The Daily Maverick Show

Israeli Apartheid, African Debt, Marikana & Drones

Kingsley flies solo today. He explores the fallout from a UN report classifying Israel as an Apartheid state, why African debt is reaching critical levels, how drones are delivering life saving services and why almost 5 years on, there's still no justice for Marikana.

28 Mar 2017 52 min

Chagos Islands: 21st Century Colonialism (Update)

Fifty years ago the people of the Chagos Islands were forcefully removed from their homes and forced into exile. It had a devastating effect on their livelihood, culture and humanity. This year they may finally be able to return home.

21 Mar 2017 53 min

Around the News: Somaliland, Mozambique unrest & Uber

Kingsley Kipury and Greg Nicolson look at some of the biggest issues in the news this week... including Somaliland's fight for recognition, political unrest in Mozambique, and whether Uber is competing unfairly.

14 Mar 2017 51 min

Social Grants

Could 17 million South Africans not receive their social grants on April 1st? The team looks at the crisis around social grant disbursement - from the history to the future.

7 Mar 2017 50 min

News Round-Up

The team sits down with Ranjeni Munusamy and Simon Allison. They talk through the news, including a potential cabinet re-shuffle, who's set to be the next South African president, xenophobic attacks and South Africa's withdrawal from the ICC.

28 Feb 2017 50 min

Corruption & Collusion in SA

When large corporations come together to make sure that everyday South Africans have to pay more for basic goods and services, there is a transfer of wealth from average citizens to the wealthy. The team talks to experts about the culture of business collusion and the fight against it.

21 Feb 2017 48 min

Pontsho Pilane

Kingsley sits down with award-winning journalist Pontsho Pilane. She talks about her experience producing some of the best coverage of the #FeesMustFall movement via the Daily Vox, her switch to health journalism, and how she ended up presenting to a room full of members of parliament. Pontsho's story is that…

7 Feb 2017 1 hr 13 min

Around the News

The team runs through the biggest news stories from around the world - including Trump's executive orders, whether the ANC broke the law on their black ops war room... and we review Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's time as African Commission Chair.

31 Jan 2017 50 min

Apartheid Corruption, Big Pharma & Restorative Justice

The team talks to Noseweek's Martin Weltz about Absa and apartheid corruption. Then they delve into how patent law reform could save lives. Finally, they discuss restorative justice versus the criminalisation of hate crimes and hate speech.

24 Jan 2017 52 min

2017: Stories To Watch

The Daily Maverick team discusses some of the key stories it will be watching in 2017, from Trump to the ANC succession race and politics in The Gambia, Angola and Kenya.

17 Jan 2017 55 min

Antoinette Muller on Transformation in Cricket

Simon Allison speaks to Daily Maverick sports journalist Antoinette Muller about her longform article Beyond the Boundary, on South Africa's long history of racial exclusion in cricket and attempts to transform the sport.

13 Dec 2016 29 min

Winefarm exploitation, Standing Rock & Gambia decides

The team digs into a strike on Robertson winery where farmworkers complain of apartheid-era conditions, why 20,000 Americans are protesting against a pipeline, and how Gambia chose democracy.

6 Dec 2016 45 min

Around the News in 60 Minutes

The team talks about the looming disaster with social grants, the backlash around a national minimum wage, and why everyone is leaving the ICC.

22 Nov 2016 47 min

Black, African, Female & Queer

What's it like being black, African, female and queer? Kingsley sits down with Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Maneo Refileo Mohale to explore the unique pressures around visibility, representation, activism, and sexual health.

15 Nov 2016 53 min

US votes, State Capture & The Gambia

On US election day, the team talk to Ranjeni Munusamy in Pittsburgh, before breaking down the State Capture report and looking into repression ahead of the Gambian elections.

8 Nov 2016 51 min

Roundtable: We're missing the Big Picture

Kingsley and Greg are joined by Richard Poplak and Koketso Moeti talking through all the biggest stories of the past week.

1 Nov 2016 53 min

How to De-Radicalise an ISIS Recruit

Kingsley sits down with Jasmine Opperman, former spy turned security analyst. She once got a phone call from a distressed parent to help talk a teenager out of a decision to go to Syria and join ISIS. She explains how she did it and how she's gone on to do…

18 Oct 2016 57 min

Interview: Leigh-Ann Naidoo

Kingsley Kipury sits down with South African activist and former Olympian Leigh-Ann Naidoo. She describes her journey to activism, how she ended up on a boat to Gaza that got intercepted by Israeli forces and how South Africa might get itself out of the #FeesMustFall deadlock.

11 Oct 2016 56 min

Prisoners remanded & forgotten and #ColombiaDecides

Kingsley and Greg explore issues in the South African prison system that result in over 40,000 people in prisons awaiting trial for up 3 years. They then talk about the historic Colombia referendum that could have ended over 50 years of civil war and how this links to South Africa's…

4 Oct 2016 50 min

Maritime security, Ethiopia's protests & #HillaryvsTrump

The team explores why many African countries are now disputing their maritime borders, what has led to the 500 reported deaths in Ethiopia, and who won the first US Presidential debate.

27 Sep 2016 50 min