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3 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Caryn Dolley

An illegal immigrant crackdown in Texas in the US in 2024 sparked an investigation into a man who said he was from South Africa and who was subsequently arrested on terror suspicions. The 18-year-old is now in an American detention facility and may be awaiting deportation. In September 2024, Umar Farooq Ashraf, who is reportedly 18, was detained in Texas with a group of allegedly undocumented immigrants.

3 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Tania Broughton

GROUNDUP An interim court interdict gagging three whistle-blowers from speaking out about a Durban-based solar panel company, is being challenged on constitutional grounds. (Illustration: Lisa Nelson) The whistle-blowers argue that their right to freedom of expression has been violated, as amaBhungane applies to join the case. The three “whistle-blowers” who were recently gagged by solar panel company ARTsolar from making “defamatory allegations” that it was importing rather than locally...

4 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kristin Engel

uMkhonto Wesizwe party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu was fraternising with fugitive and self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri in Malawi this weekend, where Bushiri and his wife fled after appearing in South African courts on charges of fraud and rape.

4 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kristin Engel

TRIBUTES IN GRIEF   Pope Francis arrives to lead his weekly audience at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on 6 March 2024.

4 days 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.