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Unpaid Winners and a Race in Crisis: The Soweto Marathon FalloutThe Soweto Marathon promised prize money and prestige when it took place on 29 November 2025. But nearly six months later, the top finishers are still waiting to be paid. What shou…
Are hackers holding our local government to ransom?South African municipalities are sitting on goldmines of your personal data — ID numbers, addresses, billing details — and they are catastrophically unprepared to protect it. No sk…
Ramaphosa bets on legal review to stall Phala Phala impeachment proceedingsPresident Cyril Ramaphosa is preparing to challenge the Section 89 report in court, a report that could ultimately result in his impeachment. At the same time, National Assembly Sp…
Second Cabinet minister implicated in Chinese SUV scandalMinister of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Maropene Ramokgopa has also been accused of giving luxury donated Chinese SUVs to her family and loved ones without disclosing this.…
Is your money really safe? South Africa’s invisible crime waveSouth Africa’s latest crime statistics suggest a country getting safer, but that’s only part of the story. Commercial crime - fraud, scams, and financial exploitation - is rising,…
Minister Sisisi Tolashe’s Undeclared Luxury SUVsSocial Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe told Parliament in February that she received two luxury SUVs as donations for the ANC Women’s League. Just one problem: the ANC doesn’t…
Somebody didn't care: how Grey's Hospital's failing air con became a surgical emergencyGrey's Hospital in Pietermaritzburg is a surgical lifeline for 4.5 million people across western KwaZulu-Natal. For years, its ageing air conditioning system has been breaking down…
Meet the Nigerian mega pastor shouting hallelujah after bidding to buy iconic Cape Town buildingIn late February 2026, the City of Cape Town auctioned off 53 City-owned properties, including the famous Good Hope Centre. The man who claims his bid was successful is a Nigeria-b…
How R11m in ATM cash deposits followed Brian MolefeBetween 2013 and 2018, R11.3-million in cash flowed into Palcocap — a company linked to former Transnet and Eskom boss Brian Molefe — through 706 ATM deposits across South Africa.…
Inside the US–Israel War on Iran - and What It Means for AfricaThis episode was made possible thanks to The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom: https://www.freiheit.org/sub-saharan-africa You can listen to the Let’s Talk Human Rights p…
How Cape Town's municipal bills are outrunning its middle-class residentsCape Town homeowners who do not qualify for income-linked rebates are paying municipal bills that have significantly outpaced inflation and salary increases over the past decade as…
From Real Housewives fame to real ‘shoplifting’ arrest infamySouth African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen revelled in the limelight. Melany featured on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Pretoria. And Viljoen styled himself as a lega…
Mayor or DA Leader? Geordin Hill-Lewis on Cape Town, the GNU & Why He’s Staying PutDaily Maverick’s Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee puts the hard questions to Cape Town's Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, on inequality, the DA leadership race, and what a funct…
Mkhwanazi vs McBride: Clashing claims tear South Africa’s security apartTwo competing narratives have emerged since KwaZulu-Natal police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi alleged in July 2025 that a cartel had penetrated South Africa’s criminal justice system,…
The wheeling and dealing behind South Africa’s AI factoriesSouth Africa is in the grip of an infrastructure supercycle, but it isn’t roads or rails. It is the rise of the AI Factory, windowless fortresses consuming small cities worth of po…
Redi Tlhabi Has Advice for America’s New Ambassador to South AfricaIn this solo episode of The Readiness Report, Redi Tlhabi discusses newly appointed US Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, and the recent rebuke from Foreign Minister…
The alleged illicit millions that bankrolled Brian Molefe’s lifestyleIn this video, Scorpio investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh unpacks documents pointing to an alleged slush fund linked to Brian Molefe during his tenure at Transnet and Es…
Is the Iran Conflict Slipping Beyond Control?As tensions sharpen between Iran, Israel and the United States, Redi Tlhabi and veteran journalist Phillip van Niekerk unpack the strikes, the denials and the shifting nuclear narr…
What the Budget Means for Your WalletIn this episode of The Readiness Report, Redi Tlhabi sits down with economist and director of Inani Strategies Xhanti Payi to unpack what the national budget really means for ordin…
Herman Mashaba on Running a City, the Water Crisis and the Politics of Exclusion in JohannesburgIn a wide-ranging interview, Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee sits down with Herman Mashaba, president of ActionSA and mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, to probe his plans for a…
