Jacob Zuma has pledged that the MK party will avoid trouble and abide by the rules of the upcoming local elections, but says the party remains convinced it was robbed in 2024 general elections. On Friday, the Electoral Court dismissed the party’s attempt to challenge those elections.
Lunga Simelane
Wallaby coach Les Kiss has selected the 1.96-metre Joseph-Aukuso Sua’ali’i at wing to face the Springboks in Perth on Sunday.
Craig Ray
Former justice minister Jeff Radebe tells the Khampepe Commission he knew nothing about alleged deals halting apartheid-era prosecutions and recalls no intervention over delayed cases.
Marianne Thamm
Researchers at the University of the Free State argue spekboom should become a staple South African vegetable. The indigenous plant offers climate resilience, nutritional benefits and potential new opportunities for small-scale farmers.
Iman Allie
A new analysis of 750 tutoring listings shows that one-to-one matric tuition now reaches up to R750 an hour in South Africa. As schools increasingly direct struggling learners to outside help, families are left paying double for basic education while agencies take cuts of more than 50% from the tutors on the ground.
Takudzwa Pongweni
Zapiro
Stephen Francis and Rico
Donald Trump brought vast incoherence to domestic and international policy for the US – echoing the damage he is doing to the face of the country’s capital city. The next president will have a massive task to restore any semblance of normality.
J Brooks Spector
A last-minute medical certificate will not excuse prominent Mpumalanga businessman and taxi boss Oupa Jossiah Sindane from having to testify.
Vincent Cruywagen
The party hasn’t unshackled South Africans in the way that its leaders once envisioned.
Bhekisisa Mncube
For more than three years, in the Blaauwberg district of Cape Town, ratepayers have been sounding the alarm on the proliferation of illegal and structurally unsafe buildings. In this second part of Daily Maverick’s analysis of all Municipal Planning Tribunal rulings from 1 July 2025 to 31 July 2026, we look at what the data say about the efficacy of administrative penalties. We also look at the numbers on objections, conflicts of interest and refusals.
Kevin Bloom
South Africa’s GBVF crisis is being worsened by the widespread availability and misuse of firearms, with evidence showing guns can increase rather than reduce risks to women. Stronger firearm controls, policing and enforcement are needed to protect women from femicide and gun-related abuse.
Claire Taylor
In a bizarre twist of events, a police official attached to the Hawks was arrested and linked to an alleged violent organised crime group charged with at least two kidnappings and the murder of Gqeberha prosecutor Tracy Brown.
Riaan Marais
Bafana Bafana boss Pitso Mosimane dreams of building a similar depth within the men’s senior national soccer team to that which the Boks have built over the past few years.
Yanga Sibembe
Electricity has been restored to Johannesburg’s Children’s Memorial Institute after a 20-day blackout caused by a R159m Gauteng government debt dispute. While the reconnection brings relief, child-welfare organisations remain concerned that without a formal agreement, the site could face another cutoff.
Anna Cox
Political slogans have a long history, probably back as far as politics itself. The question for our time is whether they contribute to a real understanding among voters of the challenges of today’s world.
J Brooks Spector
Bold as brass, a lone Great White shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town earlier today (September 23), becoming the first of its species to sighted and filmed in False Bay in nearly eight years. These sharks disappeared from False Bay, largely due to predation by killer whales with an appetite for shark livers.
Tony Carnie
Many South African men insist they’re ‘fine’ while seven women in the country are killed daily. But personal exceptions cannot erase the evidence: femicide demands an honest audit of masculinity, complicity — and silence, too.
Themba Dlamini
India’s press freedom is increasingly being exercised by citizens, students, influencers, and comedians who challenge power online. But true press freedom requires independent journalism that can survive without censorship, government pressure, surveillance or financial dependence.
Ritu Kapur
Today South Africans should acknowledge that all fairy tales come to an end and a more realistic and factual origin story has begun to write itself.
Marianne Thamm
The end of the age of austerity was always premised on global stability, so an interest rate hike the day before you light your braai for Heritage Day should come as no surprise.
Lindsey Schutters
Even the US ambassador has acknowledged South Africa’s progress in meeting President Donald Trump’s demands, says President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special adviser, Alistair Ruiters, in response to a travel ban on unnamed South Africans announced by the US.
Peter Fabricius
The staged rhino horn heist complainant who opened an allegedly false armed robbery case last year, has finally been arrested and unmasked
Simon Bloch
Speaking at a Heritage Day event in Oudtshoorn, President Cyril Ramaphosa called gender-based violence a national shame, and promised action after Ekurhuleni killings and warned freedom remains deeply unequal.
Andisa Bonani
MPs questioned how an NSFAS accommodation system initially estimated at below R50m led to R616m in payouts.
Siyabonga Goni
Dutch war criminal Guus Kouwenhoven recently died. Some honoured his life at a church service in Cape Town, where he lived opulently while fighting extradition to the Netherlands.
Caryn Dolley
With a R10bn budget and ringfenced financing, the city could overhaul its decaying road network and avoid harming the country’s economic heart, says Johannesburg Roads Agency CEO Zweli Nyathi.
Yvonne Grimbeek
Armed guards blocked suspended Nelson Mandela Bay city manager Noxolo Nqwazi from Gqeberha City Hall after a disciplinary ruling said she could return to work.
Andisa Bonani
The Stormers’ signing of the ‘third-choice’ scrumhalf serves to show how South Africa’s leading franchises are stacking their squads ahead of a marathon 2026/27 club season.
Jon Cardinelli