Ramaphosa and decisive is an example oxymoron. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Seems about right.

Helen will be excited by this. Thrilled probably.

This is not good news for this region which, since the end of Apartheid, has enjoyed relative peace and stability.

Just like a lack of prosecutorial will and competence has allowed so many Apartheid criminals to escape justice as they pass peacefully away unpunished, so too with more and more State Capture accused. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Richly deserved accolade for John Steenhuisen aka Dirtbag of the Year. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Just in case you want to know why this spendthrift Minister wants to hijack the resources of the private Healthcare system... Motsoaledi’s 4 trips in 3 months cost taxpayers R5.6 million www.news24.com/politics/mot...

It needs pointing out to the MK Party (and the EFF) that 37/40 seats is not a majority. The point is everyone else, i.e. the majority of voters, don't want you in power, and want their party to work with all the others to keep you out of power. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Delusional if he really believes this. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Just a horrendous blight on the country. Depressingly necessary read.

As someone who feels co-responsible for the bad decision a TV character is about to make, I find the ANC's "it's not us, it's the (ANC led) government" attitude completely nauseating. LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ www.news24.com/politics/liv...

Our talented Minister of Agriculture doing a sterling job cosying up to the hunting lobby; less so on the agricultural front. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

I swear people take slow and stupid pills as they enter the mall. Especially at Christmas time.

Ahhh, there are rhetorical questions, and then are just idioctic rhetorical questions. We have been a full blown mafia state for at least 18 years.

The zero was overly generous.

Very interesting comment on Putin and his future prospects. For those that lived it, the downfall of Apartheid was a crashing economy. It's also how Putin is going to see himself off.

For once South Africa climbing over the fence and standing on the morally right side in the Ukraine war.

The DA not DA-ing so well. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The faux Ministerial outrage is galling. It is on his (and his ANC predecessors') watch that the public health system in South Africa has been annihilated. But NHI... Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Eben Etzebeth's eye-gouging hearing today. In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary prior disciplinary record over 141 test matches. In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme foul play without any prior provocation.

Anything said by Nicholas Crisp and his colleagues at the Delartment of health about the Public Healthcare system being underfunded has zero credibility until they address the fraud, corruption, and poor management crippling it. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

It's been obvious for the longest time that Emurhuleni is a crime scene. One that no doubt includes the Gauteng ANC as a whole. HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...

Pierre de Vos - truth telling for AfriSol members (and their ilk). Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

Johnny Steinberg - truth telling for all South Africans. Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ www.news24.com/opinions/col...

The American government behaving like a third-world warlord.

This comment section is people going: Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud. With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.

Umm, Daily Maverick...🤨 This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades! www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The Democratic Alliance pandering to two revolting special interest groups - right wing Zionists and now the captive lion breeding industry. Just gross. So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Well, behaving sycophantically has its price. As does needing a bailout. It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs. Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Dear John - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again. DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...

Well said @AdriaanBasson.bsky.social - these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in. You left out the odious Ernst Roets though. Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...

Been wondering what was behind @jsteenhuisen decision. Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke. Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture. Maybe it's all three. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Hlophe really not a person who smells of roses. The MK circus really is a 3-ring effort! Hlophe accused of harassing Makhubele, sparks war within MKP www.news24.com/citypress/po...

There is nothing the ANC hasn't poisoned in South Africa. Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Every second headline is ANC cadres' thieving. They are endemically corrupt. All of them. Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m www.news24.com/investigatio...

Never mind the 100 BEE beneficiaries who made R1 trillion. The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount. R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal www.news24.com/investigatio...

Tempted to apply for the fun of it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I still find it completely incomprehensible that the ANC has worked so hard to keep Apartheid crimes unpunished. 58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Hoo-boy, the Trump car crash Presidency really is gathering speed impressively.

He'll be a popular dinner guest in Afriforum circles. Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.

Nobody is surprised that Trump has vandalized an iconic 200 year old historic building. Because why would he not?

The question Americans should be asking is who got the White House ball room contract, how was it awarded, and how much are you paying for it.

Says the person who represents the people who lie compulsively about just about everything.

I underestimated Durban tonight. More like this... Diwali full bore.

Durban tonight.

Looks like more DOGE style cost-cutting to me. Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.

Yes, we are. And we didn't need this tech to achieve it. Just Fox News. Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI. The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Spatial apartheid, school sports coaches, and Durban are the reasons why.

Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.