IT ALL started with a thread on x.com about 'how Cape Town was started', and 'who lived here before the settlers arrived'?  The platform has become a haven for fringe groups, including opposition parties. Extremist politician Mehmet Dag, the man behind attempts to remove Green Point's "Rainbow Cr...

ON 16 December 1995, the first celebration of 'Reconciliation Day" took place. It was timed to coincide with the inaugural meeting of the  'South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission'. Convenor Desmond Tutu described the holiday as 'serving the need of healing the wounds of Apartheid'. The...

THIS week Kevin Bloom, a Daily Maverick associate editor waded into a controversy surrounding 'Gift of the Givers' (GOTG). The group faces allegations of channeling funds designated for humanitarian relief to organisations such as Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (Hamas), who are listed as terror...

THE SITUATION is all too familiar. A 25-year-old black man Thabiso Danca, found that he was welcome and able to enter a Cape Town pub whenever accompanied by white colleagues. But without the gift of whiteness, he wasn’t even recognized at the door. The situation escalated when Danca, upset at be...

“TODAY marks one year since the start of an onslaught against the Palestinian people” reads President Ramaphosa’s perverse statement released to mark the anniversary of the 7/10 attack on the Nova Music festival and Kibbutz Be’eri alongside other communities in Southern Israel, which claimed the...