test: The revolution promised, the record questionedThe EFF is consistent on municipalities having to focus on serving the people. Good intentions, all the right words, but what does its track record reveal? Hosted by: Lerato Mut…
SA’s sports funding crisis exposed as athletes pay the priceSouth Africa’s athletes are winning on the world stage, but they’re paying for it out of their own pockets. From R120,000 tournament fees to covering official staff costs, we look…
India’s Mandrax master to Big Five bosses – exposing the who’s who of South Africa’s illicit drug tradeIn 2025 a senior policeman made striking accusations that a drug cartel had infiltrated South Africa’s criminal justice system, politics and private security. This sparked high-lev…
Over 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg bucklingCrumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility inc…
The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card lawKabelo Kgobisa-Ngcaba was the COO of Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications until she entered Parliament as a DA MP. Then she spent more than six months asking questions that helped bu…
‘Spies in America’ – from South African freedom fighter to foreign agentIn June 2026 a retired South African Air Force brigadier general, Portia “Posh” Anyamba, was fined and sentenced in the United States to six months imprisonment after she pleaded g…
Did SAPS Crime Intelligence burgle Marianne Thamm's home?The possible targeting of journalist Marianne Thamm by state intelligence highlights a serious threat to press freedom and democratic accountability in South Africa. Here is the st…
Roads, shops, factories and homes threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out JoburgSinkholes are collapsing major arterial roads, opening inside upmarket residential estates and even beneath shops and factories as illegal miners tunnel under Johannesburg, forcing…
The invisible children: South Africa’s late birth registration backlogImagine growing up in South Africa without any legal proof that you exist. Thousands of children are trapped in a backlog of birth registration applications, leaving them unable to…
Is Kirstenbosch Dying From the Inside?Cape Town’s iconic Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens remain a breathtaking sight, but experts warn the institution behind the beauty is in quiet crisis. Collapsing systems, v…
After the marches: What our reporters saw — and what might happen nextThe marches are done. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis sits down with reporters Lerato Mutsila, Felix Dlangamandla and Naledi Mashishi — fresh off the ground in eThekwini, Joburg CBD…
South Africa’s Anti-Migrant Campaigns: What’s Really Driving Them?South Africa is experiencing its strongest anti-migrant backlash in years. But when we investigated one of the most successful online campaigns driving this movement, we found evid…
Xenophobia, fear and South Africa’s fault linesSouth Africa is confronting one of its most significant waves of xenophobic unrest in years. Rebecca Davis, Victoria O’Regan and Felix Dlangamandla examine the forces driving it, t…
Mondli Makhanya: MK will win eThekwini/DurbanSouth Africa’s political map is shifting fast. Can Helen Zille take Johannesburg? Is the ANC running out of leaders? Why is the DA struggling to broaden its appeal, and is MK set t…
Principal allegedly behind bigoted Facebook posts moves to new Cape Town schoolThe Western Cape Education Department has confirmed that George Gueorguiev, the Kommetjie Primary School principal at the centre of a 2025 hate speech controversy, has been transfe…
Nelson Mandela Bay’s Dodgy Job Ads: Parliament Calls For Criminal ProbeNelson Mandela Bay is under Parliament’s microscope after the Cogta committee called for a criminal investigation into irregular job advertisements posted by the troubled metro. Wi…
The DBE textbook story that South Africa isn’t being toldA once-in-14-years opportunity to put better books in South African classrooms. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis investigated what happened when a group of educators tried to seize i…
The Business of School Sport: Are Children Paying the Price?From R9,500 commercialisation conferences to millions of livestream views, school sport is increasingly being drawn into a professionalised, high-pressure economy. Coaches, psychol…
