Daily Maverick asked some of the major parties gunning for Cape Town’s mayoral seat how they viewed Cape Town’s housing shortage – and how they planned to address it. Here’s what they had to say.…

This is my dream, and it has been handed to me in exchange for everything I had. Nobody consulted me on the rate, writes journalist and poet Nour ElAssy.

The stink of corruption engulfs Fifa under Gianni Infantino more than at any time during the tenure of the outsize ego that is Sepp Blatter. And as Patrice Motsepe’s bromance with the Italian blooms, ...

The author of Empire of AI argues artificial intelligence can be developed without concentrating power, exploiting workers or consuming vast amounts of resources.

Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj

But Groote Schuur’s Transgender Healthcare Clinic is seeing five to ten new patients a month and new patients may wait 20 to 30 years for surgery

Artificial intelligence is transforming economies and governance structures worldwide at an unprecedented rate. From healthcare diagnosis and financia...

His deep, immersive writing had moral stakes and changed people’s lives.

People don’t need a strict workout schedule to get moving.

Nicholas Haysom has died at 73. The white South African anti-apartheid activist was tapped by prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela to help draft the country’s new constitution that enshrined equal rights for Black people, minorities and white people.

The Hasselblad is the world’s largest award for photography. It cements Muholi’s global influence.

Changing the narrative of an aid response system that is often blind to its inherent failings will be hard, but it is essential.

Solve a clue with a hidden meaning

South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Hold the Line Coalition welcome the recent decision by a Philippine court to acquit Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, along with other directors, in a case brought as pa...

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.

More than one in five countries now get at least 10% of their electricity directly from the sun.

Wales has 28 'libraries of things' dotted across the country. These facilities allow community members to borrow rather than buy.

L'université de New York allègue que son contenu peut être perçu comme antisémite, mais Joanne Liu croit que NYU craint en fait de déplaire à Donald Trump.

Cancellation letters, which end millions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over the weekend. Fears are r...

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He won multiple awards during his 50-year career, including the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and spent his life championing African cinema.

Aid officials involved in the response say people are already suffering and predict huge problems ahead due to the abrupt end of programmes.

Entry submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work ent...

Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —Davi...