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1 day ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
Complicating matters at the hearing are completely divergent understandings of a range of emojis, from eggplants to peaches, from a dripping syringe to ‘pervy’ eyes, that shot between the Judge President and the legal secretary. Much is invested in the process and outcome of the Judicial Conduct Tribunal of Judge President of the Eastern Cape, Selby Mbenenge.
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3 days ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
WRIT LARGE The majesty of Antjie Krog's last book.
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4 days ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
As we pulled up to the stop sign near their primary school, my two young daughters noticed graffiti sprayed on a vibracrete wall surrounding the corner house. “What’s that?” asked our oldest, who must have been about 10 at the time. Don't want to see this? Remove adsA bold, huge, cartoonish erect penis and hair-speckled balls stood out in black against the grey.
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1 week ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
True-crime series Niggies tells the story of the rape and murder of two 12-year-olds in 1966 Free State. It’s excellent, if harrowing, viewing. The nine-part true-crime series Niggies (Cousins) is a gripping South African stand-out addition to this popular genre. The disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith was the real-time backdrop for the release on 25 March on DStv Streaming (scheduled for later on Showmax) of Niggies, set in the northern Free State goldfields in 1966.
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1 week ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
The suspended Western Cape High Court judge faces possible impeachment after claiming he ‘misremembered’ an alleged assault by impeached judge president John Hlophe. Suspended Western Cape High Court Judge Mushtak Parker’s silence about an alleged assault by impeached judge president John Hlophe has sealed his fate.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
David Africa describes in a tell-all book how Pagad, the violent vigilante group, was taken down. Few who lived then will forget that mid-winter night of 4 August 1996 when notorious Hard Livings gang leader, Rashaad Staggie, was publicly lynched and set ablaze with petrol by a People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) mob outside his house in Salt River. The early democratic years and the giddy build-up to 2000 with its expected Y2K bogeys were as dangerous as they were thrilling.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
The death of Pope Francis, one of the most humane and beloved of Catholic pontiffs, leaves the world’s vulnerable and oppressed with one less voice against the cacophony of tongues of fire from evangelicals such as Paula White. White was Donald Trump’s “spiritual and campaign adviser” during his 2016 bid for the US presidency. Paula White Ministries now has an online store selling trinkets and blessings, and takes “offerings” in return. Don't want to see this?
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
The healthcare group has vowed to pursue ‘all avenues of appeal’, saying that allowing Dr Louis Kathan to continue practising at Life Healthcare ‘fails to acknowledge the gravity of the harassment, racist and homophobic comments, and sexual aspects inherent in the misconduct’. Life Healthcare has hit back following a Western Cape High Court ruling allowing an oncologist with an inappropriate bedside manner to continue to hold rooms at Vincent Pallotti private hospital.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
The ConCourt ruled that Hlophe had made no case for a direct appeal to the apex court. The matter was dismissed with costs. An appeal for direct access by former Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe, found guilty of gross misconduct and now leader of the uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK) party in the National Assembly, has failed in the Constitutional Court.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm
Errol Musk, whose busy loins begat Elon (and a child by Elon’s stepsister), gives the kind of sexist, racist quotes that make digital media salivate. Not a week goes by without Errol (who was born in 1946, the same year as US President Donald Trump) leaping at interview offers to offload his opinions, thoughts, advice to governments, women, his son and the world at large. Like a prophet from a dying age. Circling above like a bird of prey is the algorithm. And Errol Musk is an algorithmic wet dream.
