Maverick News

Photo essay: Bhaca struggle to preserve their heritage in a world of assimilation

By Vuyiswa Khuboni

Business Maverick

Implats disaster another mining tragedy for the people of Eastern Cape and Lesotho

By Ed Stoddard

South Africa

Port St Johns tense after more homesteads torched following soldier’s arrest

By Hoseya Jubase

Magazine

My father’s daughter and the woman his family teachings ultimately shaped

By Gcina Mhlophe

Maverick Life

At the heart of the Wild Coast are its people and their invaluable local knowledge

By Larry Dolley

South Africa

Bitter multiparty dispute still rages over Wild Coast Sun land

By Chris Makhaye

South Africa

Photographs and memories — a pair of rusty fishing pliers and a faded Instamatic snapshot

By Hamilton Wende

South Africa

Covid crisis could be the catalyst for a return to rural revolt in South Africa

By Leslie Bank

South Africa

Covid death rate in rural Eastern Cape far and away highest in South Africa

By Leslie Bank

South Africa

Transkei’s Xolobeni community sounds alarm over extractivism, absent ministers and lack of basic services

By Onke Ngcuka

South Africa

The politics of cultural defiance – exhumations and rural reburials in Covid times

By Leslie Bank and Aneza Madini

Business Maverick

The state’s new leasing plan: Land reform, or land grab?

By Rosalie Kingwill