𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍1 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍 hermanlategan.substack.com/p/1

𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐊-𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐊: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓 𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑 hermanlategan.substack.com/p/1fa

The workers who feed nine million school children - and earn just R2,300 a month | GroundUp groundup.org.za/article/scho...

When all of this is over, when all the tell-all books have been printed, all the trials concluded, all the people with nothing left to fear by speaking up... we're going to find out it's all been so much worse than we ever thought it was. That the whole thing was absolutely and totally awful.

To steal or not to steal? The reality for many hungry South Africans www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

To the Lighthouse substack.com/home/post/p-...

An Israeli air strike has hit the Al-Baqbouq area north of Tyre in southern Lebanon, sending massive clouds of smoke into the air. The attack left several Syrian workers injured.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...

Opinion: Israel, Tel Aviv and the Pinkwashing Politics of Pride - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online www.mambaonline.com/2026/05/21/o...

Israel seizes 1,000 sq km under Benjamin Netanyahu’s war strategy www.ft.com/content/1c15...

Japan’s loneliness industry gives an early warning to the world www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

For Whom the Bell Tolls substack.com/home/post/p-...

Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗚-𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗔𝗪𝗡 hermanlategan.substack.com/p/e7b

Visionary Maria McCloy ‘hustled like a muthah’ to globally showcase SA's urban culture creativity www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒 substack.com/home/post/p-...

To the US and back: SA’s Prof Willem Hanekom reflects on the joys of science and a career ‘running with opportunities’ • Spotlight www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2026/05/07/t...

THE GARDEN CENTRE: THE MIDDLE-FINGER FROM HELL substack.com/home/post/p-...

Denial is among the most immature and destructive of human traits. Yet it is all around us: Denial of antisemitism Denial of Islamophobia Denial of climate breakdown Denial of democratic breakdown. We should put away childish things and face our monsters.

Journacide: How most of the world looks away while reporters are hunted down www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Essay | I hold AfriSol responsible for reviving the image of my tribe as selfish, racist bullies | News24 www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

Iran vows ‘long, painful’ response if US renews attacks https://aje.news/z44wwz

Complicity and collective guilt — JM Coetzee shuns Jerusalem literary festival www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Iran’s Defence Ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik says the US is “no longer in a position to dictate its policy to independent nations,” adding that Washington should “accept that it must abandon its illegal and irrational demands.” 🔴 More on aljazeera.com

A stone cold South African classic. What a voice.

This case highlights the extreme inequality of the law and its enforcement. "Property" rights - in a lobster - pursued all the way to a police raid & strip searches. But we can do whatever the hell we want to marine wildlife. Take one step back and it all looks mad. theecologist.org/2026/apr/28/...

The Queen of the Night falls silent — legendary soprano Mimi Coertse dies www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

There is no special relationship. There hasn't been one for a very long time, if ever. Instead, there's a parasocial relationship, in which the UK government imagines it's involved in ways the other partner doesn't recognise. States have interests, not preferences. They don't love. They calculate.

REVEALED: Minister Tolashe’s state-funded nanny — and the daughter who took half her salary www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗘 substack.com/home/post/p-...

OPINION | Cape Town mayor ignores the real risks of doing nothing on Inclusionary Housing | News24 www.news24.com/opinions/col...

Justice without fanfare: The life of former KZN High Court judge president Achmat Jappie www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

At The Telegraph, support for Israel is now mandatory www.owenjones.news/p/at-the-tel...

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ok. Who made this? 🤭😅🤣🤣

Since the war on Iran began on Feb 28, Israel has launched near-daily attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, and the occupied West Bank. In that time, Israel killed at least 107 people, permitted only 8% of medical evacuations, and admitted just 20% of aid trucks into Gaza. 🔗: aje.news/u0qdtx | #Infograph

Judge Taswell Papier remembered www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗘𝗗 hermanlategan.substack.com/p/f06

Why Dr Imtiaz Sooliman has been smeared as an Anti-Semite www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

Stephen Lewis, tireless champion for HIV justice, dies at 88 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗦 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Journalists killed in Lebanon seemingly irrelevant to Western readers www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

𝗗𝗨𝗥𝗕𝗔𝗡’𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗔, 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡 hermanlategan.substack.com/p/c8e

Do read my obit on the journalist Terry Bell, a man I greatly admired. Terry Bell, tireless critic of inequality, dies at 84 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Alessandro Talevi and South Africa's thriving opera scene currencynews.co.za/operas-south...

SAJFP rejects the SAZF’s genocide denial and pandering to Trump’s US - South African Jews for a Free Palestine sajfp.org.za/sajfp-reject...