Recent commentary in Daily Maverick has questioned South Africa’s proposed hunting quotas for elephants, leopards and black rhinos. These are important conversa…
I have been working in the food justice space for at least six years. When the work began it was especially daunting because it is a complex landscape and not e…
Food justice Constitutional rights Government accountabilityAh, Chief Dwasaho! I do not believe in coincidences. I believe dysfunction and criminal neglect are old drinking partners. They stagger out of the same tavern d…
We need to restore and reaffirm the dignity of the people of Africa and the developing world. We need to place the eradication of poverty at the top of world pr…
As the race for Joburg’s mayoral seat sets off to the local government elections later this year, you would expect the campaigning party’s focus to be on fixing…
Global climate diplomacy continues to generate powerful statements, yet the daily realities are worsening for communities already facing escalating floods, drou…
Carl von Clausewitz identified “the fog of war” as an inescapable feature of armed conflict. He could not have anticipated that its most bewildered victim of th…
For almost three decades, South African television has been ruled by DStv and its parent company MultiChoice. It was a fantastic run. But that’s over now. In pr…
In a two-day legal challenge, Aukotowa Fisheries, The Green Connection and Natural Justice asked the Western Cape Division of the High Court in Cape Town to ove…
By Jason Lange and Bo Erickson The four-day poll, completed on Monday, showed 36% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance, down from 40% in a Reuters/Ip…
Nearly three years after they were caught on camera beating military trainees on the N1, Paul Mashatile’s VIP guards are finally giving their version of events.…
Our export economy to the US has a cold. It’s a symptom of a condition that is sometimes called Trump Derangement Syndrome. Since August 2025, the United States…
By Mathieu Rosemain and Makini Brice The name of Fabrice Aidan, a middle-ranking French diplomat who was seconded to the United Nations from 2006 to 2013 and la…
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is closing in on a dodgy streetlight tender in Nelson Mandela Bay and attempting to recover public funds of about R35-milli…
Public corruption investigations Municipal governance accountability Electricity supply crisis causesPart 2 of a four-part Daily Maverick series. So 2024 saw the highest volume of digital banking fraud recorded by the South African Banking Risk Information Cent…
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs came close to taking legal action against Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Babalwa Lo…
The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Independent Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) has arrested 12 police officers implicated in the award of a R360…
By Ariba Shahid, Rami Ayyub and Alexander Cornwell Trump told reporters at the White House the U.S. was talking to "the right people" in Iran in order to reach …
By Stine Jacobsen and Soren Jeppesen In power since 2019, Frederiksen, 48, had campaigned on a promise that her tough and tested leadership skills would help th…
An alleged slush fund linked to Brian Molefe received the bulk of its substantial cash “earnings” through deposits at ATMs located near properties that the form…