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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 ...
The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa 's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
12–14 August: 2 policemen, 2 security guards dead. 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 ...
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 is an English-language South African online news publication created in March 2003 by the multinational media company, Blue Sky Publications, and it operates as an online news and lifestyle publication with offices in South Africa and the United Kingdom . The publication started as a London-based broadsheet newspaper aimed at ...
The Gupta family is a wealthy and influential business family from India, with close ties to former South African President Jacob Zuma and his administration. [3] The family's most notable members are the brothers Ajay, Atul, and Rajesh "Tony" Gupta —as well as Atul's nephews Varun, [4] and US-based Ashish and Amol. [5]
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]
The Daily Maverick published an editorial questioning why public officials received generous protection details whilst witnesses who blow the whistle on serious acts of corruption, like Deokaran, received no protection thereby raising questions about the South African government's commitment to fighting corruption in South Africa. Following her ...