Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei yesterday said Iran is compiling a list of conditions for re…
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America" on Thursday, escalating a feud with Canada that has already spawned tariffs on tens of billions of dollars in cross-border trade.
Police fired tear gas to disperse small-scale traders protesting against an import duty hike, a Reuters witness saw on Friday, while hundreds of businesses closed in central Nairobi
Norway's King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved, extrovert father over more than three decades on the throne, died on Friday at the age of 89, the royal palace said, at a time of multiple crises for the Norwegian royal family.
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The evidence of former Hawks head Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya points to deeper fault lines within South Africa’s law enforcement agencies, where investigations and high-profile raids have become entangled in factional battles, competing interests and allegations of misconduct.
A lifestyle audit conducted by the SIU classified former Gauteng Health boss Lesiba Malotana as ‘high risk’ and reported that he should be forensically investigated. Despite this, the City of Johannesburg has appointed him to head its Public Safety Department.
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency granted a $16.7 million contract to buy 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves for officers in the field despite human rights advocates having raised alarm about the plans when they were revealed earlier this month.
SYDNEY, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Australia will provide $3.6 million in aid for communities hit by floods along the Nepal-China border and deploy extra consular staff to the area, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Friday as the number of missing Australians rose to 39.
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX’s AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company and at least six other firms earlier this year, according to data reviewed by Reuters and reports issued on Thursday by cybersecurity companies Gambit Sec…
For fans of Spielberg’s sci-fi and survival blockbusters, The End of Oak Street serves up throwback-style fun and thrills, making it the movie equivalent of a theme park ride.
Being 1-0 down in the Greatest Rivalry series was not where the Boks wanted to be, but it’s where they are. How they respond will tell us about the team’s future.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen sought to woo France's business leaders on Thursday, pledging during a first presidential debate with key rivals to put public finances back on track if she wins power next year.
Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan king, who became the world's youngest reigning monarch when he took the crown in 1995, has died aged 34, the prime minister of his kingdom announced.
We love to celebrate cultural difference, until we start ranking it. Through the lens of Contra.Joburg’s Different Is Good festival theme, South Africa’s rising xenophobia is confronted, unpacking why some forms of foreignness are embraced, while others are forced to justify their existence.
Under Taliban rule, Afghan girls are officially barred from receiving an education beyond the sixth grade. Across the country, however, clandestine classrooms have emerged to defy the ban. Our Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief, Elian Peltier, visited one of these covert schools to meet the young…
This edition of the Weekend Wrap looks at the IDT hush-money saga, 383 days after a bribery sting with no arrests, and how Matlala’s ties to a Tembisa Hospital tenderpreneur are opening new questions about the procurement scandal. Plus, Joburg residents step up where the City fails, women’s sport em…
The South African Football Association is in a tight spot as it negotiates with Pitso Mosimane to succeed Hugo Broos as Bafana Bafana boss. The federation has not moved quickly enough to find a successor for the Belgian, with the team set to begin African Cup of Nations qualification on 23 September…
Extortion-accused businessman Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that he put himself at risk when he gave the police minister at the time, Bheki Cele, critical information about taxi violence. Cele, meanwhile, knows suspected crime kingpin Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala, acc…
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China's Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that mudslides in Tibet caused by a glacial collapse have left three people dead and 558 missing, while police in Nepal reported at least 162 were killed.
The latest police crime statistics show an overall 2.3% drop in contact crimes and a sharp decline in robberies. However, persistent gang violence, recent political assassinations and organised crime continue to pose security threats nationwide.
SEOUL, Aug 24 (Reuters) - South Korea's Defence Ministry said North Korea was continuing preparations for an additional troop deployment to Russia, but had detected no signs that such a deployment was imminent, according to a South Korean lawmaker's office.
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The Japanese artist has died at age 97. Kusama's polka dotted pumpkins, "Infinity Rooms," and other repetitive and dreamlike artworks have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide.
Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told several of his foreign counterparts in recent days that “for the time being” the United …
PANAMA CITY, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The Panama Canal Authority will cap daily transits as of early September as it gears up for a longer-than-usual El Niño season expected to reduce water levels, it said on Thursday, walking back a previous pledge to not limit vessel passage.
LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - London's Metropolitan Police this week launched an expanded fleet of e-bikes to tackle criminals committing street crimes such as phone thefts in the British capital, with the expansion described by one senior officer as a "game changer".
The Comfort of Distant Stars by I.O. Echeruo is a bold coming-of-age tale blending physics, philosophy and Igbo cosmology, examining how we understand our place in the universe.
A payment for T-shirts and other marketing materials has landed the Good party in hot water. The Electoral Court ruled on Wednesday that the party pay a R90,000 fine for trying to conceal a donation made in the run-up to the 2021 local government elections.
Tomato bredie is a worthy classic of South African cuisine and is not made nearly as often as it deserves to be. Given the full C Louis Leipoldt treatment, it is a fine dish that will charm the most discerning palate. Over time, my version – based loosely on Leipoldt’s – has evolved. Here’s the late…
Pieter-Steph du Toit has bounced back from several career-threatening setbacks to become the talisman of South Africa’s golden generation and one of the all-time greats.
Meta's move to restrict teenagers' use of social media in the U.S. shows companies have tools to better protect young people online, Australian officials said on Thursday, as the country grapples with patchy enforcement of restrictions at home.
The El Niño weather phenomenon, which has brought some rain and an unexpected rise in temperatures to Peru, could put more than 1 million people at risk in regions of the country vulnerable to climate change, according to national authorities.
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrimsNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesHave you been affected by the flash floods?Rescuers are searching for nearly 1,400 people, most of them tourists, who are missing after a c…
The consistent stream of damaging testimony from the Madlanga Commission has shown a criminal justice system in crisis, and the only hope is that serious recommendations address and strengthen an important pillar of the country’s democratic foundations.
A scheme built to open the door to higher education has grown into the country’s largest social grant. Everyone agrees it can’t go on in its current form – but where to next?
Political parties are built to tell voters what they have done right. At its manifesto launch, the African National Congress did something far more unusual. It told voters where it had failed.
Forty years after its release, Paul Simon’s Graceland remains a musical landmark in the New South Africa. This article by two South African authors is an intergenerational homage to the album, and the country that made it possible.
Meta has settled – pending approval – a case about the additcive features of its social media app that was first filed by 51 US States in 2023, for $18-billion. Now it is calling on TikTok and YouTube to also comply.
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University of Cape Town SRC says it will take NSFAS to court over the accommodation cap issue, which has left it in debt and has not been increased for years. Students gathered in numbers at the scheme’s offices and at Parliament to submit their memorandum of demands involving the accommodation issu…
Daily Maverick publishes the line-up for The Gathering 2026, a one-day conference on whether South Africa’s metros can still be saved.The Auditor-General, two mayoral contenders, the head of the Special Investigating Unit and the residents already doing the City’s job will be on stage at the CTICC o…
International funders could finance targeted Simon’s Town fencing, military fence repairs and Slangkop upgrades to keep Cape Town baboons wild and reduce human-baboon conflict.
You know the cybersecurity situation in SA is getting bad when not even Hungry Lion is safe. The threat group is asking for $50k ransom, and it’s the same crowd that got The Courier Guy. It’s getting bad.
Long-tailed macaques face extinction as Charles River Laboratories profits from exploiting these intelligent primates for biomedical research, igniting a debate over the ethics of animal testing and conservation.
All Blacks coach Dave Rennie vowed his team would be better in the second Test, sending a clear warning to the Boks for the crucial Greatest Rivalry showdown.
After a disappointing opening to the Greatest Rivalry series, I expect the Springboks to regroup, trust the process and beat the All Blacks in Cape Town.
Eastern Cape residents Nkululeko Diba, Nobadula Zanele and Lilly Estelle Schutte are among 1.4 million young South Africans who have benefited – in the short term at least – from a huge youth employment project that has alleviated the daily stresses of teachers in about 23,000 schools since 2020. Bu…
The South African Football Association’s elective congress is scheduled to take place on 12 September. Danny Jordaan is the favourite to win the presidential race, despite his ongoing fraud trial, which was once again postponed on Thursday, 27 August. It will resume in two months.
The death of Professor Jason Arday raises urgent questions about othering, inclusion and the responsibilities of universities in confronting prejudice. South Africa’s own struggles with xenophobia and exclusion make this a deeply relevant reckoning with how fear can turn difference into division.
Thousands of fish have washed up dead along Gqeberha’s beaches, with sardines making up most of the deaths. Scientists are investigating whether pilchard herpesvirus, an algal bloom or sudden ocean temperature changes are to blame, while experts warn the die-off could affect marine life and the fish…
The Flying Squad is supposed to be Nelson Mandela Bay’s rapid response unit. Instead, its members have no operational vehicles and are sitting on the sidelines.
The US is risking a sovereign debt reckoning as fiscal profligacy meets Japan’s reawakening and record Big Tech borrowing, pushing yields – and political pressure – higher in the lead-up to midterms.
A sweeping grant review process by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), aimed at tackling fraud, is leaving some vulnerable South Africans with legitimate claims to social grants stranded without critical income support.
At Letaba, a wall of brown water turned an orderly camp into an evacuation zone. At Pafuri, the river tore the ground away. Four camp leaders remember the cold, the roar – and the tourists who would not leave.
Reforms under President Cyril Ramaphosa appear increasingly entrenched, with business confidence growing and Operation Vulindlela maintaining momentum. But local government and the rule of law could prove the limits of how far the reform drive can go.
Serious questions are emerging from Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala’s evidence about his relationship with suspended deputy police chief Shadrack Sibiya, which he was reluctant to discuss.
CA Sales Holdings has a vast distribution footprint, but one source of concentration risk has spooked the market: Botswana. There the destruction of the diamond mining industry has filtered through the economy, both in terms of consumer spending and the depreciation of the Botswana pula. Diversifica…
Police recently cracked down on another suspected crystal methamphetamine factory on a Limpopo farm and arrested individuals from countries including Mexico, adding to concerns about Mexican cartel activity in South Africa. The US, meanwhile, says those cartels have converged with counterparts in Ec…
CEO Jorge Mendes was all smiles on Cell C’s maiden annual results call as a standalone company listed on the JSE, but the press statement may have been a little too optimistic.
Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted one court order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections.
Aug 24 (Reuters) - England's Ian Poulter said on Monday he hoped LIV Golf remained afloat next year but was unsure about his own future with the breakaway circuit he has been with since its launch in 2022.
Irene Bourquin has spent decades arguing that better education, respectful care and informed choice should put women at the centre of pregnancy and birth.
What began in 2022 as a backyard project by retrenched worker Mannini Ntlaba has grown into a one-hectare community garden in Meriting, Lenasia South, run by about 40 volunteers and producing spinach, cabbage, tomatoes, maize, peppers – and even pigs.
Gaza parents have been warned to stop their children flying kites in the war-ravaged enclave, after Israel threatened a forceful response if the Hamas militant group revives a tactic of launching incendiary kites over the border.
At least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 was found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a study released on Tuesday.
The German government will soon announce who is responsible for an attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport earlier this month, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday.
A tornado swept through a village in the Aude region of southwestern France late on Monday, destroying homes and injuring 39 people, authorities said, describing it as a rare and traumatic event.
Johannesburg’s renewal cannot succeed without the meaningful participation of its young people. At a Metro Lives dialogue hosted by the DG Murray Trust at Constitution Hill, speakers and youth activists discussed food insecurity, public safety, exclusion, municipal budgets and the need to place chil…
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic appear linked to lower rates of some cancers in observational studies, yet healthy-user bias and short follow-up mean prevention remains unproven.
The South African Human Rights Commission has issued a strong alert about disinformation ahead of local elections and called for mechanisms to safeguard information integrity as a precondition for rights.
Two leading fynbos scientists say Lower Tokai can recover after 130 years under pine plantations. But the future of the contested site remains fiercely disputed over restoration and shaded recreation.
To most visitors driving through Kruger National Park, a culvert is barely noticeable. It is simply the concrete structure beneath the road that carries water from one side to the other.
There is an ethical failure embedded in the staggering numbers that sustain this vast, established market. We need to confront a moral question: what gave us the authority to turn living beings into commodities in the first place?
Feeling abandoned by the world, with no hint of justice, for the people in Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun, left to endure lifelong injuries and trauma, Bashar al-Assad’s ferocious attacks have never ended.
OSLO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The health of Norway's King Harald, 89, has deteriorated during the weekend while in hospital, the royal household said in a statement on Sunday.
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - US Treasury chief Scott Bessent said the United States will impose "the toughest sanctions in history" on Iran, a move he suggested would lessen the need for new major military operations.
As South Africa’s data centre boom accelerates, civil society groups are petitioning the SAHRC for strict regulation and transparency before unmonitored facilities strain local water, land, and energy grids.
Four people are missing after torrential rain lashed southern and eastern Taiwan on Monday, closing offices and schools, with authorities bracing for a typhoon to hit the island later in the week.
A coach carrying high-school students from Germany crashed in the east of the Netherlands early on Monday, injuring eight people, who were taken to hospital, Dutch police said.
The deputy mayor’s response to Daily Maverick’s Municipal Planning Tribunal exposé suggests that anyone who tries to hold the tribunal accountable for its far-reaching decisions will be denounced and discredited.
German investor Klaus-Michael Kuehne, the controlling shareholder of Swiss logistics group Kuehne + Nagel KNIN.S, has died aged 89, the company said on Monday.
South Africa’s first generic semaglutide injection arrived in August, with many more expected. More competition should push down the price of blockbuster GLP-1 drugs – but will they become cheap enough to stamp out a booming black market and reach the public-sector patients who need them?
This imagined letter places a composite speaker inside the thirty-minute silence of 9 August 1956. It draws on the events of the Women’s March and the demands articulated by the Federation of South African Women.
Flyhalf Handré Pollard returns to the Springboks starting line-up for Saturday’s second Greatest Rivalry Test against the All Blacks, while captain Siya Kolisi is bracketed.
Predictable small talk is a human technology that opens interactions. Here are practical suggestions for how brief comments or specific compliments can turn polite pleasantries into genuine connection.
Evidence before the Madlanga Commission illustrates how security companies have become shadow militia, used by criminals to access tenders and guns that they use to intimidate the opposition
LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will visit Ukraine on Monday on his first overseas trip since taking office, and will announce British support to help Kyiv improve its domestic production of long-range missiles.
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Martha Evans’s biography of anti-apartheid activist Lilian Ngoyi, one of the leaders of the 1956 Women’s March, is published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the march. This excerpt details her visit with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island in 1973.
In Nyakallong, Free State, community caregivers at We Care Daycare centre are keeping their kitchen doors open to ensure local children get fed during school holidays. By stepping in when government school-feeding programmes pause, the centre combats severe holiday hunger driven by widespread region…
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus tacitly admitted that he and his staff had been out-coached by New Zealand counterpart Dave Rennie and his assistants in the first Greatest Rivalry Test. What do the Boks have in response?
Sensationalist headlines about rotting produce misrepresent South Africa’s farm labour dynamics. Q2 data confirms sector stability, though legal frameworks for seasonal foreign labour require ongoing care.
Historic artefacts from the country’s rich air force history are at risk — the buildings at the South African Air Force Museum in Nelson Mandela Bay are steadily deteriorating.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has called for public comment by 2 September on Nelson Mandela Bay’s plan to restore the inclining block tariff and reimburse customers who were overcharged under the flat tariff.
AWS Summit Johannesburg brings together many of South Africa’s most influential techies. Standard Bank’s tech chief Jörg Fischer chose the occasion to answer questions from Daily Maverick.
A Constitutional Court victory has allowed West Coast communities the right to determine what happens to the land and the ocean on which they so much depend.
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Dump site in Conakry, which minister had just promised to move, collapsed after heavy rain in west African stateA landslide at a huge waste dump in Guinea’s capital has killed 30 people, the government said on Sunday, after heavy rains overnight prompted it to collapse, engulfing nearby tents and …
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When South Africa changes an energy policy, much of the public conversation understandably concentrates on the government, Eskom, electricity tariffs, investors and large infrastructure projects. But there is another question we should be asking.
Minister Dean Macpherson is taking his ‘turn SA into a construction site’ energy to local government and municipal level, and leveraging the power of infrastructure development to lift our cities and metros.
It has been more than a year since Daily Maverick’s explosive video ‘sting’ captured former Independent Development Trust CEO Tebogo Malaka and the organisation’s spokesperson offering this journalist a cash ‘bribe’ in exchange for dropping an investigation into Malaka’s financial dealings with an I…
The National Treasury says Nelson Mandela Bay’s proposed R23bn write-off is unlawful because the Municipal Public Accounts Committee failed to investigate the expenditure item by item, while an affidavit prepared by the acting city manager, Lonwabo Ngoqo, is legally defective.
Struggling under declining voter support, the ANC has pledged tight timelines and targeted interventions on water and electricity to turn around failing municipalities ahead of the local elections.
While legal and engineering bodies publicly log disciplined members, South Africa's environmental assessment regulator faces questions over years of silence regarding professional misconduct and sanctions.
Lieutenant Colonel Deendadayalan (Deena) Govender’s sensational testimony has placed sidelined police minister Senzo Mchunu at the centre of allegations that he was part of an effort to pressure a witness into implicating KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Santarama Miniland was once one of Joburg’s biggest tourist attractions. Now it can be booked for private events, while its operator has no valid lease agreement.
Cilliers Brink promises a bigger role for private companies in Tshwane while arguing that stronger governance is essential to addressing the city’s deep inequality and service-delivery failures.
When suburbs are forced to build ‘shadow municipalities’ to sustain security, water and power service delivery, City leadership has failed – The Gathering: Cities Edition probes whether metros can be saved.
Three recent murders in Knysna have raised fears among the community that this might signal the return of politically linked killings associated with faction fighting.
Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has travelled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working and dying for cobalt in Congo.
TUNIS, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Activists and opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied took to the streets of Tunis on Thursday, calling for his departure and the restoration of democracy in the latest protest against his governance amid growing political and economic discontent.
In the months before opposition activist and rapper Vigario Luis Balanta was beaten to death and his body dumped in a field outside the capital of Guinea-Bissau, his wife begged him to keep a low profile.
Eskom paid for diesel and recorded it as ‘received’ in its books – in some instances that process was at best a sleight of hand; at worst, a fraud. Even now, R1-billion worth of diesel has still not been delivered, though Eskom insists it is ‘available’.
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memo to help drastically increase the number of U.S. commercial space launches, including directing government agencies to look at federal land for new launch and re-entry sites.
Proving this time of year at the movies isn’t just about superheroes, sequels, explosive action and live-action Disney princesses, Olivia Wilde’s The Invite is a sharply insightful and entertaining, comedy drama for adults.
The faux-Tudor eatery and pub still flies the flag for reliable food and good times. It’s a place of cheer with no pretensions, just like restaurants of old used to be.
The discomfort of being packed into a temple without room to stretch is well worth it when the leader of Tibetian Buddhism speaks about how to practise patience and grace through life’s journey.
Damian de Allende will become the 10th Springbok to play 100 Tests when he starts at No 12 against the All Blacks at Ellis Park on Saturday – and the stats show why he’s been Rassie Erasmus’ go-to man during South Africa’s golden era.
Parents of children abducted from Nigeria's northeastern Borno state protested in Uba town on Thursday, demanding the federal government secure their release nearly 100 days after they were taken.
Polish police have detained a 23-year-old man accused of calling for the assassination of senior Polish politicians, the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime said on Friday.
Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany said a change in Jamal Musiala's treatment for a neurological dysfunction was the reason the midfielder collapsed in two consecutive matches and that there is no cause for alarm.
The build-up to the first Greatest Rivalry Test has lived up to the billing with words, but now it’s time for the teams to take the battle to the field.
Before much of Johannesburg wakes, Ernestine Mohloboli is on the streets, pulling her trolley from one collection point to another. Moving through the city’s buildings, streets and bins, she searches for bottles, plastic and other recyclable materials that provide her with an income.
