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Daily Maverick. Daily Maverick is a South African online news publication and weekly print newspaper, with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. [1] [2] [3] It claims to have a readership of approximately 10 million readers per month. [4] It was founded in 2009 by Branislav Brkic, who is also the Editor-in-Chief of the publication, and Styli ...
His blog posts are simultaneously published on the Daily Maverick website. He is a regular media commentator on political and legal events in South Africa and has appeared on SABC and e.tv programmes, various South African radio stations, and on the BBC World Service and CNN International.
Journalist, broadcaster, author, stand-up comedian. Employer. Daily Maverick. Marianne Thamm (born 12 March 1961) is a South African journalist, author and stand-up comedian. She is the assistant editor of the Daily Maverick and has written several books. In 2016, she released the memoir, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me.
South African. Alma mater. University of the Witwatersrand. Ferial Haffajee (born 20 February 1967) [1] [2] is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. Haffajee was editor of City Press newspaper from July 2009 until July 2016 and was previously the editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper. Haffajee was awarded the 2014 International ...
The South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement is a social movement with branches in Durban, Grahamstown and Limpopo Province [1] in South Africa. It is often referred to as the Unemployed People's Movement or UPM. The organisation is strongly critical of the ruling African National Congress government. [2]
The Marikana massacre was the killing of thirty-four miners by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on 16 August 2012 during a six-week wildcat strike at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana near Rustenburg in South Africa's North West province. The massacre constituted the most lethal use of force by South African security forces against ...
South Africa’s energy crisis or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki's second term as president, and continues to the present.
Shack fires in South Africa. Fire is a serious hazard in shack settlements in South Africa. [1] It has been argued that "On average in South Africa over the last five years there are ten shack fires a day with someone dying in a shack fire every other day." [2] In 2011, 151 were reported to have been killed in shack fires in Cape Town. [3]