Sies, DA! South Africa’s Municipal Services Are Not a Corporate Cash Cow
As South Africa approaches the November 2026 local government elections, the DA is pushing private-sector participation in municipal services as...
From Russia With Love: How Criticising Malema Turned Me Into a Supposed Kremlin Asset
I questioned whether Julius Malema was capitalism's favourite revolutionary, and suddenly I was a Kremlin asset. Apparently, exposing the red-bereted...
Court Refuses to Clear Mbalula as ANC Cash-for-Votes Claim Heads for Cross-Examination
Fikile Mbalula failed to secure an immediate court finding that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s cash-for-votes allegation was false. The Gauteng High Court...
The DA’s Blue Icons: Liberal Masculinity, Political Theology and the Americanisation of South African Propaganda
The side-by-side image reveals the DA’s campaign aesthetic as secular iconography: the blue-lit male leader haloed by party branding, mirroring...
Judith February’s Boogeymen Politics
By Gillian Schutte So here we are. Judith February walks into Daily Maverick with a global crisis in one hand,...
Daily Maverick’s Maneuvers: Manufacturing Russophobia and Afrophobia in South Africa, Namibia and Madagascar
Russian interference or narrative control? A forensic critique of Daily Maverick’s framing, exposing selective evidence, donor influence and the politics...
Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota: The Passing of a Struggle Generation
The death of Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota at the age of 77 marks the passing of another figure from the generation...
The Untouchable Humanitarian: Rethinking Imtiaz Sooliman’s Power, Politics and Shadow Networks
By Sipho Singiswa Sipho Singiswa’s article interrogates the power, politics and public mythology surrounding Gift of the Givers. It traces...
The unbearable nonchalance of being.
By: Lavi Ramphomane In the 21st century, people have more mass communication tools and a bigger audience to make their...
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THE TEMPLE TANTRUMERS
A temple tantrumer is someone whose conscience refuses to remain a spectator to injustice. The expression comes from the biblical...
Sies, DA! South Africa’s Municipal Services Are Not a Corporate Cash Cow
As South Africa approaches the November 2026 local government elections, the DA is pushing private-sector participation in municipal services as...