More than 30 000 Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters gathered at the Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Stadium in Ulundi, northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday, to celebrate the party’s golden jubilee.

After a performance in which they were lucky to beat Italian side Zebre despite dominating proceedings, Sharks coach John Plumtree admitted that his team were “a little Jekyll and Hyde” at the moment.

The past week of news on the local market unveiled a number of companies that leave some room for improvement.

Is higher rainfall and more floods the new normal in KwaZulu-Natal? While near-record rains in parts of the province may be ascribed to seasonal weather fluctuations, science holds a more austere view – that 12 disruptive floods over the past nine years represents a trend that is intensifying as the forces of climate change gather pace.

At a recent Daily Maverick webinar experts unpacked the Health Promotion Levy, how much added sugar people should consume daily, the fiscal and health benefits of increasing the tax, and whether there should be a department of food in the South African government. 

The state’s star witness in the Johslin Smith trial, Laurentia Lombaard, claims she was confused, afraid and high on drugs in the week before a confession relating to the missing girl. Legal experts believe under these conditions, the court should consider declaring her confession inadmissible.

At least six police personnel were killed in Kenya and four were injured in an attack on a police camp by suspected Islamist militants in Garissa county in the country’s east on the border with Somalia, said police.

OTTAWA, March 23 (Reuters) – New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who “wants to break us so America can own us.”

Ukrainian and US officials met in Saudi Arabia late on Sunday to discuss a possible partial ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, part of an escalating diplomatic push by US President Donald Trump to end three years of war.

Contrary to the simplistic notion of SA’s government officials, capital is not the problem. The problem is a poor skills base, a lack of viable business ideas and, most of all, anaemic economic growth. Fix those, and the need for yet another transformation fund tax fizzles away. 

As digital assets start to colonise more territory, the US wants to stake its claim first — regardless of what Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned for his creation.