THURSDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2026, 12:26
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has laid out his plans for the year, but there’s still a big question mark over whether the provincial budget will get the green light next month. Finance MEC Lebogang Maile is quite worried.
A US judge permanently barred the Justice Department from releasing a prosecutor’s report on the criminal case accusing US President Donald Trump of unlawfully retaining classified documents following his first term in office.
Bearish options bets on the rand are at the highest in almost three years as traders start to question whether the currency’s headlong rally has further to run, especially as investors brace for potential budget surprises this week.
Altron is set for another year of strong earnings growth, as its strategy of focusing on higher-margin, annuity-revenue growth opportunities pays off.
As South Africa prepares for its 2026 budget speech, the under-discussed Health Promotion Levy stands out as a proven tool to curb sugar consumption, reduce costly non-communicable diseases and ease pressure on the healthcare system. Allowing the sugary drinks tax to stagnate under industry pressure risks deepening inequality, shifting the burden of preventable illness onto poor communities...
Acknowledging that BEE is not fulfilling its transformation mandate, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition is implementing new laws and a new R100 billion fund for BEE compliance.
The scene outside the Alexandra Magistrate Court, captured by Daily Maverick’s photographer Felix Dlangamandla, underscores the urgent need for improved waste management and sanitation services in Alexandra.
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana is unlikely to formally adopt a fiscal anchor in this week’s Budget.
The former site of the Nature and Culture History Museum in Pretoria, once a key national cultural and historical institution, now stands abandoned.
Feb 23 (Reuters) – Shares of International Business Machines IBM.N recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernize a programming language run on IBM systems.
Feb 23 (Reuters) – U.S. airlines are set to add flights on Tuesday, even as they wrestle with thousands of scrubbed flights the day after a powerful Northeast winter storm forced more than 8,000 cancellations and delays.
At least 73 people are dead in Mexican cartel violence after the killing of El Mencho, raising urgent questions about security four months before the 2026 World Cup.
When a tennis match cancellation escalates into resignations, Roedean and King David schools highlight the urgent need for constructive dialogue amid cultural divides.
A combination of high temperature, low oxygen and high levels of ammonia and ‘organic pollution’ have been implicated in the massive fish kill in a river estuary north of Durban.
Geologist John Compton invites us to see the mountain not as a postcard peak, but as an ancient, ongoing process that can recalibrate how we think about time. He also wants Capetonians who live under this massive, unavoidable geology to really see it.
Four months after Johannesburg’s court-ordered verification of informal traders, some officially verified traders have been sidelined. Desperate for feedback, the fallout is affecting their schoolgoing families, with children in matric going hungry or without electricity.
Like an archaeological dig where artefacts are gently brushed and scraped to view, the Khampepe Commission into TRC prosecution delays is surgically unpicking the provenance of the travesty of delayed justice.
The Washington Post, formerly one of the great newspapers of the United States, now seems to be heading into a slow death spiral. This is not good for the paper, but it is worse for democracy and an informed citizenry.
In this episode of Power Chat, Daily Maverick’s Tiara Walters speaks with Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Willie Aucamp about the devastating floods that tore through Kruger National Park. With bridges washed away, camps submerged and key routes severed, Aucamp outlines a phased recovery plan and defends the park’s emergency response. But beyond the logistics, the...