39+ min ago   (92+ words) Watch " What Epstein file emails reveal about Jacob Zuma's London dinner'Daily Maverick When newly released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were published in January, journalists around the world began searching for any local connections hidden in the records. At Daily…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (709+ words) The rapid acceleration of AI is causing a "yawning inside-outside gap" between those who use it casually as a search bar and those who master it as a powerful, automating toolkit, leading to a new, non-traditional inequality. But that part…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (532+ words) The Water Crisis Committee has called on the government to declare Johannesburg's worsening water crisis a national disaster after a multisystem failure left parts of the city without water for more than seven days. The Water Crisis Committee marched to…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (452+ words) While foreign analysts find it easy to focus on those destructive, mercurial words and deeds of US President Donald Trump and a few of his senior officials, they should also pay attention to those in the "engine room" of government,…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (527+ words) Something there is that doesn't love a wall and yet, the Cape of Town is about to spend R115-million building one along the notorious stretch of the N2 highway, the so-called "hell run. A road that twists past the airport where…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (800+ words) Although contractors have been appointed to restore operations at the dysfunctional Driftsands Wastewater Treatment Works, vandals and thieves are still targeting the critical municipal facility, stripping cables and equipment unimpeded. Three weeks ago, Daily Maverick visited one of Nelson Mandela…...

6+ hour, 24+ min ago   (455+ words) Daily Maverick has approached Parliament after former acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane alleged that journalist Marianne Thamm attended a gathering at the home of controversial investigator Paul O'Sullivan, the purpose of which he implied was to plan a "smear campaign…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1553+ words) The recent conviction of former Crime Intelligence officer Paul Scheepers for fraud, money laundering and contravening surveillance and private security legislation now brings into question the motives and veracity behind his previous work. The case also edges close to other…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1260+ words) Ratepayers in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro face higher bills as council seeks a 9% electricity tariff increase, citing past averages and awaiting Eskom's bulk-tariff confirmation. Councillors are concerned that once Eskom has announced the bulk tariff, the increase is likely…...

11+ hour, 35+ min ago   (938+ words) As Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi, wife of opposition leader Bobi Wine, demonstrated in the face of a brutal raid on her home, love can be a driving force behind so many ideals, perspectives and noble causes in society. As a creation…...