Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick

Residents of Graaff-Reinet oppose the town's name change to Robert Sobukwe, with attorney Derek Light citing procedural flaws and gathering numerous objections, igniting a spirited legal and public ba...

Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie moved to replace Gabrielle Goliath’s Venice Biennale artwork, Elegy, citing political concerns, but missed court deadlines. Email evidence shows attempts to r...

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has told Parliament’s ad hoc committee there have been about 10 attempts on his life in 15 years. And he has insisted that while he has worked in law-enforcing ar...

Parliament grills forensic investigator over citizenship and intelligence past

The top court first wants to hear of challenges to the public participation process in drafting the law

Disgraced former acting National Commissioner, Khomotso Phahlane, lost his Labour Appeal Court bid against his unfair dismissal in the same week that the Madlanga Commission heard of his alleged links...

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan will be a witness before Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Tuesday, 10 February. His testimony is likely to delve into allegations of corruption at Crime Intellige...

A dispute over how bonuses have been paid to Johannesburg Water employees appears to have slowed down repair work across the city. Trade union Samwu is adamant that it is neither a protest nor a go-sl...

Epstein comments show privilege, impunity and moral rot endure across generations

Club culture is notoriously hard to capture on film. Oscar-tipped director Oliver Laxe explains why he had to organise his own music festival in the Moroccan desert to find deeper meaning in dance-flo...

Gayton McKenzie, South Africa's Sports, Arts and Culture Minister, is under fire for controversial decisions and statements, prompting demands for public apologies and even his removal from office. Ci...

Nkanyiso Ngqulunga argues the Mbenenge tribunal’s failure to properly consider power dynamics and constitutional principles in a sexual harassment case against a Judge President has dangerously underm...

The rise of Solly Lecheonyo signals that the reform of the criminal justice system, arguably the most important unfinished task of the Ramaphosa Presidency, is in the deepest trouble, writes Jonny Ste...

The Public Protector has said it plans to clear the Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development of wrongdoing in tender processes involving a company linked to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s s...

An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of te...

The ousted DA leader inherited a leaking, divided party and rebuilt it through a tight regime of discipline and message control. In the end, that hardball culture helped to precipitate his departure.…

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...

Hype and hope are running high with the spread of artificial intelligence. But is South Africa paying sufficient attention to the risk of a potentially explosive demand for electricity and water by th...

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni

When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apes * US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion of the clip and he refused to apologize for it. The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Continue reading...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to decisively handle the SANDF’s defiance over Iranian warships has been compounded by Defence Minister Motshekga’s appointment of retired judges to a board of inqu...