By Suné Payne and Estelle Ellis High waves, strong winds and the spring tide combined into a nightmare for coastal communities in the Western and…
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By David Still, Mark Graham and Nicholas B Pattinson A significant portion of our untreated sewage never even gets to our sewage plants. It goes straight…
By Victoria O’Regan A Russian cargo ship, sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control since the war in Ukraine, docked…
While President Cyril Ramaphosa consorts with royalty and heads of state in the UK, South African businesses and households are — for the second time…
By Peter Fabricius Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the presence of South Africa and other African states at the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security…
By Keanan Hemmonsbey US visa backlogs could have cut the rope on Climbing South Africa youngsters’ championship ambitions. Now they face an uphill battle to…
By Jennifer Jacobs, Jenny Leonard and Laura Litvan After meeting privately with Senate Democrats, Biden said while he hoped lawmakers would advance the measure, “the honest-to-God…
By Caryn Dolley A late-evening drug bust near a crematorium in India has links that extend all the way to other countries – including South…
By J Brooks Spector The US’s steadfast support of Israel may be starting to waver. So, what happens next? At least as far as this…
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. He might have added that the future of Europe does too. At stake is an audacious gamble on…

South Africa: Ramaphosa’s ‘unrealistic’ economic master plan needs the private sector for it to work
By Ed Stoddard First published in Daily Maverick 168 The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan presented by President Cyril Ramaphosa to a joint sitting of…
By Greg Mills Despite the example of neighbouring Zimbabwe’s economic collapse over the last 25 years, Zambian President Edgar Lungu is apparently intent on…
By Suné Payne Opportunism led to the looting of a liquor store in Delft, said the chairperson of the local community policing forum. Since Tuesday,…
By Stephen Grootes• 18 June 2020 The arrest of eight people accused of looting the VBS bank has great political implications for two of SA’s main…
Giving police, the representatives of the executive arm of state, the power to make decisions on details of people’s lives is not in keeping with…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently released research showing that nearly half of the US workforce is now working from home, and this number is set…
For too long, we have bought into the myth that today’s intellectual property regime is necessary. The proven success of Global Influenza Surveillance and Response…