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Inside the South African drug deal that exposed an alleged Afghan trafficker and his ‘Taliban ties’A confidential US Drug Enforcement Administration source bought a methamphetamine sample in a Johannesburg parking lot in December 2024, evidence now central to a federal case agai…
Broke, divided and barely visible: the ANC limps towards 4 NovemberWith less than a month until South Africa’s 4 November local government elections, Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee and Mondli Makhanya assess the state of the ANC’s campaign. They…
AI Risks and AI Hype: Two Daily Maverick Journalists DebateIn this Daily Maverick Power Chat, senior journalist Rebecca Davis and Business Maverick managing editor Lindsey Schutters debate the risks of artificial intelligence. Davis argues…
Cape Town Planning Tribunal Agreed With Officials Almost Every TimeOver thirteen months, Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal ruled on 1,328 land-use and development cases. Not one was recorded as an explicit departure from city planners’ recom…
Swimming SA to Pay Tatjana Smith Interest, Faces Scrutiny Over Kit's DealSwimming South Africa withheld prize money owed to Tatjana Smith for over a year after her historic gold and silver medals at the 2023 World Championships, and allegedly failed to…
Prasa’s R5.6bn Siyangena scandal demands NPA actionFormer Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa boss Lucky Montana, along with his alleged corruptors and their enablers, could be facing charges for their alleged crimes. Daily Maver…
Inside Sassa’s grant review: Queues, outages, suspensionsDaily Maverick’s Tamsin Metelerkamp visited Sassa offices across five provinces to look at the agency’s intensified grant review process, launched to detect fraud. The investigatio…
Declassified document shows ANC were favourable to offering indemnity to apartheid-era crimesMinutes reveal former apartheid president FW De Klerk told his final Cabinet meeting that an agreement with Nelson Mandela and the ANC on indemnity for apartheid crimes was reached…
Inside NSFAS boss Mathebula’s R110,000-plus spendingWhile tertiary students across South Africa demand an increase in food allowances and an accommodation cap, the upper echelon of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) a…
Is Cape Town Fast-Tracking a Power-Hungry Data Hub?A golf course became a R3-billion logistics hub. Now it’s set to house two of Cape Town’s biggest data centres. Daily Maverick’s Lindsey Schutters reports on a R100 land-swap, a da…
Manifesto test: DA’s local government plan eyes the private sector, devolving policingThe DA has promised to get rid of corruption in municipalities, ring-fence revenue for electricity and water, and to bring in the private sector to boost many service areas. Let’s…
Manifesto test: The revolution promised, the record questionedThe EFF is consistent on municipalities having to focus on serving the people. Good intentions, all the right words, but what does its track record reveal? Hosted by: Lerato Mut…
SA’s sports funding crisis exposed as athletes pay the priceSouth Africa’s athletes are winning on the world stage, but they’re paying for it out of their own pockets. From R120,000 tournament fees to covering official staff costs, we look…
India’s Mandrax master to Big Five bosses – exposing the who’s who of South Africa’s illicit drug tradeIn 2025 a senior policeman made striking accusations that a drug cartel had infiltrated South Africa’s criminal justice system, politics and private security. This sparked high-lev…
Over 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg bucklingCrumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility inc…
The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card lawKabelo Kgobisa-Ngcaba was the COO of Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications until she entered Parliament as a DA MP. Then she spent more than six months asking questions that helped bu…
‘Spies in America’ – from South African freedom fighter to foreign agentIn June 2026 a retired South African Air Force brigadier general, Portia “Posh” Anyamba, was fined and sentenced in the United States to six months imprisonment after she pleaded g…
Did SAPS Crime Intelligence burgle Marianne Thamm's home?The possible targeting of journalist Marianne Thamm by state intelligence highlights a serious threat to press freedom and democratic accountability in South Africa. Here is the st…
Roads, shops, factories and homes threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out JoburgSinkholes are collapsing major arterial roads, opening inside upmarket residential estates and even beneath shops and factories as illegal miners tunnel under Johannesburg, forcing…
The invisible children: South Africa’s late birth registration backlogImagine growing up in South Africa without any legal proof that you exist. Thousands of children are trapped in a backlog of birth registration applications, leaving them unable to…
