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Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie made repeated visits to JSE-listed technology group Blu Label before it sold its Ticketpro subsidiary to a consortium linked to his political party, fuelling suspicions about his…
Sleep hygiene is one of the first things we reach for when we battle to get to bed. Yet, it is often undoing our coping with sleep loss that makes the biggest difference.
KAMPALA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Ugandan citizens returning to the country with a history of travel to Democratic Republic of Congo will be quarantined for 21 days, Health Minister Chris Baryomunsi said on Sunday as Uganda…
SAO PAULO, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term on Sunday, the country's electoral court said, in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global…
October’s JSC interviews exposed inconsistent scrutiny, unfilled leadership posts and muddled procedures, raising fresh questions about fairness, independence and accountability.
The real power of this change would be to remove the direct link between party interests and the interests of top managers. A new white paper wants to create a professional class of top city administrators, people who…
South Africa is framed as a key growth market for the payment sector, but modernising how we pay is not straightforward, and neither is ensuring that modernisation benefits ordinary people.
South Africa is on the brink of local elections. Meanwhile, the lines between various politicians, allegedly dodgy characters and suspicious activities have blurred more than ever.
Joining a night patrol in Kempton Park meant walking streets I’d normally avoid after sunset. Surrounded by darkness and mindful of the recent murders of women in Ekurhuleni, I felt an unsettling fear in the place I’ve…
ORLEANS, France, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner in next year's French presidential election, formally launched her campaign on Sunday with a promise to restore order and national…
Warnings about a failing treatment plant went unheeded before more than 400 people fell ill following a chlorine shortage. Now, Bronkhorstspruit residents say they are struggling to find safe water as sewage spills onto…
Healthcare in Gqeberha and surrounds will receive a major boost as medical specialists invest in the development of the new state-of-the-art Baywest Private Hospital – the first of its kind in the city in more than 40…
A complaint to the CRL Rights Commission and questions over the IEC’s vetting process have intensified scrutiny of an incident in which a man who admits he lacks full sign language skills interpreted at an election…
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said its main airport resumed operations at two terminals on Sunday even as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis vowed to keep striking the facility, which they called a "military target".
Sewage spills, rampant invasive vegetation and relentless cable theft are undermining the Baakens Valley, a vital green corridor running through Gqeberha. Environmentalists and local representatives warn that poor…
Staff at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital in Kariega say they are routinely exposed to violence while trying to care for patients. Their union wants more security personnel at the trauma unit and tighter controls on who…
Liza Key transformed South Africa’s film scene, challenging apartheid censorship, nurturing filmmakers and bringing humanity to stories of injustice, opening new possibilities for South African storytelling.
We are living through an entire constellation of tech revolutions firing at once. How we adapt to this compounding acceleration is the open question of our age.
As households cut back on shopping and restaurant meals, investors are questioning whether South Africa’s consumer stocks can withstand the pressure.
South Africa’s water crisis is worsened by municipal funding systems that allow water revenue and subsidies to be diverted to other services. We need legislative reforms to ring-fence water funding and ensure it is…
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms human labour, South Africa faces a critical choice: allow AI to displace workers or actively steer its adoption to augment human capabilities, protect jobs and drive…
Nelson Mandela Bay has spent millions on its Route 67 heritage trail, but crime, neglect and broken facilities are keeping visitors away from the historic centre. Many of the fixes are straightforward.
British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore hits paydirt again with another engaging yet thoughtful volume, this time covering the past 125 years of the entire Middle East and Maghreb.
In a world skewed toward cynicism and fear, disciplined optimism and immediate action remain our most powerful tools to unlock potential and drive meaningful change.
Criminal charges have been laid after officials in Durban halted the shipping of several specially protected South African baobab trees, allegedly destined for a ‘landscaping project’ in the Black Sea nation of Georgia.
AI models do not know how South Africans will vote on 4 November 2026. Yet people increasingly use them to understand the world, and their answers can help shape the reality they merely appear to describe.
French fans and the La Rochelle club did their country proud on an emotional day of Champions Cup matches played in the shadow of tragedy.
Two Johannesburg teenagers campaign for junior mayor, putting youth mental health, civic duty and equal opportunity at the centre of their visions for the city.
NAIROBI, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Kenya has confirmed one more Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections in the country to eight, Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth said on Sunday.
CALGARY, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Flames that killed four Canadian soldiers and left 19 people in critical condition began with a smoldering grass fire that quickly grew in an Alberta base's training area where personnel were…
Ralph Stanfield and his wife Nicole Johnson will appear in the Western Cape High Court this week alongside 12 co-accused on charges of murder, attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition as well as…
The ongoing judicial reviews may delay implementation of the National Health Insurance, but the Constitution is clear on citizens’ fundamental right to quality healthcare.
Two cases this year show that nihilistic violent extremism is no longer a foreign phenomenon. The more recent incident in Umhlali carries the hallmark characteristics of nihilistic violent extremism, a threat which…
Media groups are challenging the ‘blanket secrecy’ in the R12-million State Security Agency trial, seeking open proceedings and evidence-specific restrictions to protect national security without undermining public…
Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States has resumed providing Ukraine with critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, after a brief pause, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in…
With the Lifesaving World Championships starting on 25 November, repairs, equipment procurement and beachfront safety remain under scrutiny. Community groups are helping with preparations, but a recurring sewage spill…
Once regarded as the ‘crown prince’ of Kruger’s rangers, Rodney Landela has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a rhino in 2016. The conviction rested on extensive forensic evidence that turned a wild dog…
Never before has South Africa faced a commission of inquiry which has acted with such swift determination – in just over a year – rounding up significant numbers of individuals who have turned up in evidence and…
North End Lake in Gqeberha is deteriorating as damaged gabions, mounting rubbish and poor maintenance threaten a once-thriving fishing and recreational destination.
PARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron condemned on Sunday what he called the ‘dissenters’ who looted and vandalised cities in ‘shocking’ scenes across France on the sidelines of protests over the…
These local elections were always going to provide probably the toughest test for the parties in the national coalition. Despite signs that campaigning is testing the current arrangement, the longer-term interests of…
With extreme weather events hitting much of the developing world, including South Africa, throughout the year, the government is set on moving beyond mitigation and barreling toward adaptation at this year’s climate…
After nearly a decade fighting to clear his name, Roderick Munnick thought he could finally put his unfair dismissal behind him when the labour court ruled in his favour. Aspen Pharmacare’s decision to appeal has…
After weeks of anger over prolonged blackouts, Johannesburg property owners taken underground by City Power at Central Substation have seen first-hand the scale of cable theft and ageing infrastructure. But across the…
Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy has tried to ease the concerns of a shipping industry which is losing patience with Durban harbour, but workers say they have been short-changed by Transnet’s private sector alliance.
OpenAI’s dump of more than 300 maths proofs – solutions or partial solutions – to some of mathematics’ most enduring problems has understandably shaken the international maths community to its core, if not destroying…
This doesn’t clear up the messy recruitment process for the country’s national carrier CEO position, but at least the board can continue.
After a dramatic recovery from its EOH legacy problems, ICT services provider iOCO faces a crucial test: allocate forecast cash flow wisely while growing its core businesses.
What do they want? Food justice.
In most of South Africa’s metros no party is expected to win a majority in the 4 November elections. Here, you can build your own coalition in four metros, based on different polls, to see how different parties could…
If everyone involved was being honest, Pretoria’s location made it a bad place to set up a carmaking hub. But it can become the gateway to Africa if all the stakeholders, especially the state, work at it.
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s ruling on the King Air Industria appeal will set the terms for hyperscale development across South Africa.
SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea’s military said, marking Pyongyang’s fourth launch in a month and following Seoul’s recent…
DUBAI/RIYADH, Oct 11 (Reuters) - One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a new attack Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen's Iran-aligned…
After protests over upfront fees at Rhodes University, a Unisa business school expert says the fix is not always more money, but a better-run funding system that pays universities directly.
More than a year after prosecutor Tracy Brown was murdered, her former colleagues say their safety concerns remain unresolved. The Department of Justice says security has been strengthened, but prosecutors are still…
South Africa celebrated a landmark agreement to protect African penguins from food scarcity. Eighteen months later, penguins are losing weight, sardines have died along thousands of kilometres of coastline and…
Mass-planting spekboom to repair damaged farmlands in the Eastern Cape, paid for through the carbon markets, got supersized with the arrival of weighty Global North investment. Could this mark a new era for African…
A MAC’s Motorcycle Club member was murdered in a Pretoria shooting. As tensions flare within South Africa’s biking community, there are also growing concerns that outlaw biker gangs with connections to cartel drug…
South Africa 284 all out (David Bedingham 49, Pat Cummins 3-54) trail Australia (Matt Renshaw 190, Wiaan Mulder 4-68,) by 139 runs on day three.
The PwC’s latest mining figures and global inequality reports should prompt a fundamental re-evaluation of mineral wealth distribution. High corporate profits can’t justify an extractive status quo that deepens wealth…
Oct 11 (Reuters) - At least 72 artisanal miners were killed in an airstrike in northern Sudan on Saturday, rights monitor Emergency Lawyers said on Sunday, in the second such incident in several months.
A banner carried in Durban by South Africans told neighbouring governments to fetch their people. The names on a 1973 sleeve measure the debt South Africa owes the rest of the continent.
With El Niño bringing hotter and drier conditions to South Africa this summer, the country is facing an urgent reminder that more must be done to prepare for future climate risks.
South Africa could not avoid the latest fuel price increase because the Houthis choked off Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea exit, but that starts another conversation altogether about who benefits.
A stronger rand, higher shipping costs and collapsing domestic iron ore volumes exposed the risks of Afrimat’s operating leverage, despite diversified revenue streams.
Oct 11 (Reuters) - The US is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, the Financial Times reported…
Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero promised residents that his administration would not hide financial misconduct or the misuse of public money. Yet, within days, the City acknowledged that it had failed to respond within…
When her plans to become a scientist fell through, a young woman from Polokwane took a chance as a waitress at a burger joint in Nelson Mandela Bay. Almost two years later, and after a wager with her boss, MJ Moeta will…
The ANC and DA may need each other to govern Johannesburg, but competing interests, bruising personalities and the risk of political betrayal could derail a historic pact.
The judgment, hailed as a ‘profound victory for wild animals’, brings relief to conservation and animal protection organisations that have worked for years to secure explicit recognition of animal wellbeing.
A narrow Constitutional Court ruling on asylum applications was distorted online into false claims about citizenship, grants, jobs and voting, fuelling anti-foreigner mobilisation in Durban.
You have to be more than a little crazy to want to be the mayor of our biggest city.
The asylum controversy reveals how closed refugee offices, procedural barriers and Home Affairs’ failures have left legitimate applicants unable to seek protection.
As supercharged El Niño conditions bring dangerous temperatures across South Africa, mortality predictions, though jarring, only scratch the surface of the crisis.
Even if AI solves science’s hardest problems, inequality may deepen as ownership, access and adoption remain concentrated among the wealthy.
Two boys, aged eight and nine, have died in separate drowning incidents at Camps Bay Tidal Pool and Kleinmond Main Beach Lagoon.
LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Britain's Green Party voted on Sunday to class Zionism as a form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as "a body…
Next month’s election is likely to reveal that the ANC has fallen further, but the real question is about the rate of decline.
Oct 4 (Reuters) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, following US President Donald Trump's push to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial…
EFF president Julius Malema promised Nelson Mandela Bay residents free water and electricity, bigger RDP houses, more social grants and free school meals and uniforms – pledges that stretch well beyond the powers and…
A conservationist has opened a criminal case alleging tonnes of road-building waste were dumped beside the Baakens River, burying kingfisher nests and potentially killing eggs and chicks during breeding season.
South Africa’s devastating gender-based violence crisis demands early classroom intervention rather than reactive legal measures. Such initiatives have been successful in several countries, including Sierra Leone.
In November, you will make the choice that directly shapes the reality in which you live for the next five years, and that choice is starkly binary: vote for governments that pull our municipalities back from the brink,…
His all-round ability keeps improving and it’s rare among his generation of SA cricketers.
New sanctions against South Africa and the placing of white crosses on the National Mall in Washington, DC last week speak to a deep connection between white nationalist politics of both South Africa and the US.
South Africa is battered by violence, corruption and division. Yet beneath the grief, a stubborn spirit still breathes — refusing to surrender hope and its future.
The young mountain bike rider’s stellar Go2Sea performance earned him more than applause: a bike of his own and support to pursue his racing ambitions.
In this extract of her memoir, ‘My Best Friend ED’, Katherine Luden traces the origins of her debilitating illness.
The City of Johannesburg has pushed the release of records detailing R4.07bn in alleged financial misconduct beyond the 4 November elections, after an admitted nine-day administrative delay and an extension calculated…
NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The United States removed its B-1 bombers from a UK air base one week after several men were arrested there on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, a Pentagon official said on Sunday.
Oct 4 (Reuters) - Britain is considering imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports amid concerns that Beijing is flooding the market with state-subsidised cars, the Times newspaper reported on Sunday.
The 2027 Cricket World Cup, to be co-hosted by South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, is a golden opportunity for Cricket South Africa to boost its dwindling financial resources.
The former chief of staff to Sport Minister and Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie is the new CEO of Cricket South Africa’s incumbent ticketing vendor. This follows the sale of Ticketpro to a women-owned…
From Gauteng apartments and South African offices to Polish industrial assets and US shopping centres, Emira’s diversified portfolio keeps investors focused on what management buys next.
The PIC says resilience, oversight and long-term investment can protect public wealth through market shocks — because every rand entrusted to it has a name, and every one of those names deserves an answer.
It seems the Public Investment Corporation CEO is on a charm offensive with South Africa’s news media, and even Daily Maverick is on the list of olive branch recipients.
What happens when consumers stop browsing and send AI agents to shop for them? Amazon’s abrupt ban on Meta’s Muse exposes the brewing battle for online retail dominance.
On World Teachers’ Day, South Africa honours 485,000 educators — celebrating their impact while calling for less bureaucracy, better support and safer schools.
Eric Gardiner and Mamello Raboroko are bringing a South African flair to gaming. Now they want to empower other young people to do the same.
Synecdoche is an unusual word but capable of some heavy lifting. Applied to the baboons of the Cape Peninsula it’s particularly appropriate.
Andile Lungisa went from ANC mayoral hopeful to candidate list casualty after the party’s vetting process raised questions about his eligibility. Now he wants the courts to decide whether the ANC had the right to remove…
Cape Town has unveiled plans to replace its unfinished Foreshore freeways with a new bridge and tunnel, while unlocking 15 hectares for housing, public space and a new neighbourhood. But the cost, funding model and…
LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Taylor Swift won the most coveted honor at MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday with video of the year for her showgirl-inspired "The Fate of Ophelia", which she dedicated to the late…
FAIRFORD, England, Sept 27 (Reuters) - British police arrested five men on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences on Sunday near an air base that has been used by the US to strike Iran, after a tip-off that…
The State Information Technology Agency can finally set a strategy and follow through on the communications minister’s mandate to improve the citizen experience of government.
When my own children understood why the investigation mattered but did not want to read it as we had published it, we realised we had a problem.
The testimony of Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni at the Madlanga Commission is a reminder of how powerful the taxi industry, and elements of it, have become in our society.
Canada, Norway and Ukraine will convene foreign ministers and international partners this month to support Ukraine’s efforts to return, rehabilitate and reintegrate Ukrainian deported children, detained civilians and…
Nelson Mandela Bay’s newly redrawn Ward 5 is shaping up for a battle between two former DJs, with former radio DJ Daron Mann of the Democratic Alliance (DA) taking on former club DJ Renaldo Gouws of the Freedom Front…
When a street becomes a dumping ground, it sends a quiet message that the place someone calls home doesn’t matter enough to protect. No one should have to watch their own address become synonymous with rubble and black…
Since January 2026, at least 196 people have been gunned down in mass shootings in South Africa. Ten people were fatally shot in Cape Town, while 17 were killed in Carletonville, Johannesburg, pointing to a trend of…
In the first article of a new Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer in South Africa, Biénne Huisman speaks to rugby referee Aimee Barrett-Theron and cancer warrior Joyce Witbooi, who helps women navigate…
A Kensington community group has been trying to revive the historic Joburg suburb, but residents and businesses have endured months of mud, dust and disrupted access as Johannesburg Water replaces pipes.
Mark Swilling traverses Global North-Global South contradictions – connecting academic reflections and activist interventions, writing, teaching and convening knowledge networks that offer an African perspective in a…
The Ekurhuleni killings have intensified fears over South Africa’s femicide crisis, exposing women’s daily vulnerability and persistent failures in policing, prevention and accountability.
To understand Remgro’s current share pricing, we must first unpack intrinsic net asset value and what the current masters of the house Johann Rupert built think the company’s assets are worth.
South Africa has developed a peculiar evidentiary test for Black competence. Failure tends to come with names attached but success somehow belongs to everyone.
A new plan by the City of Joburg to privately lease portions of Rhodes Park has sparked a residents’ petition and renewed scrutiny of Joburg’s treatment of public parks and sporting land. From Field and Study Park to…
