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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 14.5 million unique website visits per month in 2024. [4] It was founded in 2009 by Branislav Brkic, who was also its Editor-in-Chief of the publication, and ...
Richard Poplak is a Jewish, Johannesburg-based South African author, journalist and film maker who focuses on corporate criminality, race and equity issues.. He is the author of the 2011 graphic journalistic novel Kenk: A Graphic Portrait about notorious Toronto bike thief Igor Kent. [1]
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 ...
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 Press Freedom Award ...
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.
Zwelini Lawrence Mkhize (born 2 February 1956) is a South African medical doctor and politician who served as the Minister of Health from May 2019 until his resignation on 5 August 2021. He previously served as the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs from 2018 to 2019. Before that, he was the fifth Premier of KwaZulu ...
1975–1990: Albert Tertius Myburgh (26 December 1936 – 2 December 1990) was a South African journalist and editor, best known as editor of the Sunday Times. Myburgh resigned as editor of the Sunday Times in September 1990 after 15 years. His next role was to be an ambassador to Washington or London.
There have been many political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa. [1] [2] In 2013 it was reported that there had been more than 450 political assassinations in the province of KwaZulu-Natal since the end of apartheid in 1994. [3] In July 2013 the Daily Maverick reported that there had been "59 political murders in the last five ...