STRAIGHT OUT OF PRETORIA: THE NEWS FRESHLY SQUEEZED
Marianne Thamm, Associate Editor, Daily Maverick
Monday 26 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES R200; Staff and students R150
VENUE Baxter Theatre Concert Hall
This performance is part of the Daily Maverick series of lectures.
Every day, when the sun gently peeks over the horizon, we wake up to a South Africa that sometimes feels like a chapter in a tragi-comic graphic novel.
There’s a man in Gauteng drilling for water right into the Gautrain tunnel. There’s a minister announcing that we should be calm, that the country is ‘stable and safe’ despite a coup, violence, crime and terrorism. Nothing to see here … just walk on.
Pretoria-born investigative journalist Marianne Thamm is back on stage with a new piece of ‘performance journalism’, Straight Out of Pretoria: The News Freshly Squeezed.
Thamm won a Naledi Award in 2025 for her satire Round of Applause – South Africa Still Standing, also known as Vuisvoos Maar Nog Regop.
Anything can and will happen, but Thamm promises to include a few of the previous favourite stories for ‘padkos’.
Come and laugh on the edge of the madness of the world.
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