In this last instalment of our three-part investigation, Daily Maverick takes its reporting on the clandestine workings of Cape Town’s municipal planning structures to the Blaauwberg district, where 40,000 middle-income ratepayers have been protesting against the City’s inaction on dozens of illegal buildings. As we discovered, along with the allegations of corruption, the threats of...
In 2024, a R252-million cocaine consignment was allegedly retrieved at sea along the Western Cape coast. Two accused in this case were also arrested in 2025 in connection with suspected drug trafficking in Gauteng, while a third has now pleaded guilty and made harrowing allegations about a murder at sea.
Several Springbok big guns are still in cotton wool, while a potential flyhalf crisis is being mitigated with some typical ‘out the Boks’ thinking by coach Rassie Erasmus.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa will increase its financial contribution to the Ebola response effort to US$13.5 million, reaffirming the country’s commitment to supporting African nations affected by the outbreak.
President Ramaphosa, in his capacity as the African Union Champion for Pandemic Preparedness,...
NYDA shifts focus from grants to broader youth development agenda
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Executive Chairperson, Dr Sunshine Myende, says the agency has repositioned itself from being primarily a grant-making institution to becoming a leading force for youth development across South Africa.
Since taking office on 1 August 2025, the NYDA Board has focused on...
The Nations Championship trophy, the prize that the 12 strongest teams in international rugby will compete to win, has been revealed for the first time.
Amy Griffin contended that she was defamed when a former classmate accused her in a lawsuit of appropriating parts of her story of being sexually abused for “The Tell.”
They all begin college with hope, and leave without the credential they believed would shape the rest of their lives due to financial instability, family, illness
Story and photographs by Rachel Bujalski
Everyone knows the feeling of leaving something unfinished.
A half-written novel. A business idea scribbled into a notebook. A hobby abandoned after the excitement fades. In my own life as a...
[Daily Maverick] Singing struggle songs and carrying placards demanding education for their children, more than 200 parents, learners and community activists marched from the Western Cape Provincial Legislature to the Western Cape Department of Education’s offices on 15 June, calling for urgent intervention as dozens of children have still not been placed in school, more than five months into...
Scan any list of top crypto coins today and you’ll find assets defined almost entirely by their upside scenarios, price targets, breakout levels, percentage gains. What you won’t find is a second column showing what happens if the upside doesn’t arrive on schedule. Dogecoin price and Near Protocol price both illustrate this clearly this week, […]
TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government’s abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was “never about an AI jailbreak” threat. Instead, it was driven more by “personality differences” between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not justify the order and warn that...
With support from Markwayne Mullin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the kratom industry is pursuing a potentially lucrative policy. Mr. Mullin owns equity in a company that could benefit.