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AFTER THE BELL
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MINERALS & METALS
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OPINIONISTAS
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GROWTH SLUMP
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INVESTMENT BLOCK
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Maverick Citizen
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LEARNING CURVE
How a classroom programme is tackling maths gaps and youth unemployment in SA
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WRONG-FOOTED
Foot in Mouth: Comment by Steenhuisen’s chief of staff leaves ‘bad taste’
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CARTOON
World Cup goals
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CRITICAL GAPS
‘It’s Hollywood’: MPs slam leadership vacuums as higher education sector positions remain unresolved
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FOOD BASKET
Water crisis: floods, drought, and a pricier basket of food
Maverick Earth
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TOXIC AIR
Weather service to lead ambitious R625m plan to monitor SA’s choking air quality
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BOTANICAL GARDENS
Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants
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ROVING REPORTERS
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‘FLEXIBLE’ SYSTEM
Attorneys warn of corruption risks and weaker checks in new environmental impact assessment plan
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BOTANICAL GARDENS
Kirstenbosch — a South African national treasure is going to seed, warn experts
Scorpio
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DERAILED
SARS audit links ex-Prasa boss Lucky Montana to recipient of ‘tall trains’ funds
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SCORPIO
Molefe ‘slush fund’: ATM data links R11m in cash deposits to ex-Eskom boss locations
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VIDEO
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SCORPIO
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NEWSFLASH
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Johannesburg
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BUDGET UNDER SCRUTINY
City manager insists Joburg is financially sound during grilling in Parliament
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OUR CITY NEWS
Joburg residents go 12 days without water after maintenance programme
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JOZI HERO
The Imagination Machine: Meet the teacher building an education revolution with 6 tiny bricks
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GROUNDUP
Joburg won’t name its water tanker suppliers despite spending R650m in five years
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STRAIGHT TALK
Busi Mavuso: If Joburg thrives, SA thrives
Maverick News
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TOXIC AIR
Weather service to lead ambitious R625m plan to monitor SA’s choking air quality
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TEAM GUIDES — GROUP G
Belgium and Egypt lead the chase in Group G; Iran mired in geopolitical tension
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GROUNDUP
Faith leaders in George step in to prevent xenophobic violence
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POLITICAL TANTRUM
Councillor dismisses NMB deputy mayor’s perjury claims as political distraction amid legal troubles
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BUDGET UNDER SCRUTINY
City manager insists Joburg is financially sound during grilling in Parliament
Maverick Life
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THE CONVERSATION
Do carrots really improve your night vision? Six enduring diet myths, debunked
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Backrooms: The horror beneath everyday liminal spaces in Kane Parsons’ debut feature
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THE CONVERSATION
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PHOTO ESSAY
A short crossing: Life along the Xhorha River
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BOOK EXCERPT
Zama Zama: Graham Coetzer digs into the illicit mining underworld
Op-eds
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STUDENT DEBT CRISIS OP-ED
South Africa cannot afford to lock 165,000 graduates out of the economy
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LABOUR MARKET
SA’s skills gap leaves millions unemployed despite job vacancies
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PERSPECTIVES REVISITED
Proposed school history syllabus focuses on Africa as the main story, not a sidebar to Western history
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BUSINESS OF CHANGE OP-ED
How SA made its crisis-busting public-private partnership work is a model for other economies
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POWER PLAY OP-ED
Zambia’s bold debt-for-energy blueprint — a new model for African development
Sports
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TEAM GUIDES — GROUP G
Belgium and Egypt lead the chase in Group G; Iran mired in geopolitical tension
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TEAM GUIDE
Meet the Mexican Fifa World Cup 2026 squad that faces home pressure
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FUNDING GAP
The complex world of anti-doping politics makes it harder to catch cheats
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TEAM GUIDES — GROUP E
Germany and Ecuador should emerge top in Group E that contains minnows Curaçao
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TEAM GUIDES – GROUP F
Japan favourites in tough Group F, with Holland, Sweden and Tunisia
TGIFood
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WHAT’S COOKING
Orange sweet potato and fresh turmeric soup
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TABLE FOR ONE
Old-school style and a lonely grand piano at Level Four
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FRENCH LETTER
A lesson from bees (a tale with a sting)
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DEFENDING JOBURG
Our Jozi is safe! — by people who live, work and play there
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WHAT’S COOKING
AirFryday: Chicken thighs with eccentric accompaniments
Nelson Mandela Bay
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POLITICAL TANTRUM
Councillor dismisses NMB deputy mayor’s perjury claims as political distraction amid legal troubles
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BLOOD AND SORROW
Calls for calm in Nelson Mandela Bay as communities reel from three mass shootings
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NELSON MANDELA BAY
Nelson Mandela Bay: A rubbish budget for one of the ‘dirtiest cities in the world’
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TARIFF BACKLASH
NMB leadership accused of ‘extorting’ ratepayers as controversial budget passes amid service delivery failures
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FINANCIAL BLUES
Fiery exchanges, weekend negotiations and depressing stats as metro scrambles to approve Bay budget
Corrections
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FATAL POLICY ERROR OP-ED
Legalising rhino horn is a deadly mistake, and CITES CoP20 must close the door completely
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Apology: John Steenhuisen
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MAKING A SPLASH
How Bishops rose from contenders to kings of schoolboy water polo
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SARS HELM
From capture to compliance: the Kieswetter turnaround at SARS
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AGE OF ACCOUNTABLITY
Vlakplaas Simelane killers feared Chris Hani investigator Holmes knew of plot to murder witness
Opinion
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OPINIONISTAS
Everything you need to know about offshore wind energy in SA
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OPINIONISTAS
Crunch time for markets as storm clouds gather
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NELSON MANDELA BAY
Nelson Mandela Bay: A rubbish budget for one of the ‘dirtiest cities in the world’
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OPINIONISTAS
Ramaphosa’s migration contradiction: Acknowledging xenophobia while feeding the myth
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OPINIONISTAS
Have a heart for those fellow Africans now desperately fleeing our country
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POLITICALLY AWEH
Hunger is political: Activist Mark Heywood on SA’s food crisis
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MAVERICK NEWS
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POLITICALLY AWEH
Is Cape Town’s N2 wall just a R114m cover-up?
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POLITICALLY AWEH
Why the petrol price exploded and the solution government is blocking
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