ANALYSIS: New year, fresh hope for SA — holding thumbs in 2026 should be better than in 2025
Stronger national coalition dynamics and an improving market hint at a brighter future, although political uncertainties loom on the horizon.
SATURDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2025, 15:15
Stronger national coalition dynamics and an improving market hint at a brighter future, although political uncertainties loom on the horizon.
One year on from launching the UK-SA Growth Partnership, we can point to real progress on the ground. Projects are under way, investment has been mobilised, capacity has been built and opportunities created.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has urged South Africa not to allow United States President Donald Trump to isolate the country from the rest of the continent.
The late Lusanda Dumke, who died on Tuesday, will be remembered by her sister as a person who always put her family first and lived her sport until her last breath.
This year, Daily Maverick and SA Harvest have embarked on their third annual campaign to combat hunger in the Eastern Cape, and we need your help to make it a success. In a heartfelt interview, SA Harvest CEO Ozzy Nel reflects on how this incredible journey began with just R35,000 and a dream — and how it has grown to give hope to thousands of families. Over the past two years, your...
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s board doubts if Paramount would be able to afford the buyout, for which it is competing with Netflix.
The South African Weather Service has issued warnings of severe thunderstorms across large parts of the country on Thursday.
Dozens of residents from the West Bank’s emptied Nur Shams refugee camp returned on Wednesday to retrieve belongings ahead of the Israeli military’s demolition of 25 residential buildings there.

Bafana Bafana are guaranteed millions of Rands at the 2026 FIFA World Cup irrespective of where they will finish at the tournament.

South African expat Charlize Theron at 50 is sparking conversation – not for denying age, but for redefining what ageing well really looks like.
The National Transmission Company South Africa says it remains committed to concluding a new electricity supply agreement with the Mozambican smelter, but only in a manner that safeguards its financial stability and protects electricity consumers.

Items included school supplies and baby clothing, highlighting how this lay-by kindness directly met people’s fundamental needs.
South Africa’s passenger car market is revving again, hitting an 11-year quarterly high of 111,697 sales in Q3 2025. With rate cuts, ultra-low vehicle inflation and rising confidence, buyers are swinging back to new cars as Chinese brands accelerate.
The Words of the Year signal something quite depressing.
The humanitarian catastrophe engulfing Sudan, unleashing horrific violence on children and uprooting nearly a quarter of the population, is the world’s most neglected crisis of 2025, according to a poll of aid agencies.