Daily Maverick will make the DM168 e-edition free to all registered users from Friday, 25 September 2026, in celebration of World News Day on Monday, 28 September. Anyone who signs up for a free Daily Maverick online account with their email address will be able to read the full digital edition of DM168 each week at no cost.
DM168 is the newspaper you read to know what happened this week. Its editors carefully select the week’s stories that count in one place, with the context to make sense of them. Read it every week, and you’re properly informed.
That kind of curation carries more weight in the weeks ahead. South Africans vote in local government elections on 4 November, and the decisions made at the ballot box will shape the services people live with every day: water, electricity, roads, housing. Voters will be making those choices while rumour and disinformation compete hard for their attention, which is why a weekly read they can trust is essential right now.
The move ties into the purpose of World News Day, when more than 1,000 newsrooms in more than 100 countries make a shared case for trusted journalism. The day falls on 28 September because it is also the United Nations’ International Day for Universal Access to Information. This year’s campaign message asks the public to “Know the facts. Understand what matters. Choose trusted journalism. Because it’s your right to know.”
For Daily Maverick, whose mission is Defend Truth, opening DM168 to registered readers is a way of acting on that message. It is in keeping with Daily Maverick’s commitment to independent, public interest journalism that people can reach when they need it.
Branko Brkic, Daily Maverick’s co-founder and former editor-in-chief, and a co-organiser of World News Day, makes the case in his World News Day op-ed: “[y]our right to know is only real if someone is doing the work of making information easy to find, check and, above all, true.” DM168 does that work every week, and opening it to registered users puts it within reach of anyone who wants it.
Editor of DM168 Heather Robertson reinforces why a weekly read that does not disappear down a homepage black hole is a vital information tool for voters: “Voters need to decide who they want to fix our broken cities by the details: who delivers, who doesn’t, and who is telling the truth. DM168 gives readers a weekly read they can trust, so they go to the polls on 4 November informed rather than persuaded by noise.”
How to read DM168 for free
Visit www.dailymaverick.co.za/168/ and log in or register for free to find the latest edition of DM168.
