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.

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The people Trump treats as expendable – the refugees, the ones he tells to go back – do not exist on the margins of history. They are the connective tissue of global politics, the ones who absorb the blows first – until the rest of the world finally realises it is standing in the blast radius too.

Climate refugees who abandon drying agricultural lands in frontier countries and head to South Africa to seek new livelihoods are encountering crushing hardship in this country.

BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Major European Union states including Germany and France decried U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland as blackmail on Sunday, as France proposed responding with a range of untested economic countermeasures.

Known as the Prince of the Dunes, Nasser Al-Attiyah wants to graduate to King by passing Stéphane Peterhansel’s record of eight victories in the car category. The Qatari clinched his sixth overall win at the 2026 Dakar Rally.