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UK-based magazine ‘Time Out’ polled 20,000 city dwellers and experts to rank the ‘greatest places for fun, food, culture and community’. </span><b>Leila Dougan</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes us on a visual tour of the area.</span>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-19-top-breast-cancer-surgeon-quits-helen-joseph-hospital-volunteers-follow/?utm_source=top_reads_block&utm_campaign=south_africa\">‘They made her life hell’ – top breast cancer surgeon quits Helen Joseph Hospital, and volunteers follow suit</a></strong></h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1435711\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/professor-carol-ann-benn-photo-bbc-co-uk-wikipedia/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1435711\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MC-MARCUS-ANALYSIS_8-e1666206470469.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"378\" /></a> Professor Carol-Ann Benn. (Photo: bbc.co.uk / Wikipedia)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The resignation of renowned breast cancer specialist surgeon Professor Carol-Ann Benn from Helen Joseph Hospital has fuelled concerns about the loss of expertise for the public health sector amid pressures on cancer services in Gauteng. </span><b>Ufrieda Ho</b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spoke to health authorities, patients and breast clinic volunteers about the potential impact on cancer care at the hospital.</span>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-14-the-great-coffee-escape/\">The Great Coffee Escape</a></strong></h3>\r\n<h2><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-14-the-great-coffee-escape/bianca-coco-coffees/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1422499\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1422499\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/bianca-coco-coffees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" /></a></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pretoria-born Wilhelm Liebenberg, founder of Coco Safar in Sea Point, Cape Town, has followed dreams from music, fashion design and movies to an international brand which offers escapism for the price of a cup of coffee and a croissant.</span>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-19-farmers-alarm-over-free-state-drilling-plans-despite-no-fracking-pledge-by-rhino-oil-and-gas-company/?utm_source=top_reads_block&utm_campaign=south_africa\">Farmers’ alarm over Free State drilling plans — despite ‘no fracking’ pledge by Rhino oil and gas company</a></strong></h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1435383\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/oil-jackpump-in-colorado/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1435383\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GP0STPZPS_High_res.jpg\" alt=\"farmers free state fracking\" width=\"720\" height=\"388\" /></a> Light from the setting sun shines through clouds over a pumpjack oil well near Loveland on the Niobara shale formation in the United States. (Photo: Les Stone / Greenpeace)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rhino Resources, a subsidiary company of European and American fossil fuel investors, has announced plans to dig dozens of gas exploration wells in the farmlands of the Free State. It’s not the first time they have wanted to search for fossil fuel deposits in SA as</span><b> Tony Carnie </b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tells us.</span>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-19-leaps-of-joy-seeing-whales-for-the-first-time-in-hermanus/\">Leaps of joy – seeing whales for the first time in Hermanus</a></strong></h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1365509\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/1i7a9029-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1365509\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1I7A9029-2.jpg\" alt=\"P4U\" width=\"720\" height=\"490\" /></a> Mother & Child @ Hermanus. With Thanks to pilot: Rae Henderson. (Photo: Melanie Black)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hermanus Whale Festival has finally returned after the pandemic, drawing in many tourists to the quiet town. A group of young Americans saw whales for the first time, experiencing this unique South African celebra</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tion.</span>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-20-drivers-start-your-engines-cape-town-to-feel-the-need-for-e-speed/\">Drivers, start your engines: Cape Town to feel the need for e-speed</a></strong></h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1025311\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/abb-fia-formula-e-championship-puebla-e-prix-round-8/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1025311\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Kretzmann-formulaE-CT-main-option-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" /></a> The (car number 71) ROKiT Venturi Racing during the ABB FIA Formula E Championship - Puebla E-Prix Round 8 on 19 June 2021 in Puebla, Mexico. (Photo: Hector Vivas / Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is it about speed? It’s just such a thrill. Throughout history, human beings — and, if we are being honest, mainly those of the masculine proclivity — have pushed the limits of their capacity for speed, from the chariot races of yore to putting the pedal to the metal in the modern day.</span>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2022-10-20-dis-chems-no-whites-employment-equity-plan-is-irrational-and-unlawful/\">Dis-Chem’s ‘no whites’ employment equity plan is irrational and unlawful</a></strong></h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1436559\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/south-africa-declares-state-of-disaster-on-coronavirus-7/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1436559\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1207372679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" /></a> A Dis-Chem Pharmacy in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photo: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty Images)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dis-Chem’s much publicised employment equity plan has raised the ire of many people. In this piece, <strong>Marthinus van Staden</strong> argues that it is difficult to conclude that the pharmaceutical giant’s planned prohibition on hiring white workers and linking of performance appraisal of management to achieving employment equity targets will pass judicial scrutiny.</span>\r\n<h3><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-20-new-uk-premier-may-be-decided-on-monday-after-tories-set-contest-rules/\"><strong>New UK premier may be decided on Monday after Tories set contest rules</strong></a></h3>\r\n<p class=\"first-paragraph\">Contenders will need the backing of 100 Tory legislators just to get on the ballot. There are 357 Conservative MPs, so a maximum of three of them will be able to run.</p>\r\n<strong>DM</strong>",
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an informal annual summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States heads of state at the Konstantin Palace presidential residence in Strelna, outside St Petersburg, Russia, 7 October 2022. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Alexei Danichev / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool)
Women on the beach pose for a photo in Sea Point. (Photo: Leila Dougan)
Professor Carol-Ann Benn. (Photo: bbc.co.uk / Wikipedia)
Light from the setting sun shines through clouds over a pumpjack oil well near Loveland on the Niobara shale formation in the United States. (Photo: Les Stone / Greenpeace)
Mother & Child @ Hermanus. With Thanks to pilot: Rae Henderson. (Photo: Melanie Black)
The (car number 71) ROKiT Venturi Racing during the ABB FIA Formula E Championship - Puebla E-Prix Round 8 on 19 June 2021 in Puebla, Mexico. (Photo: Hector Vivas / Getty Images)
A Dis-Chem Pharmacy in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photo: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty Images)