If our economy was the weather, it would be a bone-chilling fog bank rolling in from all sides with no visibility, no direction, and certainly no sunshine in sight. It is a climate where only those ...

If we act now, if we take the National Dialogue process seriously and put shoulder to the wheel, it is not too late. This country can be fixed. The values of 1994 are not dead – they are dormant, ...

As the Government of National Unity marks one year in power, Daily Maverick staffers give their take on who’s dithered and who’s delivered in Cabinet.

Organisers hope the new tournament will become the SA20 of water polo as it seeks to rebuild the sport from the bottom up.

A month after the Eastern Cape Department of Health promised that they had paid the overdue bills that delayed the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals and that the issue ...

In this second report in our series on wards in Nelson Mandela Bay receiving a zero capital budget, Ward 39 is a large residential area that includes suburbs and the peri-urban area of Theescombe.

Farmers from the West Coast and Northern Cape speak out about a surge in prospecting and mining applications they believe are threatening their land, water, and way of life. Daily Maverick looks into ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Discover the timeless elegance of Roche Bobois, France’s iconic luxury furniture brand now thriving in South Africa.

AI is evolving from generative tools to autonomous agents, now African businesses face skills shortages as the tech giants shift focus from traditional coding bootcamps to ‘AI readiness’ – but are we ...

From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the finalists (the announcement of the winner will be today, on 12 June 2025). The ...

The African continent has the youngest population on the globe. In numerical terms, the continent is home to approximately 400 million people under the age of 35, with 70% of sub-Saharan Africa being ...