A fire has broken out at Mitchell’s Pass near Ceres amid efforts to put out another blaze at La Motte in Franschhoek.

Three South African sides will feature in the knockout stages of European Cup competition this season.

January’s reading list moves between reflection and escape, pairing books that sharpen focus and rethink our relationship with money with fiction that unsettles, absorbs and lingers. Together, they offer a considered way back into attention, feeling and pleasure at the start of the year.

This was an experiment that produced very happy results – the concept of French toast is reimagined for an air fryer oven. And it’s loaded…

NEW DELHI, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has invited India to join his “Board of Peace” initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, according to a White House statement on Sunday, shared in a post on X by Washington’s ambassador to New Delhi, Sergio Gor.

ADAMUZ, Spain, Jan 19 (Reuters) – A high-speed train derailed and smashed into another oncoming train in southern Spain on Sunday, pushing the second train off the tracks and down an embankment in a collision that police sources confirmed to Reuters had killed at least 21 people.

Military experts urge President Ramaphosa to dismiss Defence Minister Motshekga and SANDF leaders for failing to enforce his order to withdraw Iranian warships during joint exercises.

From possessing ‘secret’ emails allegedly sent from the private address of retired judge Sisi Khampepe, to hush-hush talks with apartheid-era generals, Jacob Zuma’s shadow looms large over the Khampepe Inquiry.

If you think Johannesburg’s streets are looking a lot darker these days, your instincts are correct. A Daily Maverick community investigation has uncovered that the repair time for streetlights has doubled in the space of a year. Widespread crime, vandalism, and underspending are leaving frustrated residents in the dark for weeks, and in some cases, years.

Moxii Africa (formerly Media Monitoring Africa) has issued letters of demand to the South African government and to X Corp to ensure Grok AI acts immediately to disable the ‘undressing’ feature of Grok, and any other feature that allows users to create and share non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.

Amid ongoing legal battles over the National Health Insurance, hopes for a truce dwindle as political motives complicate negotiations on universal healthcare.

Cable theft and vandalism have left Gqeberha’s wastewater system in crisis, sending raw sewage into streets and homes — affecting both more affluent suburbs and under-resourced communities.

Johannesburg residents often complain that City call centres are not effective. So when City Power told residents they had to communicate with the utility directly, not through councillors, there was outrage.