The Daily Maverick Show

Robert Mugabe has been replaced after 37 years in power. Professor David Moore and Dewa Mavhinga from Human Rights Watch discuss what it means for the country.

Scholar and anti-apartheid activist Raymond Suttner and Daily Maverick journalist Richard Poplak talk about the ANC, a month before the party's elective conference.

The Daily Maverick team look at some of the biggest issues in news this week, including the ANC election race, China's President Xi Jinpeng's consolidation power, elections in Japan, and Life Esidimeni.

Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol's 1971 death was ruled a suicide until the courts last week said he had been tortured and murdered by police. Timol's nephew Imtiaz Cajee unpacks the judgment and what it means for the country.

Kenya's Supreme Court ruled that the recent presidential elections were flawed. Writer and political activist Nanjala Nyabola unpacks what the judgment means for the country and the road to the rerun of the elections.

After the recent massacre in Las Vegas, J Brooks Spector discusses the history, lobby groups, politics and ideologies that has seen the United State's flooded with deadly weapons.

Pauli Van Wyk from Daily Maverick's investigative unit, Scorpio, explains KPMG's recent apology to the country and the response from SARS.

Daily Maverick's Richard Poplak discusses the calamity across SA politics. Then the team talks about what Juba's last post office means for South Sudan, and the dodgy networks looting Zimbabwe's diamond fields.

The team looks at three elections - Rwanda, Kenya and Angola - to see how the democratic process is playing out in the three countries. Kingsley says farewell after hosting his last show. Greg will continue bringing you the insights every week.

Kingsley sits down with Professor Gqola to discuss her new book, Reflecting Rogue: Inside the Mind of a Feminist. She shares her journey through academia, feminism, blackness and South Africa.

Activist Mark Heywood recently released his new book 'Get Up! Stand Up!' He comes into the studio to talk about his life in activism and civil society in South Africa.

Ranjeni Munusamy joins the team to talk about the ANC's challenges ahead of its December conference, and beyond.

How do you raise children in a racist, sexist, unequal and violent world? The team speaks to three parents on how they negotiate the challenges.

Daily Maverick's Richard Poplak joins the team to talk about what we learned, or failed to learn, from the ruling party's policy conference.

The Daily Maverick team is joined by Pauli Van Wyk and Kristen Van Schie. They talk #GuptaLeaks and touch on continental stories from Rwanda, Tanzania and the Chagos islands.

The taxi industry is often seen as violent, unsafe and unregulated. In the wake of a massive strike, we delve into the system, its past, present and future.

The team is joined by amaBhungane investigative journalist Craig McKune to talk #GuptaLeaks. Lorato Palesa Modongo then tells us about a new Setswana feminist dictionary.

The team looks at the impact of the Gupta emails and analyses Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba's first nine months, before tackling SADC politics.

Patrick Wisani was recently sentenced for beating his girlfriend to death. We use this case as an example of how the systems in place to prevent and respond to gender-based violence fall short. We then speak to experts about the limitations of criminal justice, what prevention interventions are working, and the obstacles to scaling what works.

The team digs into the deliberation on whether parliament can vote via secret ballot. Then they turn to the South African food crisis, before asking why pirates kidnapping for ransom is on the rise.

Ranjeni Munusamy joins the team to talk about Pravin Gordhan and court action against President Zuma, Vuwani and SAPS corruption.

Kingsley looks at important news across the continent - including charges of crimes against humanity against former Chadian President Hissene Habre, Zambia's President Edgar Lungu charging his opposition with treason, and Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi imprisoned for calling the president a pair of buttocks on Facebook.

Kingsley sits down with award-winning indigenous Australian filmmaker, Rachel Perkins. She shares her journey of documenting the indigenous Australian story and provoking national conversations about the country's past.

South Africa continues to face a myriad of challenges. Mobilising and movement building is seen as one answer. But how do we do it? We ask activists Jay Naidoo, Anele Yawa and Busisiwe Seabe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 of someone who consistently defies the odds, overcoming sexism and structural racism to be one of best young journalists in the country. She tells her story, all with her characteristic humour and no holds barred honesty.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 this for more and more young people around South Africa. We also learn why she thinks the caliphate is imploding and why we should all be worried about current South African and global counter-terrorism efforts.

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.