Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick

5/21/2025, 10:30:03 AM

Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Forecasts for growth have been slashed, so why does the rand keep getting stronger? https://ebx.sh/zW6fyF

Daily Maverick

5/21/2025, 10:53:15 AM

If Treasury can quietly decide which democratically enacted laws deserve funding resources, we no longer live under a constitutional democracy, but under rule by executive discretion. https://ebx.sh/5Y8rCp

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5/21/2025, 11:02:35 AM

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will deliver the Budget speech today at 14:00. This will be the third scheduled attempt to table the Budget, after one attempt was blocked by legal action, and another torpedoed by coalition deadlock over the now withdrawn VAT increase. https://ebx.sh/bv41qW

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5/21/2025, 10:14:57 AM

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/KYIV, May 19 (Reuters) - Donald Trump said after his call on Monday with President Vladimir Putin that Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations for a ceasefire, but the Kremlin said the process would take time and the U.S. president indicated he was not ready to join Europe with fresh sanctions to pressure Moscow. https://ebx.sh/wDoLyn

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5/21/2025, 9:42:45 AM

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, a deeper conversation is unfolding – not just about the future of cinema, but about who holds the keys to its past. As directors, producers and institutions meet to talk about the legacy of African cinema at a round table organised at the Cinémas du Monde pavilion, the question of who gets to preserve and share these stories has never felt more urgent. https://ebx.sh/bzAaFZ

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5/21/2025, 9:08:24 AM

Gayton McKenzie’s recent xenophobic rant singling out the employment of two Zimbabweans by the Market Theatre is Trumpian in its populist vulgarity. https://ebx.sh/LSNEsa

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5/21/2025, 11:38:29 AM

Surging AI demand increases energy consumption and requires vast volumes of water for cooling. A steady rise in AI infrastructure in a water-stressed region could abruptly trigger local ecological collapse or energy shortages. https://ebx.sh/iTjKCO

Daily Maverick

5/21/2025, 11:21:30 AM

CARTOON TUESDAY WITH RICO: Budget 3.0 blues https://ebx.sh/nomBbN

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5/21/2025, 9:27:58 AM

There has been much attention on the arrival of a group of Afrikaners to the US after Donald Trump’s call to welcome them as refugees. But what about Americans who have chosen to make South Africa their homes? We ask some of them how that happened and why it mattered to them. https://ebx.sh/afUa88

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5/21/2025, 9:57:16 AM

Four toddlers were burnt beyond recognition in a blaze at an overcrowded Mayfair house — one of 50 flagged slum properties ignored by Johannesburg officials for years. A ward committee member repeatedly warned the city, even submitting another dossier after the deadly Usindiso fire in 2023. No action was taken, and now a community mourns an avoidable loss. https://ebx.sh/bEChci