SUNDAY, 03 MAY 2026, 04:19
Artificial intelligence is showing up more often across South Africa’s digital services. Not always in obvious ways. In many cases, it is added quietly, as platforms try to keep up with higher usage and less predictable demand. One place this is becoming noticeable is online gaming. In some systems, AI roulette is used in the background to […]
If the rising cost of living has your budget at a breaking point, you aren’t alone, and you don’t have to navigate it alone either. Get advice from a debt counsellor on Daily Maverick Connect.
The Iran war of 2026 has revived long-standing warnings that Gulf monarchies may be entering a period of structural fragility, as reliance on external security guarantees is increasingly exposed as conditional and unreliable. Rather than imminent collapse, the region now faces pressure to either rapidly recalibrate into more autonomous and integrated defence arrangements or risk gradual...
Fertiliser disruption exposes a blind spot that farm-level policy has long ignored – but Africa holds the resources to fix it, write Julia Baum and Marvellous Ngundu in ISS Today.
The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital Jakarta has risen to 15 with another 88 injured, a senior minister said on Tuesday, as emergency teams completed work to rescue passengers trapped in the wreckage.
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied dismissed Energy Minister Fatma Thabet on Tuesday, amid growing controversy over renewable energy projects set to be voted on in parliament.
South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for stock manipulation and bribery, after an appeals court increased her earlier sentence.
A Ghanaian military convoy protecting 140 civilians came under fire in the northern town of Binduri on Monday, resulting in the death of three of the people being escorted and one injury, the armed forces said.
How are ordinary citizens and households expected to pay when the very government that should be leading by example is not doing so? It seems there is a different set of rules for government departments and parastatals.
Tuesday’s Wordle has South Africans puzzled. Discover why this puzzle is so tricky, which strategy can help, and get spoiler-free clues.
Carla Smith’s new comedy, CRYBABY, is about a four-year-old whose encounter with a grown-up’s media feed instantaneously transforms his body into that of an adult, his childhood shattered by the weight of obnoxious headlines, memes, advertising and conspiracy theories.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed the International Panel on Inequality as the most consequential outcome of South Africa’s G20 Presidency, warning that systemic disparity is no longer just a hardship, but a structural brake on human progress.
Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Erik van Rooyen fought hard in the alternate-shot format to secure a lucrative T17 finish at TPC Louisiana.
About 150 protestors aligned with the March and March movement left Pretoria’s Burgers Park on Tuesday morning, more than two hours late, for the Union Buildings to stage their anti-illegal immigration protest.
South African opera singer Mimi Coertse died on Monday night at the age of 93.
Mimi Coertze, South Africa’s opera legend, dies at 93 after a global career, major honours, and decades shaping young local talent.
With nearly 8 million South Africans out of work, more people are looking beyond the job market for income. OnlyFans is on that list. Here’s what the data shows…
Suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi and suspended city manager Kagiso Lerutla have been granted R30 000 bail each.
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has written to Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to ask that the National Treasury investigate possible irregularities in the procurement process for textbooks for Grade 1-3 pupils.