'A poem will not stop a bullet, a novel cannot defuse a bomb... but writers can still sing the truth, and name the lies.' - Salman Rushdie

Read what writers, including Rushdie, said at PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers in May, convened to consider solidarity, free expression and the role of writers during upheaval

2022-07-13  | Harper’s Magazine

Marikana: 10 years later

It's been a decade since 34 mineworkers died at the hands of the police while protesting for a living wage. Daily Maverick looks at what happened that fateful day and how has it shaped South Africa.

 | Daily Maverick

Small scale fishers call for halt to gas and oil exploration

'When foreign companies drill oil in our oceans, fish die. The noise from drilling causes fish to disappear … We won’t allow the government and foreign companies to take over our oceans.'

2022-08-15  | GroundUp News

Arthur Fraser ‘erred spectacularly’ in granting Zuma medical parole, Supreme Court of Appeal is told

‘The evidence and the law point overwhelmingly to the fact that Mr Fraser’s efforts to ignore or to override the [medical parole] board are a textbook spectacle of unlawfulness,’ advocate argues.

2022-08-15  | Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick wins defamation case as court slaps guest contributor Modibe Modiba with R100,000 damages

Modibe Modiba ordered to remove comments and apologise for ‘patently false and defamatory allegations’.

2022-08-15  | Daily Maverick

News From Our Continent

‘David fighting Goliath’: Drama as Ruto wins Kenyan election

There was drama and disagreement in parts of the capital after Deputy President Ruto was declared president-elect.

2022-08-16  | Al Jazeera

World News

Giuliani is target of Georgia probe into 2020 US election

Lawyers for Rudy Giuliani have been told that he is a target in a criminal probe examining attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election.

 | News24

Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near the front line

Anastasiia Aleksandrova doesn’t even look up from her phone when the thunder of nearby artillery booms through the modest home the 12-year-old shares with her grandparents in eastern Ukraine.

2022-08-15  | AP NEWS

Health News

Women in Health: How Daphney Conco dreamed of wearing a graduation gown and did it

Dr Daphney Conco is passionate about sexual and reproductive health rights, access to abortion in particular, and that's why she's at the forefront of research on access to abortion services in SA.

2022-08-15  | Spotlight

Sport

Boks set to unleash versatile Canan Moodie on Wallabies

Bulls coach Jake White believes that Canan Moodie will play 100 Tests for South Africa, and his first is imminent.

2022-08-15  | Daily Maverick

And Then There's This ....

Rochdale car thief tried to hide from police inside teddy bear

Officers searching for 18-year-old Joshua Dobson spotted 'a large bear breathing' and found him inside. He was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders' institution.

2022-08-10  | BBC News