2017 The Game Changer

1. The Game Changer
2. Life Esidimeni
3. Chaps, this is goodbye
4. Not all heroes wear capes
5. ‘Who do I go to? Where do I take it?’
6. The plans kick into gear
7. Treachery is afoot
8. The heat rises
9. Meltdown
10. The scramble begins
11. Reckoning with the #GuptaLeaks
12. #GuptaLeaks postscript
13. Pauli’s first zinger
14. All hands on deck
15. The Cape water crisis
16. Wondering about ‘Operation Wonder’
17. Zapiro v Mbalula
18. Tiso Deathstar

2017 was Daily Maverick’s biggest year since its inception. It also brought 12 months of turbulence unprecedented in democratic South Africa. The Life Esidimeni scandal shocked the nation. Struggle hero Ahmed Kathrada passed away. South Africans took to the streets in their thousands to demonstrate for a sitting president’s removal. The Western Cape was seized by a terrifying water crisis. And, of course, there was #GuptaLeaks.