This was the central question posed in the first webinar of the “2025 Marketing Masterclass” series, hosted by Daily Maverick in partnership with eatbigfish Africa, the Association for Communication ...

There was a strong chance that all four wards being contested in the latest round of by-elections could have changed hands, but in the end only one did.

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving police and prosecutors, to look into the deadly Halloween crowd crush that killed 159, mostly ...

Beneath the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital overpass in Soweto, a cluster of homeless people quietly nurse the weight of regret. Once swept up in a haze of criminal actions, they now cling to the ...

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze ...

South Africa’s vital wetlands are degrading faster than investment in their rehabilitation. As a result, they are facing catastrophic decline. This follows a global trend of wetland decline, a key ...

At a market cap of just above two trillion dollars, Bitcoin is probably never going to upset the global asset value pecking order, but this latest surge makes it more valuable than Amazon – with Apple ...

Like calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.

The money is not nearly enough to put two to four million people per year in South Africa on the lenacapavir jab, and even if it were, the country’s health system won’t be able to roll out the ...

Across South Africa, a growing movement of student-led environmental action is reshaping schools and communities. Supported by the TUI Care Foundation and Masifunde, young ‘Eco Champions’ are tackling ...

A series of recent events, including President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reaction to claims against the now on-leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, may start to raise questions about his political authority.