In preparation for the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting and summit, the South African government has granted diplomatic immunity to all officials involved.

Black graduates are faced with the bitter choice of either working for free, for the bare minimum, or not working at all.

On the morning of 5 December 2022, the Investigating Directorate of the NPA received a criminal complaint from the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, with...

NAIROBI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A second day of air strikes against the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed 10 people on Wednesday, hospital officials said, while local forces accused...

Paediatrician Dr Tim De Maayer’s open letter to Health Department heads: ‘How do you manage to come to work every day, fail at your job of ensuring basic healthcare for the people you serve and still...

The ANC is planning to march in Howick on Thursday against uMngeni Municipality Mayor Chris Pappas, the DA’s candidate for KwaZulu-Natal premier. The ANC says Pappas should be removed as a result of...

The EFF leaders each received millions through a money laundering scheme – funds they used to prop up their glitzy lifestyles, their families, their businesses and their political aspirations.

South Africa could drop out from the United Nations refugee convention, while also repealing its domestic refugee, immigration and citizenship laws in efforts to ‘reshape the destiny of our country’,...

With all eyes on Ukraine, where is the world and Africa on the Tigray tragedy? By Adeoye O Akinola

Nyanga township and some routes to and from Cape Town International Airport are to be excluded from a navigation app as the fastest routes to and from the city.

On 7 September 2017, Tundu Lissu, an opposition member of Parliament in Tanzania and outspoken critic of President John Magufuli, was gunned down and suffered multiple wounds in an assassination...

The high court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma tried to abuse court processes by privately prosecuting the lead prosecutor in his case and a journalist. He has been...

There should be a place in jail for everyone who steals from their own people. But there should be a place in Hell for those who find the fortitude within them to steal from the people during a...

The confirmation that South Africa’s navy is going to exercise with its Russian and Chinese counterparts next month is as immoral as it is plain stupid and impractical. It highlights just how far SA...

Taxi drivers are patrolling Eastern Cape streets to fight looters and save jobs.

The retail giant’s founder has left a profound mark on the local industry

Zimbabweans are in agreement that #ZanuPFMustGo. But we have tried every legal avenue available to change leaders without success. We are faced with a leadership that has no respect for human rights...

Former finance minister Trevor Manuel has issued two strong warnings to the government within two days that South Africa’s lockdown regulations are both endangering constitutional democracy and...

South Africa’s top university has lost almost half its senior leadership team over the past four years. The body supposed to act as watchdog for the institution, the UCT Council, is described as...

Two years have passed since we published the first in a series of Daily Maverick exposés on the Department of Health’s R150m Digital Vibes contract. There have been no high-level arrests or prosecu...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has dropped a bombshell by announcing that the government has decided to push on and pull out of the ICC. 

South African sailor Kirsten Neuschäfer of Gqeberha has rewritten the history books by becoming the first woman to win the solo Golden Globe Race – a journey around the world reliant on no use of...

No one in South Africa has died from getting a Covid-19 vaccine, shows a new report from medicine regulator the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority.

All the attention South Africa is heaping on visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to have miffed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Xi’s state visit and the BRICS Summit began on...

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize’s long-time personal spokesperson and his former private secretary pocketed Covid-19 cash as paid consultants for a shadowy contractor appointed by the Department of...

From 1 January 2023, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans and their children will no longer be able to live, work and go to school legally in South Africa.

In some ways, the Bok skipper is the moral compass of South Africa.

It has long been rumoured that the EFF was given patronage over lucrative City of Johannesburg tenders as a quid pro quo for working with Herman Mashaba’s DA-led administration. Now, an amaBhungane...

Sometimes staying the course of divine instruction comes down to chocolate, ‘China-fruit’ and a can-do attitude. Just ask Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder and chair of Gift of the Givers.

The Independent Panel looking into the Phala Phala matter has failed to deliver a report of the necessary impeccable quality and credibility. For the President to leave office on the basis of this...

While a bipartisan Bill to extend the trade preference programme has removed specific reference to South Africa, Pretoria’s foreign policy positions remain a concern in the United States.

In terms of reader votes, Geordin Hill-Lewis won the person of the year by far, which is an indication of how much Cape Town DM168 readers appreciate the early efforts of their young mayor.

Former Eskom chief executive André De Ruyter will appear before Parliament next week – but while the committee will meet in person, De Ruyter will participate virtually.

Patriotic Alliance and Operation Dudula slam ZEP extension: ‘We want Zimbabweans gone by end of December’ By Michelle Banda

Who runs the country? The ANC secretary-general or President Cyril Ramaphosa? The confusion between party and state has defined South Africa’s politics for 30 years, creating instability and confus...

Affidavits claim he borrowed R3-million from Lottery bigwig’s wife.

South Africa suffered an insurrection attempt this week with two provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, disabled and national fuel and food supply lines disrupted. It is the first such campaign...

Chasing the cents from ordinary taxpayers while highflyers remain footloose, SARS breaks public goodwill By Marianne Merten

‘Everything happened very quickly,’ said a 21-year-old student, describing what happened while she was driving to Cape Town International Airport.

Gift of the Givers has handed over a new R60m dispensary to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, 25 months after a fire broke out in the hospital’s dispensary storage room, destroying...

‘The appeal is dismissed with costs, including those of two counsel, to be paid on the attorney and client scale,’ read the latest judgement against former president Jacob Zuma, in his latest legal...

The future envisioned and fought for by the youth of 1976 is gone. Forty years later, you and your comrades have taken away the future of young South Africans.

The fight against corruption cannot be solved through slapdash legislation which does nothing to ensure the independence of the National Prosecuting Authority and, by extension, the Investigative...

Under international Covid-19 travel restrictions, inbound tourism to Botswana has collapsed. President Mokgweetsi Masisi, however, is buying luxury lodges at government expense.

The ANC has just passed, or is about to pass, three pieces of legislation that suggest it has completely lost its grip on reality: the Employment Equity Amendment Act, the National Health Insurance...

Evidence showing how Gupta family businesses round-tripped and laundered state funds from the Estina dairy project, as well as Transnet locomotive deal kickbacks, may lie in the electronic vaults of...

The spectacle at First National Bank Stadium was a carefully choreographed and quite theatrical production. It was reminiscent of the fascist spectacle and aesthetics of Mussolini and Hitler.