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#110
Tuesday · 7 min
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 data centre reclassified as a “warehouse”, and the environmental assessment that’s been pushed down the road.
#109
August 20 · 16 min
Manifesto test: DA’s local government plan eyes the private sector, devolving policing
The 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 assess its manifesto.
#108
August 19 · 12 min
Manifesto test: The revolution promised, the record questioned
The 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?
#107
August 17 · 5 min
SA’s sports funding crisis exposed as athletes pay the price
South 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 into why national teams are forced to crowdfund while big-budget spending happens elsewhere. Daily Maverick’s Annemieke Thomaidis explains.
#106
August 13 · 5 min
India’s Mandrax master to Big Five bosses – exposing the who’s who of South Africa’s illicit drug trade
In 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-level law enforcement suspensions and arrests, totally reconfiguring the country’s policing. This unprecedented crisis runs much deeper, though, and has been decades in the making. Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley reports.
#105
August 12 · 3 min
Over 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling
Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility increasingly unable to cope with a localised crisis that councillors warn is sliding out of control. Daily Maverick’s Anna Cox reports.
#104
August 3 · 13 min
The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card law
Kabelo 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 build a campaigning case for two of its clients. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.
#103
August 3 · 4 min
‘Spies in America’ – from South African freedom fighter to foreign agent
In 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 guilty to being a foreign agent for South Africa. She’d apparently monitored certain events, secretly on behalf of officials from this country. Anyamba, it turns out, has a fascinating history that spans several countries and includes resistance to the apartheid regime. Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley explains.
#102
July 27 · 4 min
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 story.
#101
July 16 · 4 min
Roads, shops, factories and homes threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out Joburg
Sinkholes are collapsing major arterial roads, opening inside upmarket residential estates and even beneath shops and factories as illegal miners tunnel under Johannesburg, forcing businesses and residents to spend small fortunes on emergency repairs and temporary infrastructure just to keep operating. Daily Maverick’s Anna Cox reports.
#100
July 16 · 4 min
The invisible children: South Africa’s late birth registration backlog
Imagine 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 access the documents they need and forcing their caregivers into a lengthy bureaucratic struggle. This is the hidden cost of being invisible to the state. Daily Maverick’s Tamsin Metelerkamp reports.
#99
July 7 · 4 min
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, vanishing expertise, and suffocating red tape are undoing what generations built. Daily Maverick’s Don Pinnock explains.
#98
July 1 · 15 min
After the marches: What our reporters saw — and what might happen next
The marches are done. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis sits down with reporters Lerato Mutsila, Felix Dlangamandla and Naledi Mashishi — fresh off the ground in Durban, Joburg CBD and the Garden Route — to ask the talk about the day and ask the question: what happens now, in the townships and villages, when no one will be watching?
#97
June 29 · 13 min
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 evidence suggesting its real motivations may not be what supporters believe. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.
#96
June 26 · 13 min
Xenophobia, fear and South Africa’s fault lines
South 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, the human impact and the questions hanging over the days ahead.
#95
June 23 · 26 min
Mondli Makhanya: MK will win eThekwini/Durban
South 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 to dominate KZN? Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee and Mondli Makhanya unpack the race for Joburg, coalition politics, and the major political realignments reshaping South Africa.
#94
June 22 · 8 min
Principal allegedly behind bigoted Facebook posts moves to new Cape Town school
The 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 transferred to a deputy principal post at Simon’s Town School. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.
#93
June 12 · 26 min
Nelson Mandela Bay’s Dodgy Job Ads: Parliament Calls For Criminal Probe
Nelson 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. With no permanent city manager in place and a growing leadership vacuum, MPs are demanding accountability over who authorised the suspicious hiring process — and why it was allowed to proceed unchecked.
#92
June 12 · 10 min
The DBE textbook story that South Africa isn’t being told
A 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 it — and who is driving the narrative against them.
#91
June 11 · 3 min
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, psychologists and parents say its educational and developmental purpose is being displaced by performance and profit, while legal experts warn that children risk being reduced to unpaid entertainers in a rapidly expanding youth sports industry. Daily Maverick’s Takudzwa Pongweni reports.

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