As she prepares for another bail hearing, Karen Webb, the firearms dealer at the centre of a growing arms scandal, now faces a second murder charge — this time linked to the 2024 killing of a man in ...

The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension to South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.

After four presidents (stop trying to make the Kgalema Motlanthe ‘era’ happen) and no fewer than six different plans to grow the economy, South Africa is still in bad shape… Let’s look back at the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine on Monday, and threatened sanctions on buyers of Russian exports unless Russia agrees a peace deal, a major policy shift brought on by ...

Sudanese activists said on Monday that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed almost 300 people in attacks in North Kordofan state that began on Saturday.

After another sold-out edition in 2024, Daily Maverick’s headline event, The Gathering 2025, brought to you in partnership with Ninety One, returns on Thursday, 28 August 2025, at the Cape Town ...

The President’s inaction on both previous reports raises questions about how effective he will allow this third commission into the same topic to be.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands region on Monday, the country's geophysics agency said, adding there was no tsunami potential.

Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks, and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts.

UNAIDS head Winnie Byanyima joins Redi Tlhabi to unpack HIV funding, health justice, and democracy under threat. From South Africa to the UN, she reveals what it takes to lead—and why the world must ...

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The Bok Women went down to Canada again but the quality of their performance has risen with the Rugby World Cup a month away.