The U.S. and China ended high-stakes trade talks on a positive note on Sunday, with U.S. officials touting a "deal" to reduce the U.S. trade deficit, while Chinese officials said the sides had reached ...

Women have had the right to choose to end their pregnancies for 30 years in South Africa — and government facilities that offer the service do it for free. Here’s what is (still) driving so many of ...

Trade unions, medical associations and universities are raising the alarm that Gauteng budget cuts at the cost of doctors’ take-home pay will have dire consequences for public sector health. Meanwhile ...

Poet and celebrated author Antjie Krog has just published a majestic “autobiographical novel”, Die Binnerym van Bloed (Blood’s Inner Rhyme – Penguin), traversing the lifelong writing bond with her ...

While the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is preparing his Budget 3.0 for later this month, there is already speculation about what will happen afterwards. But suggestions that our coalition ...

A week after his followers openly started inviting President Cyril Ramaphosa to a “New Dawn” Crusade led by controversial pastor Timothy Omotoso — recently acquitted on a string of sexual assault and ...

Dirco has challenged the US government’s plans to resettle Afrikaners as refugees, suggesting that the US claims of discrimination against them are baseless.

As Gauteng battles a worsening housing crisis, incomplete housing units near Randfontein in the West Rand remain vandalised and unoccupied. Daily Maverick photographer Felix Dlangamandla went to the ...

A sinkhole appeared at the corner of Burger Avenue and Langerbrink Road, in Lyttelton Manor, Centurion, on Friday, 9 May 2025. Daily Maverick photographer Felix Dlangamandla was there.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile faced questions in Parliament on Thursday about some of SA’s most pressing issues — dysfunctional municipalities, the withdrawal of US funding for HIV/Aids programmes, ...

The sentencing proceedings for Racquel Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, convicted of human trafficking and kidnapping Joshlin Smith, will be held from 27 to 29 May 2025.

So what actually happened? We don’t know. However, several clues suggest a complex situation: a cyberattack possibly preceded by misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation campaigns. Dutch ...