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After another sold-out edition in 2024, Daily Maverick’s headline event, The Gathering 2025, brought to you in partnership with Ninety One, returns on Thursday, 28 August 2025, at the Cape Town ...
Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks, and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the coast of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands region on Monday, the country's geophysics agency said, adding there was no tsunami potential.
The Bok Women went down to Canada again but the quality of their performance has risen with the Rugby World Cup a month away.
The Western Cape provincial government target stipulates that 50% of organic waste should be diverted from landfills by 2022, and 100% by 2027.
UNAIDS head Winnie Byanyima joins Redi Tlhabi to unpack HIV funding, health justice, and democracy under threat. From South Africa to the UN, she reveals what it takes to lead—and why the world must ...
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The President’s inaction on both previous reports raises questions about how effective he will allow this third commission into the same topic to be.
The Welsh Rarebit we make today probably has little in common with the original dish, first called Welsh Rabbit, that was conceived in the first half of the 18th century among Wales’ peasantry. Even ...
South Africa’s hunting sector generates about R45-billion ($2.5-billion) for the economy annually, creating badly needed jobs while conserving habitat and wildlife, according to the findings of a new ...
While the immediate focus is likely to be on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to the crisis in our policing cluster, the events of the past week might mark the start of a new era in our security ...
Firoz Cachalia is a Professor of Law at Wits and director of the Mandela Institute, from which he retires later this year. A globally regarded scholar, his expertise spans constitutional law and many ...