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.

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.