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A Daily Maverick investigation can reveal that unscrupulous bus company agents operating out of Park Station in the Johannesburg CBD are selling fake Covid-19 test results to passengers travelling to neighbouring countries. In a matter of minutes, Daily Maverick was able to secure two fake Covid-19 test results from two bus companies for a total of R700. Each test bore the name and logo of a reputable private pathology laboratory, used technical medical jargon to describe the result and appeared to be legitimate. Park Station is Johannesburg’s central railway station and, according to the...

When the first case of COVID-19 was announced in South Africa on March 5, 2020, Azubuike Muodum thought the pandemic was only going to be around for some weeks, a month at the most. A week before, Azubuike had heard about the first outbreak in Wuhan, China.  Advertisement More than a year later, the pandemic is still around and has caused major disruptions around the world including affecting migrant communities and their livelihoods. Muodum, 57, who is originally from Anambra state, Nigeria’s Southeast, moved to South Africa in 1994, and runs 1505, a medium scale popular bar and restaura...

Oil spill damage in the Niger Delta region, April 6, 2010 (Flickr/Sosialistisk Ungdom) Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made uninhabitable by decades of oil spills. "You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil," said Ayafa, who is a parishioner at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Bodo, a fishing village that has suffered from massive oil spills. "You go to the farm and the crops are damaged and cannot produce because of pollution. That is our fate here." A series of pipeline spill...

Ripples Nigeria has a shinning start to the year as the duo of Patrick Egwu and Vivian Chime were named among 50 journalists across the globe honoured by the International Centre For Journalists (ICFJ). Egwu and Chime won second place under the Inequality, Business and Economics category for an investigative report commissioned by Ripples Nigeria titled ‘Investigation: ‘Official’ Thugs Killing Small Businesses in Cross River Despite Govt’s Tax Exemption Policy’ In a statement on the ICFJ website announcing the award, the centre said: “The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ...

January 25, 2021 In our “Africa Reacts” series, the CSIS Africa Program asks prominent African journalists, civil society activists, and thought leaders to share their analysis on the U.S. political process. By flipping the script—featuring African analysts’ views on U.S. politics rather than U.S. analysts’ opinions on African developments—we are seeking to start a new conversation about the future of U.S.-African relations. In our eighth edition, we asked top African analysts to react to President Biden’s inauguration and the events leading up to that day. Many noted the delete...