Maverick Life

Great fiction and non-fiction books to lose yourself in this holiday

By Daily Maverick Team

Africa

In the cockpit of Angola’s ideological struggle – Fred Bridgland’s ‘The Guerrilla and the Journalist’

By Luthando Dyasop

South Africa

ANC crisis derives not purely from indifference to the poor, but also an absence of debate

By Raymond Suttner

Africa

With Madiba in Cuba: How Fidel Castro helped Nelson Mandela free South Africa

By Raymond Suttner

South Africa

Leadership in Question (Part 10 - Continued): The personal and the political of Chris Hani’s qualities

By Raymond Suttner

South Africa

Leadership in Question (Part 10): What we can learn from Chris Hani’s qualities

By Raymond Suttner

World

DR Congo leader maintains suspense over plans

By AFP

South Africa

Op-Ed: Fifty Years On – Che Guevara through the lens

By Kate Janse Van Rensburg

Africa

Op-Ed: Is the Congolese opposition ready to govern?

By Claude Kabemba

Politics

Fidel Castro and America – a mutually assured obsession

By J Brooks Spector

Africa

Open Letter to Thabo Mbeki: The DRC needs your help – now more than ever

By Tshene Wedi

Africa

Op-Ed: SADC summit an opportunity to set DRC on path to a peaceful transition of power

By Claude Kabemba