Janet Heard

3 weeks ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Janet Heard

Janet Heard is a Cape Town-based journalist. Public interest media has a small window in the build-up to the G20 Summit in South Africa. The Group of 20 is easily dismissed as a talk shop with little substance.

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Janet Heard

Janet Heard is a Cape Town-based journalist. Have US President Donald Trump and a group of our compatriots who have been embraced by him as refugees not heard of a place called Orania? That may have been an alternative, closer-to-home option than fleeing to chase the American Dream.

Jan 8, 2025 | dailymaverick.co.za | Janet Heard

HUMANS OF MZANSI The entrepreneur is harnessing her passion for the ocean to help children with disabilities. The pioneering research on a tailored programme that Davis initiated in Cape Town has been revealing, particularly in a country with large health inequalities and amid barriers to access.

Nov 30, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Janet Heard

REFLECTION Daily Maverick managing editor Janet Heard reflects on seven years of riding the crazy news roller coaster. The year 2017 was tumultuous. I walked into Daily Maverick in the middle of that game-changer year. The opener to the 2017 chapter from DM’s book,  We Have a Game Changer, describes the year: “2017 was Daily Maverick’s biggest year since its inception. It also brought 12 months of turbulence unprecedented in democratic South Africa.

Nov 29, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Stephen Grootes |Janet Heard |Ferial Haffajee |J Brooks Spector

Zuma’s improbable return, Jordaan’s descent from grace, and the TikTok sunscreen debate. Jacob Zuma’s own weaknesses and choice of strategy make it almost impossible for him to again win mass support across the country.