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CARTOON
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By Zapiro
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BUSINESS MAVERICK
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UPDATED: BUSINESS REFLECTION
After the Bell: Discovery Health gives you another reason to hate your medical scheme
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DE-RISKED SA
EU removes SA and five other African countries from ‘high-risk’ finance list
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PROMPT PREDATORS
Musk’s Frankenstein is coming for your digital dignity
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THRESHOLD TURMOIL
Regulator probe, public uproar spare 16,507 Discovery Health members from R125m billing error
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CREDIBILITY CHASM OP-ED
Eskom’s ‘stayed’ court case shows double game duplicity on electricity trading
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MAVERICK CITIZEN
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LEARNING CURVE
Matric Class of 2025 achieves unprecedented 88% pass rate
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CLASS OF 2025
South Africa’s 2025 matric pass rate hits record 88%, but maths woes and late dropouts temper celebrations
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CLASS OF 2025
Matric 2025 results: All you need to know about release dates, access and next steps
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LIVE UPDATES
Matric results — Historic 88% pass rate for Class of 2025
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LEARNING CURVEBALL
Gauteng schools face crisis with almost 5,000 grade 1 and 8 learners still unplaced
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MAVERICK EARTH
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FEEL THE HEAT
Climate crisis vs job security — how President’s fresh PCC picks aim to calm SA’s just transition jitters
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DIRTBAG OF THE YEAR
Environmental disaster: John Steenhuisen on how to march backwards
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LONELY TITAN
Strangefoot: the last elephant of Knysna — and the hope that refuses to die
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POWER BANK
Coal demand hit record high in 2025, confounding its obituary writers
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ANALYSIS
Botswana’s huge elephant gamble could destroy its ‘conservation reputation’, say scientists
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SCORPIO
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SCORPIO
Inside Collen Mashawana’s ‘political connections’
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AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Exclusive investigation - Collen Mashawana Foundation in ‘fraudulent’ signatures scandal over unpaid workers’ salaries
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VIDEO
Watch – “Forged” Signatures, Unpaid Workers: The Collen Mashawana Foundation Scandal
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AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Forensic experts find massive ‘signatures fraud’ in Collen Mashawana Foundation’s IDT documents
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AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
IDT vows to probe Collen Mashawana Foundation’s ‘signatures fraud’
Johannesburg
MAVERICK NEWS
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WILL FOR PEACE
Iran pulls out of SA’s joint naval exercise amid political tensions
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NEW PROSECUTIONS BOSS
Surprise as Ramaphosa appoints SIU boss Andy Mothibi as SA’s new NDPP
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CENSORSHIP
Gayton McKenzie pulls the plug on SA’s Venice Biennale submission because it alludes to Gaza genocide
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MIXED BLESSING
Kruger National Park evacuates camps as severe weather warnings hit Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
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HOMES RAVAGED
Devastation and heartbreak — Kouga municipality the latest to be gripped by blazes
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AFRICA
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VIDEO
Watch — Why so many South African children are dying of hunger
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SOCCER
Bafana Bafana eliminated from Afcon after falling to Cameroon in Rabat
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POLL POSITIONS
On the campaign trail — the tactics shaping Uganda’s 2026 elections
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ISS TODAY
Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet repression
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DEMOCRACY FOR SALE OP-ED
The high cost of politics enables corruption and fiscal indiscipline in Africa
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OP-EDS
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TRIBUTE
Farewell to a South African hero, Professor Renfrew Christie
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RIGHT OF REPLY
Government is not hiding matric pass rate numbers; the critics are just ignoring them
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GEOPOLITICAL SHIFTS OP-ED
G20: South Africa’s host dilemma amid signals of US hegemony’s decline
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SKINS IN THE GAME OP-ED
Freezing water, a merciless sun, jellyfish and sharks — the enduring Robben Island swim challenge
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LETTER FROM PENNSYLVANIA
How a Pennsylvania rock shelter upended archaeology and changed our understanding of the first Americans
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SPORTS
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TAKING SHAPE
SA20 knockout phase heats up with defending champions MI Cape Town all but out of contention
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MULLIGAN
Koepka’s defection back to the PGA Tour could be a watershed moment in LIV Golf battle
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AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
Mohamed Salah edges closer to breaking his Afcon duck as Egypt set up Senegal semifinal
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CRICKET
Jason Smith has quickly become one of the biggest-hitters in SA
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A FEAST OF SPORT
Your 2026 sporting calendar
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TGIFOOD
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COOKING SHIFT
There are three air fryers in my new kitchen — and no microwave
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WHAT’S COOKING
AirFryday: Shop-bought pepper steak pies in your air fryer
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WHAT’S COOKING
Salad Days: Garlicky roasted baby potato salad
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WHAT’S COOKING
Baked chicken thighs and vegetables with flavours of anise
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WHAT’S COOKING
Salad Days: A different way with coleslaw
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NELSON MANDELA BAY
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DM CONNECT DEBATE
Small Town of the Year Awards: SA’s big winner has been chosen — now you can have your say
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AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Nelson Mandela Bay’s courts brace for high-profile criminal trials in 2026
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URBAN DECAY
Left to rot — NMB metro scrambles to demolish long-abandoned Beachview Resort
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HOMES RAVAGED
Devastation and heartbreak — Kouga municipality the latest to be gripped by blazes
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COASTLINE PLUNDERED
Calm seas, busy poachers as Nelson Mandela Bay’s illegal perlemoen trade sees holiday spike
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TONGUE IN CHEEK
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JUDICIARY IN CRISIS
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JSC TRIBUNAL
Get off your feminist, Western, culturally superior, subjective high horse, Mbenenge’s lawyer tells tribunal
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JSC TRIBUNAL
Retired Judge Bernard Ngoepe compares women’s power to a key for Mercedes Benz and Donald Trump
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PIVOTAL MOMENT
Sexual harassment in the judiciary is a crisis at the Bar and on the Bench
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CROSSWORDS
WEBINARS
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SOUTH AFRICA
Parkrun’s enduring magic – free, fair and the family values behind the movement
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SOUTH AFRICA
Joining the Dots: Pravin Gordhan, Floyd Shivambu and the dodgy origins of the ‘Indian cabal’ narrative
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OUR BURNING PLANET
‘An overwhelmingly emotional experience’ — the rewilding of 120 rhinos
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WEBINARS
A Skewed Debate: Mother tongue education in SA remains a privilege, not a right
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SOUTH AFRICA
Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele: Falling in love while dreaming of a life of racial liberation
LOOK & LISTEN
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MAVERICK NEWS
The Donroe Times: Redi Tlhabi and Tony Karon on America’s return to gunboat diplomacy
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MULTIMEDIA
Watch – ‘Zulu war’ and CIA spy accusations: Inside South Africa’s seismic law enforcement scandal
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MULTIMEDIA
Watch – A historic season for South African cricket, and a legal reckoning for Swimming SA
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MAVERICK NEWS
Watch — Inside South Africa’s billion-rand perlemoen underworld
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MULTIMEDIA
South African rugby in 2025: A year for the history books
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