HeyJaredBheki C Simelane
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 13, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Daily Maverick
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 24, 2026
Latest articles
Zille is targeting the ANCâs heartland in Joburg, but voters are doubtful (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If the DA wants to win a majority in Johannesburg, itâll need to improve in Soweto. The party has pockets of support, but it faces an uphill battle. âI love the DA,â said Protea South resident Seela Phineas Malesa (67), a party poster proudly displayed in the window of his Soweto shack. Soweto, with its population of 1.2 million people, has always been an ANC stronghold thatâs seen as critical to winning the City of Johannesburg. With the ANC in freefall, the DAâs Joburg candidate, Hel
Soweto pensioner (97) finally gets RDP home after Daily Maverick report (opens the original)
Read excerpt
After decades of broken promises, 97-year-old Emily Mohapi has moved into her RDP home, with government officials handing her the keys last week. Emily Mohapiâs story is one of endurance and exclusion. The 97-year-old had lived in the Protea South informal settlement in Soweto, Johannesburg, since before 1996, when she applied for a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) house. Yet, when the programme took off in the area around 2012, she was left out. While others moved into formal ho
âWe stay in shitâ â Soweto awash in raw sewage as ageing system crumbles (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In Soweto, daily manhole bursts send sewage streaming through streets and rivers, starkly marking the breakdown of Johannesburgâs sewer network. Raw sewage is choking Soweto. During a four-week investigation into the township's failing infrastructure, Daily Maverick documented human waste spewing from at least 25 manholes â contaminating communities from Mofolo to Chiawelo. âWe stay in shit, we smell shit, and our children are playing in shit. What is human about us when we are subjected t
âGet out and pushâ â commuters dice with danger in Joburgâs dilapidated minibus taxis (opens the original)
Read excerpt
From missing brakes to pushing broken vehicles, Joburg commuters face daily terror in dilapidated minibus taxis â while struggling operators blame rising costs and a lack of state support. The taxi looked perfectly fine from the outside until we got on the road. We were taking it from the Alexandra rank in Pan African Mall and were seated at the back. Then we noticed that the driverâs rearview mirror was nowhere to be seen and the brakes were not working properly. Every stop at the robots wa
Joburg residents divided over Moreroâs inner-city âclean-upâ campaign (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Mayor Dada Morero has vowed to restore order and cleanliness to the inner city. Some residents have seen progress, while others say thatâs a delusion. Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero took a defiant stance last week after a construction vehicle ripped through informal tradersâ structures at Marble Towers, a popular shopping district, in the inner city. âWe are enforcing the law, and those who continue to defy our by-laws and court orders will face the consequences,â said Morero. Since Octo
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 50K sites
For Daily Maverick, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.