Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police is now considering its next steps after what was described as an unsatisfactory briefing on the handling of the Phala Phala theft six years ago, with MPs continuing to raise concerns over how the investigation was conducted and the unanswered questions that remain.
South Africans are not only dying. They are surviving cancer, strokes, disability, mental health conditions and long-term impairment, and the financial cost of living through these events is becoming harder for households to absorb.
On Friday, the eccentric and controversial South African-born businessman Elon Musk will probably become the world’s first trillionaire when the initial public offering of his company SpaceX blasts off.
Brazil’s Congress on Wednesday moved to cut the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 – a key right-wing push ahead of October elections in which crime is a major voter concern.
Spar’s new chief executive, Reeza Isaacs, has walked into a business with battered earnings, bruised retailer relationships, governance noise and a KwaZulu-Natal distribution centre that has become something of a corporate black hole.
Daily Maverick was a guest of the International Air Transport Association at the annual general meeting in Rio de Janeiro this past weekend, and proceedings quickly turned to calls for tax breaks.
Global forecasters have been warning for months that this brewing El Niño could be on steroids – with some commentators likening it to a ‘Godzilla event’ – which, given its historical spoor, would have massive social and economic consequences in southern Africa.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates denied on Wednesday that he had “victimised anyone” as he began closed-door testimony to US lawmakers over his relationship with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
At least 16 pupils have been killed when a fire ripped through a dormitory at a girls’ school in a town in central Kenya, police and a government official say.