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Frank Chikane, DA Polls and the ANC’s Retreat From the Cities
October 28, 2026 · 17 minIn this Daily Maverick Power Chat, recorded a week before the 4 November local elections, Ferial Haffajee and Mondli Makhanya discuss the ANC’s campaign and its declining support in the metros. Haffajee reports from an ANC Johannesburg…
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October 26, 2026 · 23 minIn the first episode of Daily Maverick’s Beyond the Lead, Tamsin Metelerkamp and Lerato Mutsila speak to parliamentary journalist Marianne Merten about the Constitutional Court’s 15 October ruling in the ANC’s dispute with the IEC. The…
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ANC Decline, DA Gains: What Four Polls Show Before 4 November
October 22, 2026 · 22 minIn this Daily Maverick Power Chat, Ferial Haffajee and Mondli Makhanya assess four opinion polls ahead of the 4 November local government elections. All four point to a continued decline in ANC support, with the DA polling between 25% and…
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Ferial Haffajee and Ernst Roets on AGOA, Crosses and Autonomy
October 21, 2026 · 35 minIn this Daily Maverick Power Chat, Ferial Haffajee presses Ernst Roets of the think tank Lex Libertas about his group’s recent campaign in the United States. She asks why its Washington vigil of 3,000 crosses focused on farm-attack…
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How a Narrow Court Ruling Became a Week of Anti-Foreigner Posts
October 15, 2026 · 1 minIn July 2026, South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled that asylum seekers cannot be turned away on procedural grounds before their claims are heard. When Home Affairs began implementing the ruling in October, posts about it on X rose…
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Ngobese-Zuma’s March and March: Tenders, Funding and MKP
October 15, 2026 · 21 minIn this Daily Maverick Power Chat, Ferial Haffajee and Mondli Makhanya discuss March and March, the anti-migrant movement led by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, after last week’s mobilisation in KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg. Both journalists…
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Ekurhuleni Murders: What We Know About the Killings of 12 Women
October 14, 2026 · 4 minAt least 12 women have been reported murdered in Ekurhuleni since July 2026, prompting speculation that a serial killer may be operating in Gauteng. Police have set up a task team to investigate possible links between several cases but…
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Inside the South African drug deal that exposed an alleged Afghan trafficker and his ‘Taliban ties’
October 9, 2026 · 5 minA confidential US Drug Enforcement Administration source bought a methamphetamine sample in a Johannesburg parking lot in December 2024, evidence now central to a federal case against former Afghan politician Abdul Zahir Qadeer. Qadeer…
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Broke, divided and barely visible: the ANC limps towards 4 November
October 7, 2026 · 18 minWith less than a month until South Africa’s 4 November local government elections, Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee and Mondli Makhanya assess the state of the ANC’s campaign. They also talk about Johannesburg, where recent polling…
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AI Risks and AI Hype: Two Daily Maverick Journalists Debate
September 30, 2026 · 31 minIn this Daily Maverick Power Chat, senior journalist Rebecca Davis and Business Maverick managing editor Lindsey Schutters debate the risks of artificial intelligence. Davis argues that recent reported incidents, including AI agents…
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Cape Town Planning Tribunal Agreed With Officials Almost Every Time
September 30, 2026 · 8 minOver thirteen months, Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal ruled on 1,328 land-use and development cases. Not one was recorded as an explicit departure from city planners’ recommendations. The pattern surfaced in a fight over two data…
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Swimming SA to Pay Tatjana Smith Interest, Faces Scrutiny Over Kit's Deal
September 23, 2026 · 5 minSwimming South Africa withheld prize money owed to Tatjana Smith for over a year after her historic gold and silver medals at the 2023 World Championships, and allegedly failed to pay interest accrued during that delay. The federation has…

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