Ethics company told to pay back Lottery money groundup.org.za/article/lott...

“Ethics” company applied to gag GroundUp. ProEthics filed an urgent court case to stop GroundUp reporting on its questionable R28-million procurement with the National Lotteries Commission. groundup.org.za/article/ethi...

He needs psychiatric help: Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Public Statement: The Selection Committee for the South African Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, 2026. “The termination of the project proposed for the South African Pavilion constitutes an abuse of executive authority.” artthrob.co.za/2026/01/08/p...

No comment necessary: "I cannot be party to silencing writers so, with a heavy heart, I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW.... Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you." Louise Adler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Act of family vengeance’: French defamation case highlights perils of writing autofiction. Complaint against Cécile Desprairies over Nazi collusion novel alleges that ‘resentment permeates the entire work’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Patients wait four hours for an ambulance in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Rural hospitals’ allocated ambulances park 130 to 150km away. groundup.org.za/article/ambu...

Gayton McKenzie pulls the plug on SA’s Venice Biennale submission because it alludes to Gaza genocide www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

‘Suddenly the inner thoughts of power are projected onto the screen in everyone’s hand – all the drivelling banalities, the selfishness, the contempt for others, the lack of interest in anything the world has to offer except personal gain.’ T.J. Clark on Trump. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Under a barrage of lies about Afrikaners, here’s the truth about proud and resilient South Africans. Amid dis- and malinformation, the majority of South Africa’s beautiful people have decided to improve and build and reimagine our broken country together. www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

🔒MK Party councillor among key suspects named in R161 million UIF fraud scandal www.news24.com/southafrica/...

All of the deadly US strikes on alleged drug boats are murders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pints and powerpoints: From IMF history to astrophysics, Nairobi’s Drunken Lectures turn casual drinkers into an engaged public. africasacountry.com/2025/12/pint...

Calibri is very ugly though. And Times Roman is rather dull….. At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

The Man Reweaving South Africa’s Story. Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather than hide from them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...

🔒Paul Mashatile refused to answer questions about his relationship with alleged fraudster Louis Liebenberg, who gifted his wife a diamond. www.news24.com/politics/dod...

🔒Adriaan Basson | Chess moves are made in ANC, DA succession battles www.news24.com/opinions/col...

🔒NDPP hopeful Simelane cries victim, blames Mbeki, Ginwala, Mabandla in disbarment battle www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana & Dr Jonty Cogger: Why the DA’s proposed race-neutral Public Procurement Amendment Bill misses the point www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

Joburg has 4,000 insourced guards but spends R16m a month on private security, fuelling suspicions that politically connected contractors are benefiting from repeated emergency extensions – and the City refuses to comment. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Police identify three ‘persons of interest’ in killing of whistleblower Marius van der Merwe www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The stage was washed in the sort of gold lighting that flatters no one but suggests importance; and three heads of state were positioned behind color-coded podiums that looked borrowed from a daytime game show. africasacountry.com/list/campaig...

Vermeule resembled an American tourist rummaging through a European intellectual antiquities store, picking out a little natural law from Aquinas, some Roman materials from a dark corner; then resold the resulting bricolage under the label ‘classical’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

🔒Qaanitah Hunter: The ANC: Addicted to diagnosis, allergic to treatment. Once again, the ANC finds itself trapped in a minimalistic moral framework where avoiding criminal charges is considered enough to qualify one for major leadership responsibilities. www.news24.com/opinions/col...

Nhlanhla Nene's sacking 10 years on — remember, remember the ninth of December www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

‘Boundless love’ — Will mercenary scandal strain the bond between Zuma and Duduzile? www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Despite Said’s warning, the American media continues today to fan the flames of othering hate, applying fatalistic narratives to well-documented political struggles. This is most recognizable in the framing of the Palestinian genocide. africasacountry.com/list/campaig...

🔒EXPLAINER | Men recruited for Russia’s war: Links between Zuma-Sambudla and Mantula? www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Madlanga hearing told Ekurhuleni failed to act on metro police rape and corruption claims www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Charismatic churches in court to fight attempt to ‘decimate freedom of religion in South Africa' www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

🔒Phaahla slams ‘hogwash’ claims of ANC plot to oust Ramaphosa www.businessday.co.za/politics/202...

🔒Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

🔒Research by renowned economist Charles Feinstein "revealed how South Africa plummeted from relative prosperity in 1913 - when it was richer than Japan and South Korea - to economic catastrophe by 1994." www.news24.com/opinions/col...

🔒KZN Hawks head implicated in leaking SAPS info to benefit ‘brother’ Matlala – inquiry www.news24.com/southafrica/...

🔒HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...

SA and the upcoming season of political apathy www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

SA and the upcoming season of political apathy www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Joburg’s abandoned elders — inside the City’s failing old-age home system. The City of Joburg has lost operational and financial control of its 39 municipally owned old-age homes. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The stance taken by the Trump administration had been influenced “by a sustained campaign of disinformation by groups and individuals” in SA and the US, "endangering and undermining South Africa’s national interests, destroying South African jobs". www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

🔒‘Cat’ Matlala faces eviction over unpaid rent www.businessday.co.za/news/law/202...

🔒NICOLE FRITZ: NDPP shortlist exposes a much deeper crisis. Apart from the alarming inclusion of former NDPP Menzi Simelane, one appointment cannot save the NPA. www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2025...

What Hurwitz objects to is that Holocaust education works. She is upset that the various social media vectors through which people hear directly from Palestinians drive accurate perceptions of the genocide. www.forever-wars.com/sarah-hurwit...

🔒Carol Paton | The ANC has many Brown Mogotsis who have rocked our politics www.news24.com/business/opi...

Six candidates shortlisted to replace Shamila Batohi as NPA head www.news24.com/southafrica/...

The DA’s Gordian knot: How the party’s internal feud could affect the elections www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Ward poll beatdown — ANC loses seats to MK, PA and independent candidate as it bleeds support www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

‘Cele lied’ — Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala alleges he made R500K payoff to former police minister www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

It all blew up, there was some legal hokey-cokey, they lost their jobs, she fled to LA, RFK became health secretary. He’s got bigger brainworms to fry; the other two are now “breaking their silence”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔒Desperate in Donbas: He trusted ‘Auntie Dudu’, but his mom hasn’t heard from him in 3 months www.news24.com/southafrica/...