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Daily Maverick - Maverick Life


[SEMIGRATION DIARIES] Natural-born class acts — why small-town schools punch above their weight


Here is why some of the country’s best education can be found in the rural areas.


[MUSIC] Pretoria’s Filah Lah Lah leads the charge on resurging R&B scene


The Pretoria native talks about her journey to self-assurance as both a woman and an artist, and why she is sure that her recently released debut album reflects this new confidence perfectly.


[THE CONVERSATION] Great news — chocolate may have surprising health perks for your heart and mood


Dark chocolate, in the right circumstances, may also reduce blood pressure and prevent the formation of clots that block arterial systems.


[FLY FISHING OP-ED] A weekend of trout fishing in leopard country is a reminder that SA still has clean waters


South Africa has an emerging water crisis that partly stems from climate change, and partly from state failure. So it’s always a treat to fly-fish for trout in clean waters, which is cleansing for both the mind and the soul.


[IN PICTURES] 2024 Sony World Photography Awards: Still Life


The Sony World Photography Awards returns to celebrate contemporary photography and the ways the arts reflect the world around us. Here is a selection of the images from the Professional competition in the still life category.


[REFLECTION] A poetic pilgrimage in the footsteps of Roy Campbell


After it premiered in 1995, Anthony Akerman’s play about the charismatic and controversial poet Roy Campbell was performed to critical acclaim and garnered several awards. In this story, Akerman explains what drew him to Campbell and takes the reader on a literary pilgrimage that ends in a remote Portuguese hillside cemetery.


[WHAT WE’RE WATCHING] ‘Civil War’ review — an eerily familiar dystopian perspective that captures last of US


If you plan to go into Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ with fists clenched, ready to be outraged, and claim personal attack over your sociopolitical beliefs… don’t. The dystopian thriller is nothing like that, for better or worse.


[IN PICTURES] A new statue of Queen Elizabeth II unveiled, and more from around the world


Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 48 hours.


[BOOK REVIEW] Back To The Front — Leon Levy’s first-hand account of resistance politics in SA


Treason Trial accused Leon Levy is one of the giants of South Africa’s liberation Struggle, and in ‘Back to the Front — A Memoir’ (Jacana) he reflects on his life fighting injustice and racism.


[IN PICTURES] The Azalea Festival, and more from around the world


Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 48 hours.


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[THEATRE REVIEW] Lara Foot’s captivating adaptation of Othello is an emotional journey highlighting Africa’s colonial past


Shakespeare relocated to genocidal German South West Africa brings a fresh humanity to this polished, tears-down-your-cheeks adaptation of Othello.


[BOOK EXTRACT] The close, secret ties that bound Israel to apartheid South Africa


This extract from the book, ‘The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World’, sheds light on how close the political, ideological and military relationship was between the two countries.


[SATIRICALLY SPEAKING] The South African S*** Show is back at it again and better than ever!


Enter the eternal sunshine of the Jacob Zuma supporter’s mind.


[IN PICTURES] Dubai flooded after historic rainfall, and more from around the world


Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 48 hours.


[IN PICTURES] 2024 Sony World Photography Awards: Sport photography


The Sony World Photography Awards returns to celebrate contemporary photography and the ways the arts reflect the world around us. Here is a selection of the images from the Professional competition in the sport category.


[TRIAL BY MEDIA] Duelling arias and piano gunfire — the shock and awe of new opera


South African composer Conrad Asman tries his hand at opera for the first time, turning to a topic close to many of our hearts: former golden boy Oscar Pistorius and the murder of Reeva Steenkamp.


[THEATRE] Three bite-size operas offer something old, something new, something comic and something blue


Comprising three one-hour-maximum productions, Cape Town Opera’s ‘Shorts: A Festival of Pocket Operas’ is a showcase of some of the variety that exists within the genre.


[THE CONVERSATION] As neurotechnology draws the hive mind closer to reality, it’s time to talk about its larger purpose


Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds. But its use and implications need much more discussion across sectors.


[POET’S CORNER] Human connection and emotion reveal that good and evil lie within us all


Human existence is an intricate fabric with strands pulling this way and that. Like interwoven yarns, we must find compassion by realising we are part of a whole.


[IN PICTURES] A ‘one million tulips’ garden, and more from around the world


Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 48 hours.


[PHOTO ESSAY] First posthumous monograph on David Goldblatt shows photographer’s continued relevance


‘David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive’ coincides with a major retrospective exhibition organised by Yale University, which now houses the world-famous photographer’s archive, and The Art Institute of Chicago.


[ESCAPE] Karoo Oddities (Part Two) – welcome to the Street of Dreams, where there’s power in the sausage


In the Karoo, there is always something quaint and quirky around the next corner – from Uniondale where there is power in the wors to Matjiesfontein where Johnny Theunissen was a one-man welcome committee.


[The Conversation] Sex, birth and whalesong: life on the humpback highway


There’s so much we still don’t know about whales. Here’s three amazing new things we’ve learnt about whales lately: how humpback whales have sex and give birth – and how baleen whales sing underwater.


[IN PICTURES] The horsemen of the Durbar festival, and more from around the world


Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 48 hours.


[BOOK REVIEW] New Daughters of Africa — expanding the breadth of crucial intergenerational conversations


Margaret Busby’s anthology celebrates the power of compelling voices.


[IN PICTURES] 2024 Sony World Photography Awards: Professional Portraiture and Portfolio


The Sony World Photography Awards returns to celebrate contemporary photography and the ways the arts reflect the world around us. Here is a selection of the images from the Professional competition in the portfolio and portraiture categories.


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