A 63-year-old woman has died after suffering cardiac arrest while participating in the aQuellé Midmar Mile on Sunday, event organisers confirmed.

The Game Rangers Association of Africa is calling on governments, funders and conservation groups to lend more support to wildlife rangers across the continent following an increasing number of attacks involving armed militia groups.

Ratepayers in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro face higher bills as council seeks a 9% electricity tariff increase, citing past averages and awaiting Eskom’s bulk-tariff confirmation. Councillors are concerned that once Eskom has announced the bulk tariff, the increase is likely to be even higher when incorporated into the metro’s proposed figure.

The recent conviction of former Crime Intelligence officer Paul Scheepers for fraud, money laundering and contravening surveillance and private security legislation now brings into question the motives and veracity behind his previous work. The case also edges close to other ‘rogue unit’ accusations.

When newly released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were published in January, journalists around the world began searching for any local connections hidden in the records. At Daily Maverick, we did the same — and came across a name we did not expect: Jacob Zuma.

After much speculation about a loss of nerve in the Union Buildings, Trade and Industry Minister Parks Tau has detonated the Transformation Fund bomb – and debris is set to scatter far and wide.

The rapid acceleration of AI is causing a ‘yawning inside-outside gap’ between those who use it casually as a search bar and those who master it as a powerful, automating toolkit, leading to a new, non-traditional inequality.

The Water Crisis Committee has called on the government to declare Johannesburg’s worsening water crisis a national disaster after a multisystem failure left parts of the city without water for more than seven days.

The South African Weather Service has warned people to brace for a wet and potentially dangerous day, with flooding warnings in place across several provinces.