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14 July 2021 • 12:02am A masked man in central London, as Boris Johnson warns that coronavirus infections will rise as restrictions lift Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA SIR – All we ever hear are “scientists” warning about what might happen in the near future, and how many thousand hospitalisations and deaths we can expect. This is not science. We the public are tired of this incessant stream of prognostications which, in the recent past, have often been wide of the mark. We have wised up to a deliberate government policy of creating fear so as to generate compliance with endless diktats....

10 July 2021 • 12:01am NHS staff are deleting the NHS Covid tracing app amid calls from hospital leaders for doctors and nurses to be exempted from self-isolation rules before August Credit: Danny Lawson /PA SIR – I was “pinged” by the NHS Covid-19 app a few days before Christmas. The only place I had visited was a Christmas shop, when I was with my daughter – who also had the app, yet she was not pinged. No one phoned me from Test and Trace at any point. Lockdown soon followed, so Christmas plans were stopped, but I badly missed church on Christmas Day ... and I furtively walked my...

Reporting the truth: What is the private banking sector’s role in the climate crisis? by Julia Evans, Daily Maverick July 1, 2021 Reporting the truth: What is the private banking sector’s role in the climate crisis? by Julia Evans, Daily Maverick July 1, 2021 Our Burning Planet (OBP), Daily Maverick’s global change unit, had its first webinar on Thursday, delving into big business’ responsibility to help resolve the climate crisis. Never afraid to speak truth to power, Daily Maverick approached the Absa Group, whose recent financial support has allowed the OBP team to expand.

In a defining moment for South African democracy, the Guptas’ extradition treaty was signed this week. But in Pretoria, protesting political organisations said they would not rest until they were back in the country, and in jail.

“I never thought that 27 years after our freedom, I would be protesting in the street again. But this is where we are,” says Frank Chikane. The former anti-apartheid political activist and ANC member addressed the crowd outside the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy in Pretoria, where multiple political organisations, in solidarity with the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, were demanding the extradition process of the Guptas to come to term, their assets in UAE to be seized and for the Guptas to face trial.  Rev Frank Chikane and Neeshan Balton, executive director of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundat...