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Sinkholes are collapsing major arterial roads, opening inside upmarket residential estates and even beneath shops and factories as illegal miners tunnel under Johannesburg, forcing businesses and residents to spend small fortunes on emergency repairs and temporary infrastructure just to keep operating. Daily Maverick’s Anna Cox reports. 

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Imagine growing up in South Africa without any legal proof that you exist. Thousands of children are trapped in a backlog of birth registration applications, leaving them unable to access the documents they need and forcing their caregivers into a lengthy bureaucratic struggle. This is the hidden cost of being invisible to the state. Daily Maverick’s Tamsin Metelerkamp reports. 

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Cape Town’s iconic Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens remain a breathtaking sight, but experts warn the institution behind the beauty is in quiet crisis. Collapsing systems, vanishing expertise, and suffocating red tape are undoing what generations built. Daily Maverick’s Don Pinnock explains.

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The marches are done. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis sits down with reporters Lerato Mutsila, Felix Dlangamandla and Naledi Mashishi — fresh off the ground in eThekwini, Joburg CBD and the Garden Route — to ask the talk about the day and ask the question: what happens now, in the townships and villages, when no one will be watching?

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South Africa is experiencing its strongest anti-migrant backlash in years. But when we investigated one of the most successful online campaigns driving this movement, we found evidence suggesting its real motivations may not be what supporters believe. Daily Maverick’s Rebecca Davis explains.

 

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