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[Click here to read this message online.] Free Edition 4 December 2016 [Mail & Guardian Logo] Premium content from M&G's Daily Edition: [Mashaba shows chief risk officer the door] [News] | [Govan Whittles] Jo’burg mayor Herman Mashaba has let senior staffer Sinaye Nxumalo go. [DA’s Gana wants to win in Gauteng] [News] | [Dineo Bendile] He’s ambitious but says his move to the province was not motivated by a desire to become premier [Our gourmet trash is too posh for you] [Columnists] | [Rebecca Davis] With the aid of some hacker friends, I had a sneak peek at Ramsay’s email inbox. [​Old-style Boks not up to the game] [Sport] | [Thando Manana] If anything, a regression to an almost all-white team and yesterday’s tactics is behind their failure. [Silent Cyril up against the ropes] [National] | [Matuma Letsoalo], [Govan Whittles], [Dineo Bendile] The deputy president has been blasted for not coming to his boss’s defence at the NEC meeting. [Zuma down but still not out] [National] | [Dineo Bendile] The bruising NEC showdown has left the president bowed but stubbornly unbroken. [Curling lips, speaking tongues — Thandiswa Mazwai in tune at 40] [Friday] | [Lindokuhle Nkosi] Poet and singer Thandiswa Mazwai talks about intensity, integrity and sitting at the feet of your master [​Betting on addiction is a sure winner] [Business] | [Thalia Holmes] It is no coincidence that the biggest companies by far on the JSE trade on human weaknesses. [Tough times drive Black Friday] [Business] | [Lisa Steyn] Bricks-and-mortar and online retailers are sitting pretty, but did consumers really win? [​How to Zuma-proof the future] [Business] | [Lisa Steyn] Stop South Africa’s own man-made calamity from recurring with these simple steps. [​Pupils’ scores show change is possible] [Education] | [Vijay Reddy], [Mariette Visser], [Lolita Winnaar], [Fabian Arends] The improvement from 2003 to 2015 is welcome but differences between schools are a big concern. [​Democracy is a work in progress] [Analysis] | [Kgalema Motlanthe] The youth must be included in creating the kind of society the Freedom Charter envisaged. [​From love to death: Home front is girls and women’s war front] [Analysis] | [Yury Fedotov] Across the world tens of thousands of women and girls are being loved to death. [​How far Castro’s revolution had come] [Arts and Culture] | [Daryl Accone] He outlived his great comrade and compañero Che Guevara by a little over 49 years, but now Fidel Castro is dead. [​Steampunk unearths reality] [Arts and Culture] | [Gwen Ansell] This unflinching description of slavery reminds us that the ugly underbelly of the US is still alive. [The Lists: William Modisane’s 'Blame Me on History', Black Unity and Howlin' Wolf] [Arts and Culture] | [Arts desk] The Lists this week were compiled by Friday senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo and contributor Lindokuhle Nkosi. [Where is the white feminist movement in SA?] [Arts and Culture] | [Milisuthando Bongela] Where is white feminism for young white girls who are not starting groups at their schools about the things that are troubling them? [Embattled Barça pin hopes on captain] [Sport] | Reuters Real Madrid’s James Rodriguez will be also be hoping to shine during Saturday’s El Clásico. [​Innovate to get schooling ahead] [Education] | [Jamie Martin] Business as usual won’t get the job done. We must move fast and there are ways to boost education. [SA still bottom of the class in science and maths but there’s cause for some optimism] [Education] | [Prega Govender] Drilled into learning by rote, grade nines still fare dismally, but better than they used to. [Zim artists see with spiritual eyes] [Friday] | [Kwanele Sosibo] A social crisis caused by Zimbabwe’s economic disaster and being silenced has the country’s artists turning to spirituality and the outside world. [2016: What a sad and bad year for journalism] [Analysis] | [Glenda Daniels] Retrenchments, the threat of a media tribunal, a new Bill and mergers bode ill for newsrooms. [Q&A with a fake news writer] [Columnists] | [JS Smit] "That was a made-up story. Keep up." [The facts explode the child-grant myth] [Education] | [Athandiwe Saba] The increase in the number of beneficiaries has been minimal over the past five years. [​Geluksdal bites the Brakpan tailing dam's dust] [Environment] | [Sipho Kings] When the wind blows across DRDGold’s dump, grit covers the town and PM2.5 and PM10 particles lodge in people’s lungs and nose passages. [Tensions simmer over first-year university enrolments for 2017] [Education] | [Prega Govender] Student organisations have threatened to revolt against a decrease in enrolments of first-year university students and the capping of college numbers. [Justices disagree: Is this the beginning of the end of a divide in the ConCourt] [Columnists] | [Serjeant at the Bar] Dissent between the justices hints that some favour the executive, a worrying shift particularly at this time in South Africa’s political affairs [Subscribe to access this content] [Unsubscribe] [View online] [View PDF] [Pause Subscription] [Unsubscribe] | [Update Profile] | [View PDF] | [Pause Subscription] | [View Online] Email Powered By This email was sent to {EMAIL} on 04-12-2016 Mail & Guardian is intended for opt in communication only. If you feel this email is unsolicited please [report it] to us.