‘I’m getting heavy threats’ — cop details messages linked to R286m cocaine consignment www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Farewell, Sisisi Tolashe, you will not be missed. "The seeds of Tolashe’s rise and fall were planted years ago, in a political culture that rewarded loyalty over competence and confused factional muscle with the ability to run things." www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

🔒Constitutional Court weighs impact of Magudumana case on justice system www.businessday.co.za/news/law/202...

🔒Motsoaledi under fire after questioning ConCourt judges’ impartiality in NHI challenge www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Parliament’s Phala Phala impeachment committee — expect much heat but no light www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Anti-immigration marches raise questions over vigilantism, violence and police response www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

🔒DAVID LEWIS | Jewish identity and dissent: On loathing the sophists who present glib and downright false arguments to support genocide. www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...

William Shoki: Some of the world’s wealthiest people have started describing the phrase “tax the rich” as if it were a racial slur, an act of hate speech rather than a policy demand. You do not need to be a revolutionary to sense that something is off here africasacountry.com/list/campaig...

Ramaphosa bets on legal review to stall Phala Phala impeachment proceedings www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Gideon Levy: Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

🔒Pierre de Vos | The Couch, the Court, and the Constitution: SA’s impeachment reckoning www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

NSFAS faces another shake-up as Minister Manamela contradicts his earlier promise www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Can'y wait to see this when I visit next month... Gabrielle Goliath opens exhibit alongside Venice Biennale despite Gayton McKenzie’s bid to cancel her www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

As Somalia makes its first appearance at the Venice Biennale, some Somali artists are questioning who gets to represent the nation — and on whose terms. africasacountry.com/2026/05/on-t...

🤣🤣🤣New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What you need to know before National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams’ court appearance www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

What ANC mayors Morero and Lobishe’s glowing self-reviews say about SA politics www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Half-truths, questionable claims and evasion as Minister Tolashe appears before parliamentary committee www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Herman Lategan's lovely piece about the Garden's Centre and the people he met there: About an interview with Uys Krige at Zerbans, the Long Street Cafe manager whose snake disappeared after a photo shoot, and the emaciated young couple who became famous as Die Antwoord. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wow, amazing story: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🔒Adriaan Basson | From fraud accused to head the R35bn education budget www.news24.com/opinions/col...

🔒At long last… first NHI case kicks off at ConCourt on Tuesday. The court must decide if the public participation process in parliament had been constitutionally adequate. www.news24.com/politics/at-...

Escalating xenophobia in SA sparks diplomatic protests by African nations www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Manamela places NSFAS under administration, board members plan to file court interdict www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

WATCH | Law firms take high-stakes fight over BEE legal code to court www.businessday.co.za/news/law/202...

Apart from the bit about never lying, this is spot on - and brave: I will never join the xenophobic bandwagon - Julius Malema www.politicsweb.co.za/news/i-will-...

Six months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office – according to a new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘The Death Zone’: How Russia Is Luring Africans to Ukraine. A growing number of men across the continent say they are being promised jobs in Russia, only to be forced into the war. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

🔒Judge Elmien Du Plessis argued a final interdict to remove publication or a prior restraint did not only affect the parties before the court, but "it also removes information that citizens have a constitutional interest in receiving, as in this case". www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Joburg rows, swims and stumbles towards 4 November poll www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

SA faces a low-trust, high-risk election as disillusioned voters seek alternatives www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Energy and Water Seta blew R58m in public funds on building that was never used www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

🔒LUKE FELTHAM: Fifa has fumbled football’s core ethos. Infantino's "shallowness was reminiscent of Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as Bruno, claiming to bring peace to the Middle East when he got both sides to concede that "hummus" was actually delicious". www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Hate on parade: Wall-to-wall, largely unquestioning media coverage has legitimised Ngobese-Zuma and Ndlovu as civil society activists. Numerous studies show this is how hatred of foreigners is legitimised and normalised. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

🔒PKTT cop ‘behaved like law didn’t exist’, gets 17 years for R120k bribe. The Political Killings Task Team member and a police spokesperson were among five people sentenced to 17 years for a R120 000 conspiracy to derail a political murder investigation. www.news24.com/southafrica/...

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

Coetzee declined because of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, apparently stating that it is impossible for any part of Israeli society — including the intellectual and artistic communities — to claim it does not share in the guilt for the atrocities in Gaza, www.ynetnews.com/culture/arti...

GroundUp has been raising concerns about the Sunday World’s relationship with the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) as far back as 2019, asking: Does Sunday World want to do journalism or be a defender of corruption? Sefara was editor at the time. groundup.org.za/article/sund...

William Shoki: "What it constitutes is something more revealing: a window into the political condition of a continent where economic stagnation has made elite self-justification a governing art form." africasacountry.com/list/campaig...

🔒Chris Jones takes issue with remarks made by Edwin Cameron at a July 2025 event where he described the decision to close Wilgenhof as "a catastrophic mistake" and attributed it to "deceit, dishonest manipulation, underhandedness and lies". www.news24.com/opinions/col...

🔒Pierre de Vos | Why SAHRC can’t issue binding directives while Public Protector can www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

This Is Not a Murder Mystery: cosy-crime meets art in an irresistibly surreal Belgian drama. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

From Gaza to Venice — Gabrielle Goliath’s feminist breath transcends national censorship www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

Tehran’s embattled Jewish community endures despite Israeli bombing of synagogue. Members of Rafi’ Nia synagogue braved airstrikes to celebrate Passover hours before it was destroyed by Israeli bombs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Thanks for highlighting this Pierre. As you might know there's a campaign working on rent control in Cape Town as one component of inclusive housing www.instagram.com/rentcontrolg...

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

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

Unaccountable 00046: Eric Wood at the centre of a stalled reckoning over Transnet billions www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

“People were sitting around, having fun, living a normal life, while there was genocide happening down the road. And I just couldn’t take that, because when you’re there, you’re complicit. You can’t help it. It doesn’t matter what you think.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...