Ferial Haffajee is an Associate Editor at Daily Maverick. She covers a diverse range of topics including climate change, environmental issues, government and politics, as well as regional interests and world news, with a particular focus on Africa and the Russia-Ukraine War. Ferial's work has been featured in Cigalah Group, AllAfrica Global Media, Daily Maverick, The Namibian, and Currency.
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Ferial Haffajee's coverage predominantly centers around South African government and politics, with a significant focus on legal policy regulation. She also covers evolving stories related to these themes.
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By: Ferial Haffajee
President Cyril Ramaphosa launched South Africa's G20 presidency in Parliament today after the presidency was handed over to him during the G20 summit in Brazil last month. From incoming USA president Donald Trump's attendance to what's in it for South Africa, we answer all your G20 questions.
By: Ferial Haffajee
Ferial Haffajee asked Rand Water GM for communication Lydia Radebe about how the 86-hour water shutdown will make your life easier, and when supply will be restored.
The determined and resilient people of the City of Gold step up to solve the problems their wicked and gormless rulers create.
By: Ferial Haffajee
Two scenarios for South Africa's GNU, people's power, US president-elect Trump's ‘information disorder' and the G20 in SA.
By: Ferial Haffajee
Here are the six things we are watching in politics this week.
By: Ferial Haffajee
The Stan Sangweni biography and love story is a narrative about land, love, family and the state of South Africa. Ferial Haffajee interviewed author Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo about her love story to her ‘Dedi'.
Official communiques have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was built on the sweat of migrant workers, many from neighbouring countries.
Little wonder Thebe Ikalafeng’s memoir is racing up the charts of best-read books. Africa’s brand champion and South Africa’s uber-marketer has written a romp, part travelogue and part memoir.
This week’s focus is on a call for an inquiry into the Stilfontein miner deaths, the fate of the ANC’s structures in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, Davos, the Cabinet Lekgotla, Trump and a move to amend the B-BBEE codes of conduct.
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