Maverick News

Deadly pesticides still widely available in Joburg despite spaza shop crackdown

By Bheki C. Simelane

South Africa

The 346 pesticides in SA that cause cancer, birth defects or worse, and the fight to keep them

By Susan Comrie and Onke Ngcuka

Africa

Loaded for Bear: Animal rights activists and climate change deniers have a few things in common

By Ed Stoddard

Maverick News

India’s decision to ban exports of rice adds to rising global food prices risks

By Wandile Sihlobo

World

Donald Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts reinstated after two-year ban

By Bloomberg

Sport

Fifa’s Russia ban is rare – but strips bare the idea that sport can be apolitical

By Stefan Szymanski

South Africa

What do the Manhattan Project, your frying pan, and the Hartbeespoort Dam have in common? The answer is PFAS (Part One)

By Jennifer Smout

South Africa

All contact sport in schools suspended with immediate effect

By Victoria O’Regan

South Africa

Life’s not a beach during Covid-19

By Rebecca Pitt and Victoria O’Regan

South Africa

Writing the Election 2019: There should be no place for paramilitary groups in a democratic society

By Ismail Lagardien