The poor in South Africa and the wider region will bear the brunt of this unfolding catastrophe, while the inflationary headwinds will slow economic growth, raise borrowing costs and impede the government’s already limited capacity to help those most in need.
We invited readers to send questions on the US-Israel attack on Iran, Iran’s retaliatory strikes and the war’s implications for SA. In this second instalment on the issue, Daily Maverick writers answer them below.
A group of grandmothers in central Kenya have formed a soccer team to keep fit and to give hope to a generation of teenagers — whom they sometimes outrun on the field.
The Federal Reserve is expected to hold the benchmark interest rate steady today amid economic uncertainty. And, Sen. Mullin faces a confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
A state-imposed internet blackout has obscured the reality of life in Iran as the war rages on. Those fleeing through neighboring countries share a rare glimpse of what life is like in Iran.
[Namibian] The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has instructed private schools to operate strictly within the grades and programmes approved in their certificates of registration.
[Namibian] Fifteen pupils from Rundu Secondary School in the Kavango East region are currently at the Rundu State Hospital for suspected food poisoning.
The arrest of Dylan Lopez Contreras last year was the first reported case of a public school student in the city being taken by federal immigration agents since President Trump returned to office.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — A student of the University of Liberia(UL) has emerged winner of the ECOWAS @ 50 Essay Competition organized for undergraduate students in Liberia.
Longtime Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions shorting Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. At FOSDEM 2026, cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg shut down his bug bounty program after AI-generated slop overwhelmed his team. A new article on HackerNoon argues that most commercial SaaS could...
Dave Knott shares a report from the New York Times: On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest society of computing professionals, said Drs. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard had won this year’s Turing Award for their work on quantum cryptography and related technologies. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of...
A new study found that women who went through so-called premature menopause had 40 percent more fatal and nonfatal heart attacks over the course of their lives.
Lawyers for both sides in the federal lawsuit, brought by six medical organizations, are trying to understand the ramifications of the judge’s decision.