Articles from Daily Maverick (5)
Johannesburg’s Ground Zero of failure — residents protest at city council
In Brixton, Mayfair and Vrededorp, water cuts are so routine they barely register. Streetlights lie in scrapyards, while water from tankers never reaches the elderly. Residents pay top rates but...
Mustafa Barghouti and Jeremy Corbyn condemn Trump’s plan for Gaza
The Palestinian politician and British MP spoke at an event in Cape Town on Tuesday.
No cellphones, no call centre for a month — NMB metro’s contract drama
The Nelson Mandela Bay call centre has been out of service for a month, and councillors’ cellphones have been cut off amid myriad contract dramas and payment snags.
Nelson Mandela Bay fails to spend R152m of maintenance budget
‘The money will not be spent on service delivery as it will probably need to be sent back to the National Treasury,’ the DA’s Retief Odendaal told the Eastern Cape legislature.
Questions Senzo Mchunu may have to answer at the Madlanga Commission
After nine days of testimony at the Madlanga Commission into police corruption, it is becoming increasingly clear that sidelined Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has some difficult questions to answer.