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Inside the South African drug deal that exposed an alleged Afghan trafficker and his ‘Taliban ties’
Broke, divided and barely visible: the ANC limps towards 4 November
AI Risks and AI Hype: Two Daily Maverick Journalists Debate
Cape Town Planning Tribunal Agreed With Officials Almost Every Time
Swimming SA to Pay Tatjana Smith Interest, Faces Scrutiny Over Kit's Deal
Prasa’s R5.6bn Siyangena scandal demands NPA action
Inside Sassa’s grant review: Queues, outages, suspensions
Declassified document shows ANC were favourable to offering indemnity to apartheid-era crimes
Inside NSFAS boss Mathebula’s R110,000-plus spending
Is Cape Town Fast-Tracking a Power-Hungry Data Hub?
Manifesto test: DA’s local government plan eyes the private sector, devolving policing
Manifesto test: The revolution promised, the record questioned
SA’s sports funding crisis exposed as athletes pay the price
India’s Mandrax master to Big Five bosses – exposing the who’s who of South Africa’s illicit drug trade
Over 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling
The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card law
‘Spies in America’ – from South African freedom fighter to foreign agent
Did SAPS Crime Intelligence burgle Marianne Thamm's home?
Roads, shops, factories and homes threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out Joburg
The invisible children: South Africa’s late birth registration backlog
Is Kirstenbosch Dying From the Inside?
After the marches: What our reporters saw — and what might happen next
South Africa’s Anti-Migrant Campaigns: What’s Really Driving Them?
Xenophobia, fear and South Africa’s fault lines
Mondli Makhanya: MK will win eThekwini/Durban
Principal allegedly behind bigoted Facebook posts moves to new Cape Town school
Nelson Mandela Bay’s Dodgy Job Ads: Parliament Calls For Criminal Probe
The DBE textbook story that South Africa isn’t being told
The Business of School Sport: Are Children Paying the Price?
POWER CHAT: They Never Gave Up: Families Fight for Justice Over Apartheid-Era Atrocities
Inside the Madlanga Commission
Mounting evidence suggests Mexican cartel activity in Mzansi
Joburg’s Upper Houghton mansions ‘now slumlord dumps’
Julius Malema – Conviction, Sentencing, and the Battle for the JSC
‘Bailout is not part of our strategy’ — CEO Matshela Seshibe on SAA’s turnaround
Unpaid Winners and a Race in Crisis: The Soweto Marathon Fallout
Are hackers holding our local government to ransom?
Ramaphosa bets on legal review to stall Phala Phala impeachment proceedings
Second Cabinet minister implicated in Chinese SUV scandal
Is your money really safe? South Africa’s invisible crime wave
Minister Sisisi Tolashe’s Undeclared Luxury SUVs
Somebody didn't care: how Grey's Hospital's failing air con became a surgical emergency
Meet the Nigerian mega pastor shouting hallelujah after bidding to buy iconic Cape Town building
How R11m in ATM cash deposits followed Brian Molefe
Inside the US–Israel War on Iran - and What It Means for Africa
Ep 73How Cape Town's municipal bills are outrunning its middle-class residents
Cape Town homeowners who do not qualify for income-linked rebates are paying municipal bills that have significantly outpaced inflation and salary increases over the past decade as a result of spiralling property valuations and a wave of fixed charges that did not exist 10 years ago. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains. Reporting by: Rebecca Davis Edited by: Anda Tolibadi Filmed by: Joel Seboa Produced by: Emilie Gambade Creative lead: Malibongwe Tyilo Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn Read more: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/artic... https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/artic... https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/artic... Support journalism that protects democracy. Become a Maverick Insider. https://tinyurl.com/SupportDailyMaverick You can find us on Instagram here: On TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymavericksa Or on Twitter here: https://x.com/dailymaverick Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 72From Real Housewives fame to real ‘shoplifting’ arrest infamy
South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen revelled in the limelight. Melany featured on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Pretoria. And Viljoen styled himself as a legal eagle. But all wasn’t as it seemed. The couple perpetuated the lie that there is a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, with Afrikaners being violently targeted. So they moved to the US, where they were arrested on shoplifting charges. Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley explains. Reporting by: Caryn Dolley Edited by: Joel Seboa Filmed by: Joel Seboa Produced by: Emilie Gambade Creative lead: Malibongwe Tyilo Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn Read more: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-03-12-the-viljoens-from-real-housewives-fame-in-sa-to-us-shoplifting-bubbly/ Support journalism that protects democracy. Become a Maverick Insider. https://tinyurl.com/SupportDailyMaverick Subscribe to Daily Maverick YouTube channel. @dailymaverickchannel Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 71Mayor or DA Leader? Geordin Hill-Lewis on Cape Town, the GNU & Why He’s Staying Put
Daily Maverick’s Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee puts the hard questions to Cape Town's Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, on inequality, the DA leadership race, and what a functional city actually means. Hosted by: Ferial Haffajee Guest: Mayor of Cape Town Geordin Hill-Lewis Edited by: Joel Seboa Produced by: Emilie Gambade & Joel Seboa Original Theme Music & Design by: Bernard Kotze You can listen to the podcast everywhere, including Spotify! Support journalism that protects democracy. Become a Maverick Insider. https://tinyurl.com/SupportDailyMaverick Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 70Mkhwanazi vs McBride: Clashing claims tear South Africa’s security apart
Two competing narratives have emerged since KwaZulu-Natal police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi alleged in July 2025 that a cartel had penetrated South Africa’s criminal justice system, politics, and private security. Either he is exposing a national crisis, or he is deflecting from his own alleged misconduct. Daily Maverick's Caryn Dolley explains. Reporting by: Caryn Dolley Edited by: Joel Seboa Filmed by: Joel Seboa Produced by: Emilie Gambade Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme Support journalism that protects democracy. Become a Maverick Insider. https://tinyurl.com/SupportDailyMaverick Subscribe to Daily Maverick YouTube channel. @dailymaverickchannel Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep 69The wheeling and dealing behind South Africa’s AI factories
South Africa is in the grip of an infrastructure supercycle, but it isn’t roads or rails. It is the rise of the AI Factory, windowless fortresses consuming small cities worth of power. Reporting by: Lindsey Schutters & Tony Carnie Edited by: Anda Tolibadi Filmed by: Joel Seboa Produced by: Emilie Gambade Creative Lead by: Malibongwe Tyilo Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn Support journalism that protects democracy. Become a Maverick Insider. https://tinyurl.com/SupportDailyMaverick Subscribe to Daily Maverick YouTube channel. @dailymaverickchannel Read more: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/artic... https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/artic... Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.