If the run-up to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry is anything to go by, South Africa’s law enforcement arena is about to face a reckoning that will totally reconfigure it. Lives are at risk, jobs are on the line and top cops could officially be exposed as criminals.

KwaZulu-Natal police boss Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is set to be the first witness at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. We unpack his dossier on the rot allegedly ravaging South Africa’s law enforcement arena.

On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa – interrupted at one point when someone, ironically, accidentally pressed an alarm button’ – told ANC councillors they would now be expected to report quarterly on service delivery. In Nelson Mandela Bay, where residents woke up this week to a number of municipal-made crises, Daily Maverick looks at what that first report should cover.

Besides the environmental impact of perlemoen poaching, those who fight it have raised concerns about how it is funding the criminal underground in South Africa.

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement between the U.S. and China to keep TikTok operating in the United States, with three sources familiar with the matter saying the deal was similar to one discussed earlier this year.

Sept 16 (Reuters) – Microsoft Inc said on Tuesday that it seized nearly 340 websites tied to a rapidly growing Nigerian-based service that allowed users to carry out phishing operations that stole at least 5,000 Microsoft user credentials.

With an October 2025 end-of-life deadline looming for Windows 10, South African IT managers are juggling a global hardware refresh cycle, local skills shortages, and the idea of AI in everything. This is more than the post pandemic marketing hype; this is a global hardware refresh.

Nothing in economics is ever predetermined. While the risks facing the global economy are considerable, there are also compelling reasons to be optimistic.

When a group of people know individually they have to stay together, they think over the longer term – and being civil to each other makes a lot of sense.

You’ve probably seen the G20 and B20 grab headlines as the Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg draws nearer. For the first time, one of the world’s most powerful economic forums is being steered from African soil. Here’s how it works, why it matters and what South Africa plans to do with its turn at the helm.

It is with shock that I have read the words of white Afrikaans Christians and even black Christians in South Africa celebrating Charlie Kirk as a Christian missionary who died for his faith.

For South African maize exporters, the message here is that Zimbabwe may not be a conducive market in the near term, as it has ample domestic supplies. This absence of Zimbabwe in the near term also implies that domestic maize prices may be under pressure for some time.

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Wet conditions are expected in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, while foggy, fine and warm conditions are forecast for the rest of the country, according to the South African Weather Service.

A US lawmaker has tabled legislation that seeks to block Zimbabwe from securing new funding from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank until it pays the $3.5 billion (R61 billion) it owes to white farmers whose land was confiscated more than two decades ago.

Africa’s largest wireless carrier MTN is in talks with US and European firms to build out data centres on the continent to power artificial intelligence services, said Chief Executive Officer Ralph Mupita in an interview.