Nelson Mandela beaming at his 90th birthday celebrations. Johannesburg, August 2008. (EPA/Jon Hrusa)
Nelson Mandela beaming at his 90th birthday celebrations. Johannesburg, August 2008. EPA/Jon Hrusa

2013 The baobab falls

  1. The starting pistol
  2. The Guptas have landed
  3. Behind enemy lines
  4. Rules of retraction
  5. The chronicles of Nkandla
  6. The death of a lifetime
  7. Critical but stable
  8. The saddest day
  9. Aftermath
  10. GoodbiMaverick

After the mayhem of 2012, surely 2013 would be a calmer year when it came to South African current events. Surely? In reality, Daily Maverick had barely returned from their summer holidays when some of the biggest stories of the decade started to break.