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South Africa grants Putin diplomatic immunity for BRICS summit
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Intelligence reports obtained by Daily Maverick link two senior members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet to four criminal cartels operating inside Eskom. Although we cannot yet reveal the name of the Cabinet ministers for legal reasons, we can .
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From degree to internship to unemployment – the life of a black graduate By Zipho Majova.
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McKenzie on Expropriation Act: President ‘stabbed us in the back’
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‘I don’t think we are ashamed of importing gas from Russia. We are members of BRICS. We want to increase trade with Russia,’ the minister of mineral and petroleum resources told Parliament.
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SA PERSON OF THE YEAR.Winner: Imtiaz Sooliman of Gift of the Givers; Runners-up: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo & The Vaccinators
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BREAKING: ‘Land scam kingpin’ – Deputy President David Mabuza named as top suspect in organised crime complaint
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1/ Earlier today (Wednesday, 23 August), Daily Maverick published a story about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's refusal to leave his aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force Base because the South African government had only sent a Cabinet minister to officially welcome him.
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NAIROBI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A second day of air strikes against the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed 10 people on Wednesday, hospital officials said, while local forces accused troops from neighbouring Eritrea of again joining the .
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Office of Joburg mayor gets electricity and water cut off for non-payment
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The EFF has been silent since Pauli van Wyk challenged the party to a debate in front of a judge.
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US is punishing SA ‘for supporting Palestine’, says Malema
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You can’t kill the truth.
We are still cruising nicely, bana ba baloi are not happy. Go for kill fighters, hit hard. .
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Lottery secretary resigns after pocketing about R6m while on suspension
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Has Russia turned on South Africa over the land issue?
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AfriForum’s claim of 142 race-based laws in SA does not stand up to even cursory examination
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Steenhuisen’s R2.8m blue light SUVs spark backlash
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Paediatrician Dr Tim De Maayer’s open letter to Health Department heads: ‘How do you manage to come to work every day, fail at your job of ensuring basic healthcare for the people you serve and still sleep at night?’
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ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS: Timing of allegations against Mayor Chris Pappas suggests ANC is panicking in KZN
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The EFF leaders each received millions through a money laundering scheme – funds they used to prop up their glitzy lifestyles, their families, their businesses and their political aspirations.
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‘The days of ‘system offline’ need to come to an end, because I want to be the Minister of ‘System Online’,’ says Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.
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Reset relationships within GNU, or we will leave, says DA's Steenhuisen
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SCORPIO: VBS bank heist: EFF's family ties and moneyed connections By Pauli Van Wyk @PaulivW.
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HOME AFFAIRS: Wholesale review of immigration regimen may see SA (temporarily) exit UN convention on refugees
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A Sovereign Wealth Fund will redistribute wealth and stimulate the economy. BY FLOYD SHIVAMBU @FloydShivambu
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The Miss South Africa event at the weekend was an exercise in hypocrisy — by the politicians who bullied a young woman; the Home Affairs Ministry, which stoked the fires of prejudice; and the organisers of the pageant, who surely enjoyed the publicity .
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SA PERSON OF THE YEAR.Winner: Imtiaz Sooliman of Gift of the Givers; Runners-up: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo & The Vaccinators
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SCORPIO.Floyd Shivambu’s brother quietly pays back R4.55m, admits he received the VBS money gratuitously .By PAULI VAN WYK @PaulivW
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Why is the world turning its eyes from the plight of Africans, including the merciless killings in Tigray? One would have expected the African Union and other regional bodies to do more to prevent the hundreds of thousands of lives being lost in Ethiopia.
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HAZARDOUS DRIVE: Google Maps will no longer direct visitors through Cape Town township after attacks on motorists
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SCORPIO.Exposed: Zweli Mkhize’s R6m ‘cut’ from PIC’s R1.4bn deal using Unemployment Insurance Fund money By PIETER-LOUIS MYBURGH @PLMyburgh
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2020 Presidential Election: Tanzania, a nation at the crossroads
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Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson calls for lifestyle audits of senior IDT execs amid R836m oxygen plant scandal exposed by Daily Maverick’s Scorpio. @PLMyburgh
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Congratulations to our very own @PaulivW for winning the 2020 journalist of the year & investigative journalism category award for “Cruising Nicely on VBS Money" & the 2020 South African Story for her body of work at the #SBSJA20 @SikuvileAwards! @Publishers_SS @StandardBankZA
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The high court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma tried to abuse court processes by privately prosecuting the lead prosecutor in his case and a journalist. He has been ordered to pay both their legal fees.
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Editorial: Stealing from your own people is a crime; stealing during the pandemic is a crime against humanity
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The confirmation that South Africa’s navy is going to exercise with its Russian and Chinese counterparts next month is as immoral as it is plain stupid and impractical. It highlights just how far SA has strayed from its relationships with Western .
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The former ANC spokesperson and Jacob Zuma’s number-one cheerleader is synonymous with unashamed hypocrisy and venal dishonesty, and is deserving of Daily Maverick's Moegoe Lifetime Achievement award 2022.
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AGE OF ANARCHY: Unlikely heroes: Taxi drivers come to the rescue of Eastern Cape businesses
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South Africa: BREAKING: Pick n Pay founder Raymond Ackerman has died
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Pretoria Girls High SGB sues Gauteng education department
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Maverick Citizen Op-Ed: Zimbabwe is on fire but is the world listening?
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SCORPIO EXCLUSIVE.R1m from Digital Vibes deal bankrolled hair salon, nail boutique for Minister Zweli Mkhize’s son, daughter-in-law .By Pieter-Louis Myburgh @PLMyburgh
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NEWSFLASH: Trevor Manuel: SA’s lockdown rules do not pass test of rationality
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SCORPIO.Exposed: Digital Vibes bankrolled maintenance work at Zweli Mkhize property; R300k paid to minister’s son .By Pieter-Louis Myburgh @PLMyburgh
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South Africa’s top university has lost almost half its senior leadership team over the past four years. The body supposed to act as watchdog for the institution, the UCT Council, is described as increasingly toxic, with accusations of racism and claims .
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Two years have passed since we published the first in a series of Daily Maverick exposés on the Department of Health’s R150m Digital Vibes contract. There have been no high-level arrests or prosecutions, despite strong evidence linking Zweli Mkhize and .
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The DA is marching to Luthuli House to protest against power cuts. Follow developments here: (📽️ @fdlangamandla)
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Fikile, do you remember the tears you shed over the Guptas? By TREVOR MANUEL
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Intelligence reports obtained by Daily Maverick link two senior members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet to four criminal cartels operating inside Eskom. This is the story of how they steal from and destroy the infrastructure meant to be keeping .
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9/ Despite these attempts and subsequent denials by Deputy President Paul Mashatile's office, Daily Maverick stands by its story and will continue to report on developments, Brkic said.
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3/“Several hours ago, the site suddenly went down. We picked it up very quickly and started identifying a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We investigated and found it was coming from a whole host of Indian servers,” said Daily Maverick’s security coordinator.
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Instead of hiking VAT, recover trillions looted in State Capture
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10/ Daily Maverick has been investigating ways to make the article accessible to India but the attack is so large, it’s proving difficult.
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7/ Commenting on the attack Daily Maverick Editor-in-Chief, Branko Brkic said: “It was obvious that the purpose of this attack is to deny the people of India access to this story as no attempt was made to hide the source of the attack. ".
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has dropped a bombshell by announcing that the government has decided to push on and pull out of the ICC.
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2/ Since publishing, Daily Maverick has been subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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A London court has ruled that Michael Lomas, charged in connection with an allegedly corrupt R745m Kusile Power Station contract, can be extradited to SA after authorities persuaded the court they could monitor his mental health issues.
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EDITOR’S REPLY.Dear Minister Mbalula, trust is earned – and you have failed that test too many times By BRANKO BRKIC @brankobrkic
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NEWS UPDATE.BREAKING: UCT to suspend Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng.By REBECCA DAVIS @becsplanb
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SCORPIO.Ace Magashule’s sons each bag a Free State Covid-19 contract By Pieter-Louis Myburgh @PLMyburgh
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Roman Cabanac still in the job two months after Steenhuisen told him to go
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Cyril Ramaphosa has completely changed the ANC. The broad church has gone. The class project is over. He has freed the ANC to become a middle class, pro-business party of all races.
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Head of AfriForum’s private prosecution unit, Advocate Gerrie Nel, said the unit would monitor progress on the case, and ‘take steps if the authorities fail to act’.
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South African sailor Kirsten Neuschäfer of Gqeberha has rewritten the history books by becoming the first woman to win the solo Golden Globe Race – a journey around the world reliant on no use of modern technology while navigating the globe’s temperamen.
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No one in South Africa has died from getting a Covid-19 vaccine, shows a new report from medicine regulator the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority.
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President Ramaphosa showers Xi Jinping with attention, while a miffed Modi refuses to get off his plane #BRICSSummit2023
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We have in the last few minutes established the origin of the payment to @PauliVW account was a legitimate award payment. We stand, however, by our invite to EFF to firmly state that the targeting of journalists is criminal and unacceptable.
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The DA has confirmed that Renaldo Gouws attended the party’s induction meeting despite being suspended from all party activities over racist and homophobic videos.
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Rape survivor Alison Botha’s attackers back behind bars after parole revoked by minister
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Wayde van Niekerk:. 100m - 9.94.200m -19.84.400m - 43.03. And now 300m 30.81 . Superlative. 🇿🇦
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SCORPIO: Zweli Mkhize’s ‘family friend’ and ex-private secretary pocket Covid-19 cash via R82m Department of Health contracts
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BREAKING.First ‘Zondo arrests’: Hawks nab businessman Edwin Sodi, former top officials over Ace Magashule-linked asbestos deal .By Pieter-Louis Myburgh @PLMyburgh
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8/ ". This left us with no option but to block the entire domain of India to protect the integrity of the site.".
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4/ A DDoS attack is described as a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, network or website by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic.
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A CT woman kidnapped on 20 September 2024 while heading to Umngazi Resort in Port St Johns was found alive on Thursday when her kidnappers dropped her and another woman, abducted three days earlier, at the Sulenkama Police Station in the EC:
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NEW ZAPIRO: Mkhwebane’s Mess. Get the cartoons before anyone else, sign up to the @zapiro newsletter
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SCORPIO:.Zweli Mkhize’s ‘family friend’ and ex-private secretary pocket Covid-19 cash via R82m Department of Health contracts .By Pieter-Louis Myburgh @PLMyburgh
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In 2006, Zweli Mkhize’s wife got a R11.84m farm loan from Ithala. By mid-2020, the loan balance still hovered at R10.56m. It had hardly been touched. @PLMyburgh Scorpio’s latest offering asks if political elites had plundered Ithala, and to what extent.
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BOSASA WHISTLE-BLOWER.‘They tried to kill me. Twice’ – up close and personal with Angelo Agrizzi in ICU .By Melinda Ferguson @melindaSMACKED
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From 1 January 2023, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans and their children will no longer be able to live, work and go to school legally in South Africa.
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PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2023: SA Person of the Year: The humble Springboks captain Siya Kolisi
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The gang leader ‘Navara’ — linked to the slaughter of numerous rhinos in Kruger National Park — has been sentenced to spend the next 27 years in a Mozambican prison.
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Amabhungane: Firm that won R1bn Joburg fleet contract paid Malema-EFF ‘slush fund’ By amaBhungane.
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SA PERSON OF THE YEAR : Winner: Imtiaz Sooliman of Gift of the Givers; Runners-up: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo & The Vaccinators
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6/ He said the attack was ongoing but Daily Maverick had implemented a firewall to temporarily block Indian traffic, to protect its site.
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The Independent Panel looking into the Phala Phala matter has failed to deliver a report of the necessary impeccable quality and credibility. For the President to leave office on the basis of this flawed report would be plainly unjust and, moreover, .
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FOREIGN RELATIONS: US senators drop plans to mandate immediate review of SA’s eligibility for Agoa
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The EFF has been silent since Pauli van Wyk challenged the party to a debate in front of a judge.
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In terms of reader votes, Geordin Hill-Lewis won the person of the year by far, which is an indication of how much Cape Town DM168 readers appreciate the early efforts of their young mayor.
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The decision by ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba to enter into a deal with the ANC in Joburg is a betrayal of his many promises over the years and an illustration of the difficult political spot he is in. While ActionSA made impressive progress in its .
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SCORPIO: The Great VBS Heist: How the Shivambu brothers benefited even more By Pauli Van Wyk @PaulivW
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OPINIONISTA: I’m an unemployed doctor, like many medical peers, despite SA’s health skills shortage
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Former Eskom chief executive André De Ruyter will appear before Parliament next week – but while the committee will meet in person, De Ruyter will participate virtually.
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In the latest push to bar undocumented foreign nationals from South Africa — especially Zimbabweans — the Patriotic Alliance is taking the Department of Home Affairs to court for its extension of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit. The party says this is .
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