Women have had the right to choose to end their pregnancies for 30 years in South Africa — and government facilities that offer the service do it for free. Here’s what is (still) driving so many of ...

Poet and celebrated author Antjie Krog has just published a majestic “autobiographical novel”, Die Binnerym van Bloed (Blood’s Inner Rhyme – Penguin), traversing the lifelong writing bond with her ...

Trade unions, medical associations and universities are raising the alarm that Gauteng budget cuts at the cost of doctors’ take-home pay will have dire consequences for public sector health. Meanwhile ...

While the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is preparing his Budget 3.0 for later this month, there is already speculation about what will happen afterwards. But suggestions that our coalition ...

A week after his followers openly started inviting President Cyril Ramaphosa to a “New Dawn” Crusade led by controversial pastor Timothy Omotoso — recently acquitted on a string of sexual assault and ...

As Gauteng battles a worsening housing crisis, incomplete housing units near Randfontein in the West Rand remain vandalised and unoccupied. Daily Maverick photographer Felix Dlangamandla went to the ...

Dirco has challenged the US government’s plans to resettle Afrikaners as refugees, suggesting that the US claims of discrimination against them are baseless.

A sinkhole appeared at the corner of Burger Avenue and Langerbrink Road, in Lyttelton Manor, Centurion, on Friday, 9 May 2025. Daily Maverick photographer Felix Dlangamandla was there.

Bitcoin soared to the highest since January and US crude ticked up after a more than 3% surge on Thursday, when President Donald Trump announced the agreement with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ...

The sentencing proceedings for Racquel Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, convicted of human trafficking and kidnapping Joshlin Smith, will be held from 27 to 29 May 2025.

In what appeared to be a soft launch of its 2026 local government election campaign, ActionSA this week announced its plan to introduce an alternative to the B-BBEE policy.

U.S. President Donald Trump met Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer on Thursday and discussed nuclear talks with Iran and Israel's war in Gaza, Axios reported, citing two sources briefed on ...