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NEW POSITION: Wallabies set to challenge Springboks’ air supremacy in Perth showdown
Wallaby coach Les Kiss has selected the 1.96-metre Joseph-Aukuso Sua’ali’i at wing to face the Springboks in Perth on…
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POLICY GAPS OP-ED: More guns won’t make South African women safer, but stronger controls will
South Africa’s GBVF crisis is being worsened by the widespread availability and misuse of firearms, with evidence…
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POET’S CORNER: In charge of our fate, we still choose to kill the Earth and ourselves
Looking at how we’re wrecking the only planet we’ve ever had, with no spare Earth waiting for us, it kind of feels like…
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Freedom from the ANC could be our real emancipation
The party hasn’t unshackled South Africans in the way that its leaders once envisioned.
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WORLD NEWS DAY OP-ED: India’s students found their voice this summer while journalists are losing theirs
India’s press freedom is increasingly being exercised by citizens, students, influencers, and comedians who challenge…
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EDUCATION: R6,600 a month to catch up: Inside SA’s costly private tutoring market
A new analysis of 750 tutoring listings shows that one-to-one matric tuition now reaches up to R750 an hour in South…
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Daily Maverick opens the DM168 e-edition to every registered reader for World News Day
Free access to South Africa’s weekly news digest begins on 25 September, five weeks before the local government…
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OpenAI to preview GPT-6 Cyber within days, Fortune reports
Sept 24 (Reuters) - OpenAI is set to preview a cybersecurity-focused AI model, GPT-6 Cyber, within days and launch a…
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Trump welcomes China’s Xi with fanfare, but no breakthroughs emerge
WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on…
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UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE: Armed guards deployed to bar suspended city manager from entering municipal offices
Armed guards blocked suspended Nelson Mandela Bay city manager Noxolo Nqwazi from Gqeberha City Hall after a…
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STUDENT FUNDING: MPs slam NSFAS over R616m middleman payouts for accommodation system
MPs questioned how an NSFAS accommodation system initially estimated at below R50m led to R616m in payouts.
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GREEN LUNG BOOST: Turning the corner — steady revival of Nelson Mandela Bay’s oldest park
With the right collaborations some say St George’s Park could become ‘the Central Park of Gqeberha’. Progress is slow,…
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS 2026: Lungisa says he’s ready for the Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral chain
Andile Lungisa says he is ready for the Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral seat and is preparing to take drastic decisions on…
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NEW BEGINNINGS : Haashim Pead tug-of-war puts club rugby’s biggest challenge into perspective
The Stormers’ signing of the ‘third-choice’ scrumhalf serves to show how South Africa’s leading franchises are stacking…
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France to send military to protect Saudi Arabia on Red Sea oil route, Macron says
PARIS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - France will send troops and defence systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port…
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At UN, Netanyahu defends Israel as delegates storm out
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mounted a forceful defense of Israel's actions in…
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TRC ROULETTE : I saw nothing, heard nothing, former justice minister Jeff Radebe tells TRC inquiry
Former justice minister Jeff Radebe tells the Khampepe Commission he knew nothing about alleged deals halting…
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HORN HEIST ARREST: Wildlife trafficking net widens — Hawks nab a fifth suspect on World Rhino Day
The staged rhino horn heist complainant who opened an allegedly false armed robbery case last year, has finally been…
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THE WRECKER-IN-CHIEF: Trump’s chaos abroad mirrors the damage he’s inflicting on Washington
Donald Trump brought vast incoherence to domestic and international policy for the US – echoing the damage he is doing…
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RUBBER-STAMPED (PART 2): Testing the teeth of CT’s planning tribunal: Penalties, objections and refusals in 1,328 rulings
For more than three years, in the Blaauwberg district of Cape Town, ratepayers have been sounding the alarm on the…
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RIGHT OF REPLY: Cape Town Deputy Mayor Eddie Andrews’ response to Daily Maverick’s Rubber-Stamped series
Questions from Daily Maverick regarding data analysis of Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) decisions and response from…
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Ledgers of femicide: Why SA men think they’re the exception
Many South African men insist they’re ‘fine’ while seven women in the country are killed daily. But personal exceptions…
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THE TIES THAT BIND US: Ramaphosa uses Heritage Day address to condemn gender-based violence after Ekurhuleni killings
Speaking at a Heritage Day event in Oudtshoorn, President Cyril Ramaphosa called gender-based violence a national…
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ANALYSIS: Economic fire — Interest rate adjustment makes for interesting braai chat
The end of the age of austerity was always premised on global stability, so an interest rate hike the day before you…
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OUR CITY NEWS: R10bn urgently needed to fix Joburg’s crumbling roads
With a R10bn budget and ringfenced financing, the city could overhaul its decaying road network and avoid harming the…
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HERITAGE DAY: Reimagining SA’s true heritage somewhere over the rainbow beyond roots, rituals, myths, fairy tales
Today South Africans should acknowledge that all fairy tales come to an end and a more realistic and factual origin…
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THE INTERVIEW: We asked Trevor Noah what makes SA comedy special — here’s what he said
As captain of Bafunny Bafunny, Trevor Noah is championing local comedy at the first-of-its-kind Festival of Comedy.…
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US ESCALATION: Pretoria puzzled by punitive US travel bans — ‘What more must we do?’
Even the US ambassador has acknowledged South Africa’s progress in meeting President Donald Trump’s demands, says…
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COP IN THE DOCK: Sibiya’s grand fall from grace — from directing dockets to sex predator accused
Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya played a critical role in the police service – he was responsible for all…
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REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Estonian echoes — SA’s digital public infrastructure looks like it was made in Estonia
While Estonia is the current model of a modern e-governance capital, it’s hard to listen to local tech leaders talk a…
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IN PICTURES: Fashion week in London, and more from around the world
Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet over the…
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WELCOME BACK: Great white shark spotted in False Bay after eight-year absence
Bold as brass, a lone great white shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town on Wednesday, September 23,…
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CRICKET FEAST: Proteas’ David Miller pumped for exciting home summer as World Cup nears
The Proteas begin their busiest home summer of cricket in nearly a decade with a 50-over series against Australia.…
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FEMINIST HISTORY: Pacifist Emily Hobhouse’s 1926 state funeral to be brought back to life in Bloemfontein
A century after the state funeral of British pacifist, feminist and humanitarian, Emily Hobhouse, in Bloemfontein, the…
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HERITAGE & RESTITUTION OP-ED: We walk to remember what apartheid erased of Newlands and Claremont
This Heritage Day, NCHERS undertakes its fifth Walk of Remembrance not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a symbolic…
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GROOT BOEREWORS TREK: Succulent & spicy — the very best boerie in the land
After traversing South Africa in search of the very best that a stukkie boerewors can be, the wagons have come in,…
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