Daily Maverick, the online South African daily, was launched by Branko Brkic in 2009 and had a readership of 12 million monthly unique visitors as of 20 March 2023. The #GuptaLeaks, Daily Maverick’s most. Brkic also launched and edited Timbila, Brainstorm, Maverick, and Empire magazines, and 168, South Africa’s final weekend newspaper. In June 2018, he won the Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity, considered South Africa’s premier journalism award. He started his book publishing career in 1984, in what was then Yugoslavia. Highlights of his publication list included The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Complete Greek Tragedies, and the Miroslav Gospel, which was included in Unesco’s Memory of the World Register of documentary heritage of global significance upon republication.