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Six things you need to know about the ANC’s National General Council.

In this excerpt from his memoirs, South Africa’s high commissioner to the UK Kingsley Mamabolo describes how a white childhood friend helped change his views about whites.

If anyone is capable of turning around the National Prosecuting Agency, it might just be advocate Hermione Cronje — which is why her appointment may be too much to hope for.

The findings are the result of a study involving examining data collected over half a century from Indian Ocean humpback dolphins caught in shark nets.

The Minister of Communications has issued a firm policy direction to Icasa, effectively ordering the regulator to drop its strict equity requirements in favour of a model that welcomes multinationals like SpaceX.

Advocate Xolisile Khanyile, advocate Hermione Cronje and advocate Menzi Simelane were in the hot seat on Thursday, vying for the post of National Director of Public Prosecutions. Here are the best and worst moments.

Development 2026

On 5 December 2025, Discovery joined leaders from civil society, business, and the public sector to celebrate International Volunteer Day (IVD) at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Inside Collen Mashawana’s ‘political connections’. Can Hermione Cronje reform the NPA? And summer reads to ease you into the holidays. All in the weekend wrap.

South African youth players and their parents were left stranded in Zimbabwe at the African Youth Chess Championship after Chess South Africa failed to pay their accommodation fees on time. Many were left scrambling for rooms, with some spending the night on couches, or being shuffled between hotels, disrupting routines and preparation for the high-level tournament.

On Tuesday night at the Sandton Convention Centre, while South Africa's most powerful women gathered to celebrate business excellence, something unexpected happened. Adbot, a Cape Town based AI marketing platform walked away with the Top Women Business in ICT & E-commerce award, beating finalists such as Vodacom and Smollan.

Daily Maverick and SA Harvest have launched their third annual festive season campaign to combat hunger in the Eastern Cape. This year’s focus is on supporting three holiday programmes. These initiatives are crucial for keeping children safe and fed during the school break, especially since the regular school nutrition programme is suspended for the year.

SA hopes other G20 members will raise the issue at the first sherpas meeting in Washington on Monday.

The ANC’s chief whip and head of elections, Mdumiseni Ntuli, sat down with Daily Maverick to discuss the ANC potentially becoming a rural party, the ANC succession race and maintaining its 40% in the next elections.

Corporate social responsibility does not begin and end with writing a once-off cheque and sending it to a charity organisation. For South African businesses to be good corporate citizens, social impact needs to be a fundamental part of their organisational strategies. Employees and leaders need to go to work each day knowing they’re helping to make people’s lives and their communities better.

Greedy local financial service giants and offshore betting pirates are helping drive our vast and fast-growing online gambling crisis, while the industry is also shaping up to be a major money laundering risk.

There’s no getting around the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 feels like a rushed product this year. Between a badly designed co-op campaign and a multiplayer mode that plays it safe, this year’s entry in the series is a disappointment.

South Africa is finally waking up to the rail revolution at an industrial scale, and doing road-to-rail swaps on the Great Escarpment makes so much sense it even lured investment bankers to the Midlands.

Amid dis- and malinformation, the majority of South Africa’s beautiful people have decided to improve and build and reimagine our broken country together.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past seven days.

Nowadays archaeologists guess that ancient humans first entered the Americas as long as 24,000 years ago, perhaps via a sea ice bridge, or perhaps sailing south along the so-called ‘kelp highway’, the Pacific coastal current rich in seaweed, fish, and birds.

Love it or hate it, Cats is a song-and-dance sensation that’s been wowing audiences for 44 years. It’s back in South Africa with a sensational young cast, backed up by a creative team with decades of experience.

Weigh up potential tax penalties vs the benefits of maintaining a growth-oriented investment strategy for long-term wealth accumulation.

A security breach involving leaked National Senior Certificate exam papers and marking guidelines has been detected in Gauteng. The Department of Basic Education’s quality assurance system flagged irregularities, leading to the suspension of two staff members and a national investigation.