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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.
1987–present. Website. zapiro.com. Jonathan Shapiro (born 27 October 1958) is a South African cartoonist, known as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions. He is the nephew of British magician David Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas, director of Marvin's Magic.
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 ...
The Constitution of South Africa protects all basic political freedoms. However, there have been many incidents of political repression, [1] dating back to at least 2002, [2] as well as threats of future repression in violation of this constitution leading some analysts, civil society organisations and popular movements to conclude that there is a new climate of political repression [3] [4] [5 ...