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WATERGATE: ANC demands that DA removes Lesufi shower billboard
After Gauteng’s premier admitted using hotels during water cuts, the DA turned the moment into a billboard — and the ANC now wants it removed, warning of court action over the AI-generated image.
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Four years, same 18 schools: The recurring maths of Gauteng’s school infrastructure
As learners in Tembisa and Kempton Park finally enter classrooms two months late, Daily Maverick looks at how many education promises have gone unanswered.
VIDEO STING INVESTIGATION: NPA appoints advocate to prioritise Malaka ‘Dior bag bribe’ probe
A police investigation into former Independent Development Trust head Tebogo Malaka and her spokesperson Phasha Makgolane, who Daily Maverick filmed about six months ago allegedly offering a cash bribe to a journalist, is not yet ‘trial-ready’, but it is inch…
POWER STRUGGLE: Nelson Mandela Bay risks defaulting on Eskom payments, warns business chamber
Nelson Mandela Bay’s Business Chamber has warned that the metro’s spiralling electricity losses will force the city into insolvency and collapse municipal services if there is no urgent intervention.
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: From Parliament to prison — Vincent Smith receives seven-year sentence for Bosasa corruption
Vincent Smith, once a powerful ANC MP and parliamentary committee chairperson, is headed to prison while comrades accused of similar offences walk free.
POLAR POLITICS: US Senate chair: Russia ‘violating treaty’ in Antarctic oil, gas hunt via Cape Town
A rare rebuke from the Foreign Relations Committee elevates years of quiet prospecting into a test of whether the US will enforce a ban it helped to write.
HOPE AND SOLUTIONS: How community-municipality partnerships can alleviate SA’s water crisis
Water service delivery is in crisis. In rural and other marginalised areas, community–municipality partnership is a vital — and overlooked — part of the solution.
THE STORIED MOUNTAIN: Yellow angels: Table Mountain’s firefighting helicopters
In Cape Town you know there’s a fire before you see or smell it. The thud thud of the big old Huey helicopters trailing buckets is a sure sign that somewhere the mountain’s burning.