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Newly elected President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa addresses Parliament, Cape Town, 15 February 2018. (EPA-EFE/Mike Hutchings/Pool)
Newly elected President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa addresses Parliament, Cape Town, 15 February 2018. EPA-EFE/Mike Hutchings/Pool

2018 The year of perseverance

  1. The end of an error
  2. SONA what?
  3. The yin & yang of Daily Maverick
  4. Paywalls and parapets
  5. Makwakwa mare, part 2
  6. Our Burning Planet
  7. Award-winning team
  8. Maverick Insider launches
  9. The Media Gathering blows the whistle
  10. Goodbye Gigaba
  11. Dlamini upended
  12. The great art heist
  13. Nothing left of the left
  14. Cue the bank heist
  15. Food, glorious food

2017 might have been a defining year for Daily Maverick, but sitting on Maverick laurels over the 12 months to come was not an option. Not least because, at the start of 2018, Scorpio and amaBhungane were still trawling through the trove of emails, connecting dots and investigating. In fact, the #GuptaLeaks would provide crucial information for years to come. There was no time off. The journalists had to keep pushing in order to ensure that the pressure remained on those implicated in State Capture.