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The countdown to the Springboks’ return to Gqeberha is on — and the city’s pulse is starting to race. As anticipation builds for the Bok showdown against Italy on 12 July, radio veteran Daron Mann is ...
Capitec’s CEO argues that SA’s jobless rate is as low as 10% and not 32,9% as stated by StatsSA — he’s right, and the numbers are equally as wrong regarding poverty and inequality.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, South African and Colombian civil society organisations initiated strategic litigation against their governments to gain transparency on confidential vaccine contracts ...
With the grid holding steady and major load shedding disruptions conspicuously absent, the air at Enlit Africa 2025 felt a bit thin and less urgent.
Devastating floods and winds have left a trail of destruction across Eastern Cape (EC) and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), damaging more than 200 schools and displacing scores of schoolgoers. Thirteen learners ...
Climate and gender activist Ndivile Mokoena is strengthening her community’s response to climate change, using terms they can relate to.
Health workers have long relied on Body Mass Index to gauge whether people are within a healthy weight range. Now, top researchers have made the case for a new way to understand and diagnose obesity.
In the Eastern Cape, youth unemployment is nothing short of catastrophic. Young people here are not asking for handouts, they’re asking for opportunity.
In this episode of The Readiness Report, Redi Tlhabi and veteran journalist Phillip van Niekerk, delve into the escalating tensions in the Middle East, following a significant Israeli attack on ...
New developments since the Oval Office spectacle cast new light on the potential implications for South Africa’s critical minerals, space ambitions, and ongoing trade negotiations.
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.
More than a quarter of South African children under the age of five are chronically malnourished. That’s bad for them, their families and the economy – but it isn’t expensive or difficult to fix.