After a day of contradictions, coded conversations and relentless questioning, the defence kept returning to one issue at the heart of the case: what was the money allegedly for?
Nonkululeko Njilo
Once touted as the ‘turnaround specialist’, Patrick Dlamini, embattled and currently suspended Public Investment Corporation CEO, is now seeking to overturn the board decision because it removed him without proper notice.
Lindsey Schutters
A financial raid by the City of Johannesburg depletes Johannesburg Water’s funds, halting critical services and prompting demands for accountability from civil society groups.
Yvonne Grimbeek
A comparison of the two squads reveals why the Springboks are better equipped to maintain their effort across the Greatest Rivalry series – particularly at the scrum.
Jon Cardinelli
Researchers are calling for the adoption of double-duty actions that address both the longstanding burden of stunting and the rapid rise in overweight and obesity in children.
Iman Allie
The Judicial Service Commission’s decision to recommend the suspension of Judge President Selby Mbenenge for sexual harassment underscores the judiciary’s commitment to combat gender-based violence and uphold professional conduct.
Marianne Thamm
Farmers in the Cape Winelands are grappling with the aftermath of catastrophic flooding, facing billions in losses and a challenging recovery as they adapt to climate change’s increasing threats.
Lerato Mutsila
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana released July’s municipal equitable share payments despite non-compliance, citing service delivery concerns. However, he warned that December payments would be withheld if municipal financial management did not improve, maintaining pressure on local governments to meet Treasury demands.
Estelle Ellis and Anna Cox
The 2025 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for music will be performing at Spier on 31 July and 1 August as part of Brett Bailey’s The Routes of Sound, a curated circuit of otherworldly sonic performance.
Keith Bain
Through cycling lessons in Khayelitsha, 22-year-old Zanele Molo overcomes her fear of falling and learns to embrace trust and self-acceptance.
Radio Workshop
Cape Town’s authorisation of two colossal data-centre complexes has ignited the predictable chorus of public alarm. The arithmetic alone is staggering: an annual electricity demand of 174 megawatts and billions of litres of water in a country already struggling with energy instability and chronic water stress. Such figures understandably provoke anxiety, yet to anchor the debate solely in environmental strain is to misread the deeper drama.
Wellington Muzengeza and Joan Swart
New draft guidelines promise a more orderly and humane response to animals that damage livestock and crops. But they have been stripped of legal force, ignore animal well-being and are far more reactive than preventive.
Don Pinnock
Naidoo spent a year in solitary confinement rather than testify against her friend Winnie Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists. Her defiance helped bring about the collapse of the apartheid state’s Trial of 22.
Herman Lategan
Prop Ox Nché and lock Franco Mostert are the only two injury concerns as the Springboks head into the focal point of the season with four Tests against the All Blacks following next weekend’s once-off encounter against Argentina.
Craig Ray
The sheer range of tariffs and duties is breathtaking, and they’re about to take a big bite of your beloved peanut butter sarmie.
Stephen Grootes
Nearly two months after Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality promised urgent action to restore vandalised beachfront infrastructure, much of its flagship tourism precinct remains poorly lit, while critics argue the ward’s R1.945-million maintenance and upgrade budget is nowhere near enough to reverse years of neglect.
Kyran Blaauw
Safety and security enforcement in Nelson Mandela Bay has gone high-tech, with the addition of a high-speed fibre network and hundreds of CCTV cameras and drones to boost crime-fighting and crime-prevention operations.
Riaan Marais
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is believed to have gone public after his allies in Crime Intelligence were criminally charged. Those charges have now been dropped.
Vincent Cruywagen
As climate disruption, vanishing wildlife and war shrink our sense of what lies ahead, environmental futurist Nicholas King has asked a radical question: what if we stopped rehearsing catastrophe and began planning for a future we actually wanted?
Don Pinnock
Eleven years after this journalist first exposed dodgy property dealings involving Lucky Montana, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is finally moving to claw back assets that the former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) boss allegedly acquired through corruption.
Pieter-Louis Myburgh
India’s Gen Z protests have shattered the aura of invincibility surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi. South Africa’s anger has yet to find somewhere as useful to be channelled.
Natale Labia
When Baron de Montesquieu published The Spirit of the Laws in 1748, he provided the intellectual blueprint for modern constitutional democracy. Montesquieu lived in an age when tyranny came primarily from kings. Today there are a whole lot of other dangers.
Thomas Brennan
Every year, South Africans pull eight billion single-use plastic carrier bags from supermarket counters – more than 100 per person. With less than 1% of these bags recycled, the rest spill over into landfills and waterways, choke our marine life and degrade into toxic microplastics.
Hellen Kahaso Dena
A key witness details the evolving relationship between former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and a businesswoman, highlighting a mix of political advice, spiritual rituals, and corruption allegations in court.
Nonkululeko Njilo
Few sporting events push human limits quite like the Tour de France. These images take you inside the 2026 race, capturing the brutal climbs, sweeping landscapes, and quiet moments of sheer exhaustion along the way.
Daily Maverick Photo Team
From missing brakes to pushing broken vehicles, Joburg commuters face daily terror in dilapidated minibus taxis — while struggling operators blame rising costs and a lack of state support.
Bhekie C. Simelane and Mabatho Marakalla
The veteran negotiator arrives in Washington to take up his post with a daunting brief: rebuild trust, expand trade, encourage investment and find common ground on America’s five demands.
Peter Fabricius
The Gauteng Department of Education will open online admissions for 2027 Grade 1 and 8 placements on 5 August. As MEC Lebogang Maile urges early preparation, opposition critics warn that a late start window and recurring system glitches could trigger another year of placement anxiety.
Takudzwa Pongweni