Former president Thabo Mbeki’s missive about the future of the Afrikaner in South Africa puts Afrikaners front and centre when analysing the decline of the ANC and the country, writes Pieter du Toit.

What Pep Guardiola knew at Manchester City relates to the true nature of the club and more basic things like spectacle and human nature

Weeks after Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza reinstated Malusi Gigaba as co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence, the ANC quietly removed him this week.

The question of why the National Student Financial Aid Scheme paid four intermediaries a whopping R615 million to manage student accommodation – when arguably just one could have done the job – was a burning issue in Parliament.

Lex Libertas’ 3,000 white crosses in Washington event failed to attract much US media coverage, but the political connections behind it say something revealing about the growing network between global...

South Africa and Zimbabwe are discussing a $500 million (R8.2 billion) dam project to supply water to an industrial hub near their border, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

A shooting in KwaZulu-Natal has claimed the lives of 11 people, and three others have been injured. Police are searching for three shooters.

A charge sheet sets out the grim case against top cop Shadrack Sibiya, alleging that he plied a group of friends with alcohol at what he called a ‘classy place’ – a strip club – then raped one of them...

Amid genuinely touching passages about his sister, the earl can’t help but put himself and his grievances centre stage

There is a lot wrong with the ANC, so the stupidity of its secretary-general should ordinarily be the least of our concerns. However, he shows us why the party has become the punchline in a bad joke.…

While we have learned much about the money swirling around the political system in the past five years, there are still massive blind spots.

Murderer George ‘Geweld’ Thomas has been in jail for more than a decade. But last week, on 17 September, the prisons boss described him as South Africa’s “number one gang leader” whose movements could...

Afrikaners taking their case to a foreign government smacks of interference, writes Peter Bruce

The taxman wants an eye-watering R1.9 billion from alleged Tembisa Hospital looter Hangwani Morgan Maumela. Maumela, along with his mother, Mboneni Maumela, and his sister, Rumani Maumela, acting in t...

From Kabul and Dubai to Nairobi and New York, US authorities used secret sources and cross-border tactics to capture accused traffickers, exposing deep links between drug rings and South Africa.…

The disputes between the US and South Africa have now taken on a whole new texture as the US will bar certain individuals – presumably mostly government officials – from entry into the US. This action...

The announcement by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about visa restrictions on certain South Africans is the result of a relentless crusade by local MAGA loyalists, writes Pieter du Toit.

Stefan Govindraju’s plea agreement detailed how he allegedly used jewellery and a fleet of luxury vehicles – including a McLaren, a Mercedes-Benz S63 and a G63, and a Ferrari – to buy off senior hospi...

Trump urges lower rates after central bank agrees increase by quarter-percentage point to range of 3.75% to 4%

The second-to-last court session of the year in the R320 million Durban Solid Waste tender fraud trial of former mayor Zandile Gumede and her co-accused has collapsed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will be in a position this weekend to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine. In South Africa, the Ukrainian ambassador and several diplomats ar...

Coalition talks loom as DA and ANC brace for uncertain outcomes, writes Peter Bruce

The threats are many: collapsing property values, the fouling of prime agricultural land, the siphoning and polluting of scarce water supplies, and costs for legitimate mining operations and losses fo...

South Africa’s coffee market is getting crowded, prices are rising, and Shoprite’s acquisition of Vida e Caffè could trigger an even more intense battle for our daily caffeine fix. For coffee lovers, ...

The Flying Squad in Gqeberha, once the backbone of rapid-response policing in the city, has been reduced to a grounded force.

The former chief executive of a state entity that spends upwards of R4-billion a year, and her then spokesperson, put R60,000 in a Dior shopping bag on a table in front of a Daily Maverick journalist....

The former architect and principal agent responsible for the security upgrades at former president Jacob Zuma’s private residence in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, has been ordered to pay the National Treasu...