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On a scorching weekday in early February, case number 35402/2010 of the Pretoria High Court travelled to the Barberton Mountain Lands, for an in loco inspection of the nature reserve formerly known as Nkomazi Wilderness. What the court saw, with counsel for Deputy President DD Mabuza in attenda...

Bongani Bingwa chats to Conservationist Fred Daniel on the court case at the Pretoria High Court.

Deputy President David Mabuza is being accused of releasing henchmen on conservationist Fred Daniel when he was still the Mpumalanga premier.

In two cases that reach the highest rungs of local politics, land rights scams have been linked to illegal hunting.

‘They fail upwards in Mpumalanga,’ author Rehana Rossouw said during a Daily Maverick webinar on Thursday. Her new book, Predator Politics, explores how corruption has derailed land reform and conservation programmes in the province. It details an extraordinary history of alleged graft and...

Edward Zuma, the son of former South African president Jacob Zuma, (C) gestures to the crowd to move back along with Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) members while they gather in front of his father’s home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal on July 4, 2021. – On July 3, 2021, hundreds of supporters gathered to show solidarity for former South African president Jacob Zuma outside his Nkandla homestead, as the deadline looms for him to surrender to the authorities. In an unpreced...

What is left after the State Capture wrecking ball, after the looting from so many state-owned entities?

Stephen Grootes, writing in Daily Maverick on 30 May 2021, analyses the trends that are emerging as conditions for proper structural and economic reform under the dramatic heading “Lights… Camera… Reform! Ramaphosa’s window of opportunity is nigh”. It is necessary to write a gloss on the wide-ranging analysis given and to fill in the details that appear to explain some of the anomalies that Grootes highlights in his analysis. It is not entirely clear what is meant by the phrase “pr...

On “Memories of My Grandmother” and The Man Who Lived Underground.

Leveraging state coffers to fund and keep the ANC in power is deeply ingrained in the governing party’s political DNA, an explosive report to the Zondo Commission reveals.