Maverick News

Reality check as gang shootings mar Ramaphosa’s vision for a safer South Africa

By Caryn Dolley

Op-eds

Independent black music production and marketing pioneer Rashid Vally takes his final bow

By David B. Coplan

Politics

Patriotic Alliance piles pressure on DA, ANC as its growth surge continues in Western and Eastern Cape wards

By Wayne Sussman

South Africa

Manenberg resident's 20-year wait for housing set to end with eviction

By Tori Newby

South Africa

Gatvol Manenberg residents march on police station to demand action against gangs and drugs

By Siyabonga Goni

Maverick Citizen

At this Cape Flats centre for abused women and children, Sister Leonie Weyers elicits smiles when spirits are hurt

By Biénne Huisman for Spotlight

South Africa

Shifting landscapes, power plays dealing death and destruction through Cape Town’s ceaseless gang shootings

By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

South Africa

Surge in mass shootings in Cape Town - At least 26 people killed in four weeks

By Velani Ludidi

South Africa

‘Our kids are very frustrated,’ say Manenberg residents upset by the closure of public swimming pools at the height of summer

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

South Africa

Mental Health Awareness Month celebrated with Manenberg kite spectacle

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

South Africa

Tackling conflict in quest for peace: 'Nobody really pays attention until something burns'

By Maru Attwood

South Africa

Life on the mean streets, where at night ‘the gangsters start shooting like mad, like they are in a war zone’

By Shiraaz Mohamed