A dangerous element landing with the population now is that the Constitution and the judiciary that upholds our republic’s founding document are a luxury. The anti-immigration lobby is driving this se...

A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?

Adored by the A-list and filling arenas, but without huge smash hits, the Australian singer treads his own distinctive path through pop via shoegaze, Balearic and the Smiths

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

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.…

As former president Jacob Zuma lies in a KwaZulu-Natal hospital, his brother, Khanya, has told News24 that the 84-year-old is unwell, that the family is praying for him and that MK Party infighting is stressing a man they fear they are losing to politics.

Twenty years after ‘Faces and Phases’ began as an emergency response to erasure, Zanele Muholi opens ‘Sibaningi’ at the Market Photo Workshop. They talk about carrying the dead, training the living, and what the world is still not ready to see.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has made an important ruling on racist language used in private, finding that even conversations between white people can amount to hate speech. As such, it upheld a R500,0...

A dangerous element landing with the population now is that the Constitution and the judiciary that upholds our republic’s founding document are a luxury. The anti-immigration lobby is driving this se...

Questions over her Eskom ruling put SIU’s mandate and judicial oversight under scrutiny

The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger

Swedish Academy says Carson selected for her ‘bold and inventive oeuvre’

March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma published a News24 journalist’s cellphone number to her Facebook followers, sparking a barrage of death threats. News24 has served her with a letter of demand. She has refused to delete the post or apologise.

People tell of lives changed beyond recognition after the 7 October attacks by Hamas three years ago and the subsequent Israeli offensive

Bishops Diocesan College’s Old Diocesan Committee has sent a cease and desist notice to actor and former Old Diocesan Union vice-chairperson Anton Taylor, threatening urgent legal action over his social media videos demanding that the committee resign over a pride flag controversy.

The DA’s mayoral candidate for Tshwane, Cilliers Brink, has defended a raid on a hijacked property as a mere search, but lawyers doubt that what transpired at the weekend was lawful.

A Belgian far-right politician referred to by a former colleague as “an unadulterated Hitler fanatic” had an exhibition about South Africa blocked by Brussels in September, it has emerged.…

An independent review is investigating whether the Old Diocesan Committee exceeded its role at Bishops Diocesan College, amid concerns over school governance, staffing, the Pride flag and the school’s...

Judicial Service Commission opts not to appoint judges Graham Moshoana and Betty Mahalelo

Roman Manfredi took to the Neopolitan streets to photograph intimate portraits of locals who live outside binary gender expectations

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.

Last month, on 3 September, March and March supporters converged on an encampment of displaced immigrants at Che Guevara Road in Durban in a ‘clean-up’ operation. But, in their own words, the people d...

Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their rifles

The National Mall spectacle did more than commemorate victims of farm attacks: it converted grief into a racialised political claim that miscasts the wider crime crisis as a frontier war and risks reo...

“This exhib­i­tion is called RM x SFMOMA but, you know, it’s about my per­sonal things, so I prefer to be called Nam­joon. Or you could call me Joon, like, if it’s too long.” So says Kim Nam­joon, aka...

Pierre de Vos, a self-described “recovering Afrikaner” traces his journey from a Verwoerd-worshipping household to principled rejection of the racial and tribal politics. He warns that the silence of the moderate Afrikaner elite is helping to legitimate a project that seeks to undo South Africa’s constitutional democracy.

Police did business with alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield’s associated fuel company at the height of an organised crime investigation into his suspected criminal enterprise.…

Sunday’s River Valley is one example of how South Africans are stepping in across the country to fill the gaps caused by municipal decay.…

Transcripts of the JSC meetings that led to Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge facing impeachment for his sexual pursuit of secretary Andiswa Mengo reveal how advocates Sesi Baloyi and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi played a pivotal role in pushing for him to be found guilty of gross misconduct.

Fraudulence on a criminal scale

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time

Judge Portia Phahlane allegedly failed to disclose that a third party paid R2 million towards the lavish Tuscan-style R6.5 million home she bought in 2022, a payment the State contends was a bribe.

Judges Gerald Bloem, Mmathebe Phatshoane and Esther Steyn were recommended for appointment for the three vacancies in the Supreme Court of Appeal after the first day of hearings by the Judicial Servic...

The latest in our series of writers’ favorite comfort films is a tribute to the lovably quirky 80s musical

I am spending some time in South Africa as a guest of the Bureau of Economic Research (BER) and the Institute of Advanced Studies, both part of Stellenbosch University.

The brutal, racist reality is that the value of this Israeli confessional documentary lies in the work it does behind enemy lines, so to speak, that no Palestinian film could do

Our ‘genius’ president is revealing his ignorance of economics, fueling concerns about the threat he poses to the world

Most new applicants have been barred from accessing the system since at least 2020

The film shatters ‘respectable’ Israelis’ illusion of moral superiority: The most prestigious, highly educated soldiers are the primary culprits of genocide.

Max du Preez argues that South Africa has fallen into a recession of shame, where corruption and dishonour in public life have been normalised to the point that disgrace no longer restrains the powerful.

The former chief of staff to Sport Minister and Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie is the new CEO of Cricket South Africa’s incumbent ticketing vendor. This follows the sale of Ticketpro t...

New sanctions against South Africa and the placing of white crosses on the National Mall in Washington, DC last week speak to a deep connection between white nationalist politics of both South Africa ...

Cape Town has unveiled plans to replace its unfinished Foreshore freeways with a new bridge and tunnel, while unlocking 15 hectares for housing, public space and a new neighbourhood. But the cost, fun...

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

As this year’s con­fer­ence kicks off, the Con­ser­vat­ive leader is more pop­u­lar than her own party. Over ‘dino­saur’ ribs in Lon­don, she talks to George Parker about wad­ing into cul­ture wars, w...

Besides interviewing 44 candidates for 22 vacancies at 11 superior courts across the country, the Judicial Service Commission must pass reforms to its interviews and ethics processes, and also decide ...

Johannesburg police are accused of using xenophobic profiling against both foreign nationals and naturalised South African citizens.…

With so much of Johannesburg falling apart, it is astounding how few of the parties contesting for votes there focus on local issues in their election posters. The posters reveal how many of them cann...