
Raducanu wins first match since split from coach
Emma Raducanu records her first win since out-of-sorts Australian Open performance and split from coach Francis Roig.
MONDAY, 02 FEBRUARY 2026, 22:59

Emma Raducanu records her first win since out-of-sorts Australian Open performance and split from coach Francis Roig.

Nottingham Forest sign defender Luca Netz from Borussia Monchengladbach on a four-and-a-half-year contract.
About a week ago, Daily Maverick revealed how a personal trainer offering his services at a Cape Town gym was a fugitive wanted by Romania for drug trafficking. While police have since kept quiet on that case, an alleged drug dealer has been deported to the UK and a fraud suspect to China.
In November 2025, six weeks after the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria had declared a resounding victory for conservationist Fred Daniel in his decades-long legal battle with former deputy president David Mabuza, the state attorney announced its intention to appeal against the decision. But now, among other inconsistencies, Daily Maverick’s reporting has revealed that the first...
In Part 1 of this gripping whodunnit, we’ve established that the South African government has helped murder the film industry. Now, we try to figure out what can be done to bring it back from the dead.

An election for a state Senate seat has unnerved Republicans, after the Democratic candidate delivered a surprise win.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg is documenting the lives of Domitilla and Danny Hyams, the founders of the NGO Little Eden, who might become the city’s first saints.
In 2023, I reported on individuals from Bulgaria, wanted in other countries over crime issues, who may be in Cape Town, South Africa. Now it turns out that one of them, Stanislav Stamenov, wanted by Romania for alleged drug trafficking, has indeed been in the South African city – offering personal training services at a Virgin Active gym in a posh suburb.
He insisted that nature deserves protection because it exists, not because it’s useful to us. Each being is an end in itself.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials have quarantined some migrants and halted “all movement” after two measles cases were confirmed among detainees at its facility in south Texas, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.

Crystal Palace sign striker Jorgen Strand Larsen from Wolves in a club record deal worth up to £48m.

Newsday has grown rapidly since its launch six months ago, surpassing 1 million page views and building a strong community.
PARIS, Feb 2 (Reuters) – France finally got a 2026 budget on Monday, when two no-confidence motions failed, allowing the legislation to pass and heralding a period of relative stability for Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s weak minority government.
Amid the degraded and drought-stricken landscapes, where water scarcity has led to agriculture being replaced by upmarket residential estates and guesthouses, we meet those who have not yet given up on the Southern Karoo drylands.
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Historical revelations about Lord Mandelson would have been unlikely to have risked political damage to the prime minister directly.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, said that if the New START treaty expired with no replacement, then the world should be alarmed that the biggest nuclear powers had no limits for probably the first time since the early 1970s.

Curious about what the skies hold? Discover the latest outlook for all nine provinces across South Africa this Tuesday, 3 February 2026.

Tariffs will drop from 50% to 18% on Indian goods, while India has agreed to stop buying Russian oil.