Daily Maverick

• June 2022
  • 30 June The Commission for Gender Equality’s leadership crisis bodes ill for everyone – the public needs to pay attention
  • 21 June Tiny insect holds potential to transform our waste, agricultural, medical, and food landscapes
  • 21 June Majority of SA youth forced to choose between job-hunting and buying food
• May 2022
  • 9 May 2022 Meat the pioneers – Cape firm makes Africa’s first lab-grown burger, with a side order of conscience
• April 2022
  • 29 April 2022 It’s been three and half years since the GBV summit and still no gender-based violence council
• March 2022
  • 17 March 2022 South Africa has many mountains to climb to achieve gender equality by 2030
  • 8 March 2022 Less talk, more action – the SA government must do more to ensure women are not excluded from the green transition
• December 2021
  • 21 December 2021 Local is lekker when it comes to reusable pads and nappies
  • 21 December 2021 Nappies and pads fill up our landfills: action is needed by producers and consumers
  • 14 December 2021 How non-governmental shelters have had to adapt to a state of disaster
  • 9 December 2021 Yappy medium: Happy Hounds using vegetables and insect protein to make ‘gentle’ pet food.
• November 2021
  • 29 November 2021 Experts agree it’s high time that perceptions of fatherhood in South Africa are challenged — in some cases corrected
  • 11 November 2021 Is SA’s Caesarean section rate too high in the public sector? Yes and No.
  • 11 November 2021 South Africa’s high rates of Caesarean Section. What’s happening in the private sector?
• October 2021
  • 14 October 2021 South Africa’s political parties do little to manifest gender equality in their 2021 manifestos
  • 14 October 2021 Social protection for pregnant women: there are those who are trying to make births better
  • 8 October 2021 The women navigating pregnancy, birth and motherhood during the Covid-19 pandemic
• September 2021
  • 3 September 2021 No real effort to increase the representation of LGBTQI+ persons in government
• August 2021
  • 31 August 2021 Women in South Africa’s Local Government Elections: Equality and representation lessons for 2021/22
• June 2021
  • 28 June 2021 What do the Manhattan Project, your frying pan, and the Hartebeespoort Dam have in common? The answer is PFAS
  • 29 June 2021 How did a class of potentially dangerous chemicals manufactured in the US get to the Hartebeespoort Dam. And if they got there, where else are they?
  • 30 June 2021 Is a State-Owned Company to blame for PFAS contamination at Hartebeespoort Dam
  • 30 June 2021 New efforts to protect us from ‘forever chemicals’ won’t work unless the companies that use and produce them come forward
  • 1 July Polyfluoroalkyl chemicals contaminate our food, clothes, environment and even bloodstream — tight regulations must be implemented
• February 2021
  • 8 February 2021 It’s time for female MPs to screw their courage to the sticking place
• December 2020
  • 24 December 2020 If you think COVID19 made women’s lives hard, climate change will make it worse
  • 17 December 2020 Saga of 5 BMWs underlines misdirected and mismanaged efforts to fight GBV
• March 2020
  • 12 March 2020 Ramaphosa adviser’s grip over the GBV and Femicide Fund
  • 19 March 2020 Interim body tasked with tackling gender-based violence and femicide is law unto itself