The City of Joburg has repaired potholes, repainted road signs and fixed street lights before the G20 summit. But the city needs a complete overhaul, not just a cosmetic change.

Joburg is glamming up its streets before the G20. Daily Maverick Joburg bureau leader Ferial Haffajee asked readers, ‘Are you like me on this: I’ll take it, even if it’s cynical politics? Or does the ...

A stark learning crisis across Africa, where only around 10% of children finish primary school with basic literacy and numeracy, has been revealed by the latest Unesco Global Education Monitoring ...

The battle against HIV in sub-Saharan Africa has always been as much about systems and science as about the virus itself. Antiretroviral therapy has turned what was once a death sentence into a ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a rare condemnation of US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and advocated for "meaningful immigration reform." ...

The giant New Glenn rocket from billionaire Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars ...

The British Broadcasting Corporation sent a personal apology to US President Donald Trump on Thursday but said there was no legal basis for him to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary his ...

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Russia on Thursday proposed its own draft of a UN resolution on Gaza in a challenge to a US effort to pass its own text at the Security Council that would endorse President Donald Trump's Gaza peace ...

The Information Regulator has ordered SARS to release former president Jacob Zuma’s tax records and has eviscerated the agency for its ‘soft approach’ to Zuma’s tax non-compliance. Seven years after ...

On Day 12 of an extensive water outage in the town of Despatch in Nelson Mandela Bay, a ward councillor finally resorted to threatening the metro with criminal charges as despairing communities ...

The inquiry began in October 2023 and deals with some of the thorniest issues facing democracies across the globe.