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This is a selection of the best stories published in the newspaper’s Africa section this year
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The best of the M&G’s Africa coverage in 2019

This is a selection of the best stories published in the newspaper’s Africa section this year, in no particular order

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Former NDPP Mxolisi Nxasana. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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LIVESTREAM: Mxolisi Nxasana appears before state capture inquiry

The former NDPP is set to appear before the Zondo commission

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President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo Archive)
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LIVESTREAM: Ramaphosa to address the nation on Public Protector Bosasa report

The president will brief the media on the public protector’s report

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Former president Jacob Zuma rejected outright attempts on Monday by the ANC top six leaders to secure an agreement from him to appear before the Zondo commission into state capture.
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LIVESTREAM: Zuma in the hot seat at the Zondo Commission

Former president Jacob Zuma’s appearance will give him the opportunity to give evidence before the commission

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Blurb: Read the July 5 to 11 edition of the Mail & Guardian

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AG Kimi Makwetu. (Lisa Hnatowicz/Beeld)
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LIVESTREAM: Auditor General to report on municipal finances

Auditor General Kimi Makwetu will release the latest audit of the state of municipalities throughout the country

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Read the unembargoed May 3 to 9 edition of the Mail & Guardian

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All the articles in this week’s Mail & Guardian are free to read.
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Unembargoed: March 8 to 14

Poll dancing: Party lists, coalitions and the Gauteng province.

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Although he had been in power for just over a year when the country went to the polls, owing to the early recall of his predecessor, Jacob Zuma (R), in February 2018, the election of the ANC was a stamp of approval for Cyril Ramaphosa (L) to lead South Africa through a sound domestic and foreign policy.
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Zuma used spooks to target Ramaphosa — report

According to the report, the SSA targeted Ramaphosa in the run-up to his becoming president of the ANC and then state president

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Before leaving journalism in 1987, Eugene Saldanha displayed a keen bent for human-interest stories
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Saldanha’s legacy lives

This year, with support from the Summit Education Trust, Dinonofo Pico was selected as the Eugene Saldanha fellow.

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The reward for the cop charging Arron Banks’s former partner with criminal activities was allegedly property worth R20-million. (Getty Images)
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How the Brexit financier ‘turned’ the Hawks general

Top cop allegedly paid R20-million in properties.

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AFRICAN GLOBAL GROUP

Unembargoed: March 1 — 7

South Africa’s system failures: Paedophile allowed into the classroom, and SAA pilot flew for 25 years — with no licence

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During Agrizzi’s testimony on Monday, it emerged that Bosasa had to increase the bribe money paid to the department of correctional services by R250 000 a month when Moyane was appointed. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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LIVESTREAM: Agrizzi to conclude his testimony at state capture inquiry

Watch Day 9 of former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi’s testimony

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Unembargoed: January 11 to 17 2019

In the M&G: a spin doctor’s plot to get the housing agency to fund her wedding

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When it was opened, in 1990, Lagos’ Third Mainland Bridge handled 1 000 cars a day. Today it’s closer to 70 000. (AFP)
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The best of the M&G’s Africa coverage in 2018

The Mail & Guardian prides itself on in-depth, first-hand reporting on and from the African continent

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