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Presidential Climate Commission Director @CrispianOlver says it's very easy to be extremely depressed about our electricity situation at the moment but behind the scenes there's a lot of reform happening. #Earthgathering
About to kick things off at @dailymaverick The Gathering: Earth Edition #Earthgathering
"The outbreak of a primitive illness, which the Romans eradicated in their midst more than 2,000 years ago.. in an industrialised region in the most industrialised province of the most industrialised country on the continent..."🤯 #CholeraOutbreak
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[WATCH] Daily Maverick presents Questions Answered at the 55th ANC Conference with Queenin Masuabi. Day One.
You asked and our expert newsroom answered. Get to know the who, where, what and how of the #ANCElects2022 Conference. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6De_da…
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When a Nelson Mandela Bay mother finally found help for her starving five-month-old baby, it was almost too late for the infant, who is fighting for her life after she was kept alive with cheap cooldrink powder because the family did not have any other ... dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Investigative journalists @Poplak and @DianaNeille set out on a road trip through post-uprising South Africa, in search of answers to help explain what is happening to the country’s democracy.
Listen to this new limited audio docu-series: dailymaverick.co.za/the-high…
An infuriating 'big picture' read that explains much of our current load shedding crisis: Grim Reippp(er) — undoing the choke-hold on SA’s renewable energy programme - dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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"Flushing out the bad agents in big data leaks". This is the mission of team "Bad Will Hunting" of our #JournalismAI Fellowship. Check out the important & amazing work of @AletLaw @tokmetzis @heleenemanuel @chrismoranuk and the rest of the team, they wrote a great summary 👇
🤝A collaboration between journalists from @dailymaverick, @guardian & @FTM_eu, aims to build an AI pipeline to help investigative journalists identify people of interest in large datasets. Find out more about their #JournalismAI Fellowship journey:
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Enoch Godongwana has nothing to do with this tweet, but please pay attention to the fact that today is 10 years since the police killed 34 miners at #Marikana. @dailymaverick's journalists look back:
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🇿🇦🤝🇬🇧🤝🇳🇱 @AletLaw & Tinashe Munyuki from @dailymaverick partner w/ @guardian’s @chrismoranUK & Luis Flores and @tokmetzis & Heleen Emanuel from @FTM_nl to use NLP and entity extraction to support investigative journalists in searching and comparing massive datasets.
When you live in a country where you're relieved when you find out a murder was motivated by occultism, and not race.😪 news24.com/news24/southafric…
Never attended a committee meeting in the last two Parliaments. Our new Speaker.
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In our quest for this simulacrum of justice we have lost all sense of proportion and scale. We hold in equal contempt a war criminal and a fiction writer who too transparently borrows details from someone else’s life. It’s hard to calibrate how we engage.. nytimes.com/2021/07/17/opini…
In 4 days, looters have condemned our mothers and sisters to a life of hardship news24.com/w24/selfcare/well… via @w24
'Meanwhile, ANC politicians get a free pass to "protest in solidarity" with the same students and communities their actions have led them to protest to begin with.'
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🎉🏆Amazing work from the #GMA2021 national brands finalists in the Best Use of Video category: @denmarkdotdk @Expressen @infobae @News24 @timesofindia @VGTV ow.ly/eonz50DVJyr
I've been working on @News24's Covid-19 'remembrance wall' since June 2020 and it's been the most moving experience of my career: tragic, sad, inspiring and uplifting all at once. We are all equal in death. specialprojects.news24.com/c…
Doctors are starting to see the effects of Covid-19 on “long-haulers”, people who weren’t initially hit hard by the virus but are suffering the long term effects of it. via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/doctors-beg…
