Cape Town’s parking marshals spend hours each day absorbing the anger and abuse of strangers who resent paying to park. Over a period of months, I spoke to many marshals across the city.

There was a time when the city centre belonged to the night: punk bands, goths, sex workers, stoned revellers and the glorious smell of slap tjips at four in the morning.

‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank

Megan Choritz is a South African activist who has been involved in advocacy for Palestinian rights and other matters of public interest. Megan ...

Roy Edmund Wallisch, the flamboyant owner of Sea Point’s Balletique, has died at 69 after decades of turning his colourful shop into a local landmark. Outspoken, theatrical and often outrageous, he le...

Most mornings, Dennis Chikodze can be found inside a wooden lookout hut high above False Bay, keeping a close eye on the beach below him.…

The smell of new flowers in the street made me think of a special part of my life.

I was lying low for a while after a bout of COVID. Yes, it’s still alive and living among us, but these days it feels more like a bad, seemingly endless flu.

I wrote this children’s story some years ago, dedicated to my late cat Mabel Sonnenberg. Perhaps a tad sentimental and moralising, nevermind.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam rejects Israel's claim that villages destroyed in southern Lebanon were military sites.

Cass Abrahams spent four decades bringing Cape Malay cuisine into the spotlight, challenging the people and institutions that dismissed or erased it. Her legacy lives on in the recipes, books and gene...

The Daily Maverick journalist who spent years exposing failures in Eastern Cape hospitals, courts and municipalities, and who once got trapped in a hospital lift with a corpse rather than take an offi...

Every day begins with a bicycle ride from Masiphumelele to a lonely lookout above the sea, where one man quietly keeps thousands of strangers safe.

Gillian van Houten was born on 21 April 1954 in Cape Town and died on 25 July 2026 at Noordhoek Manor, in the same city, aged 72, following some years living with frontotemporal dementia. She is survi...

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Naidoo spent a year in solitary confinement rather than testify against her friend Winnie Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists. Her defiance helped bring about the collapse of the apartheid stat...

Naidoo spent a year in solitary confinement rather than testify against her friend Winnie Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists. Her defiance helped bring about the collapse of the apartheid stat...

Bishops’ old boys say the Pride flag is divisive, but their preferred St George’s flag also carries far-right racist associations in England, argues Pierre de Vos.

Gin, old stories, British accents and larger-than-life characters in a corner of Sea Point that no longer exists.

Rod Suskin, astrologer and sangoma, carried African healing and Western astrology into a single practice, and transformed astrology from a mere entertainment into a respected field of study.…

Trevor Tutu, the eldest child and only son of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Leah Tutu, died on 15 June, 2026, at the age of 70. His death, however, was only officially confirmed by the Desmond and Leah ...

Dieter Gerhardt, a pivotal figure in the anti-apartheid Struggle who became a high-ranking Soviet spy, has died at 90, reigniting debate about his controversial actions and motivations.…

Hoosen Kolia, a veteran journalist who rose from the printing room to lead the Sunday Times, leaves a legacy of integrity, passion, relentless work ethic and a love for journalism that inspired many t...

Some years ago, a stately woman was seen walking the N2 highway outside Cape Town, in a white wedding dress.

Years ago, in Cape Town’s city centre, there was a posh department store called Stuttafords.

The day it felt like I was an extra in a David Lynch movie.

For thirty years he stood at the corner of Main and York Roads in Green Point, selling newspapers to the passing traffic.

He was called Sentso, Adolph, Dollar, then Abdullah. Nelson Mandela called him ‘our Mozart’. Whatever the name, the music behind it never stopped reaching back towards the scarred but sacred hearts of...

A man grows tired of his own life. In a dream he takes the night train to his grandma's home, back to the house where he felt safe.

Today marks the birthday of our dear friend Gail Hart, who passed away last year at 79. I posted this on Facebook when we said goodbye to her.

Strategies and resources that writers, journalists, their allies, and their employers can use to defend against online harassment and hate.

Athlete, entrepreneur and founder of Mzoli’s Place, he ran the tracks of segregation-era Gugulethu with the same ferocious self-belief with which he built one of South Africa’s most beloved institutio...

Pampallis, an educationist, historian and architect of the South African Schools Act, devoted his life to dismantling apartheid’s grip on the classroom.…

In this first instalment of a three-part investigative series that reveals some of the lesser-known facts about Cape Town’s development space, Daily Maverick reports on the political capture of the mu...

It was just another day in Riebeek-Kasteel. Or was it?

Advice from around the world on how to keep working under threat.

With the death of restaurateur Emiliano Sandri at 91, Cape Town bids farewell to one of the pioneers who helped transform its staid dining culture into a cosmopolitan culinary scene. Through La Perla ...

Subscribers // by Ilan Pappe (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2026)

𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘐 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵.

𝘈 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘐 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘵 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.

The state is using the public works programme to avoid paying them the national minimum wage