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As captain of Bafunny Bafunny, Trevor Noah is championing local comedy at the first-of-its-kind Festival of Comedy. Daily Maverick caught up with the comedian for an exclusive…
Take a breather from your busy day and answer ten questions to see whether your well-read instincts are as sharp as you think.
Even the US ambassador has acknowledged South Africa’s progress in meeting President Donald Trump’s demands, says President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special adviser, Alistair Ruiters, in…
Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya played a critical role in the police service – he was responsible for all case dockets in South Africa. But now he’s a sexual assault…
While Estonia is the current model of a modern e-governance capital, it’s hard to listen to local tech leaders talk a big game about digital sovereignty when you know that the…
Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet over the past seven days.
Bold as brass, a lone great white shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town on Wednesday, September 23, becoming the first of its species to be sighted and filmed in False…
The Proteas begin their busiest home summer of cricket in nearly a decade with a 50-over series against Australia. Later on in the year, South Africa will also host Bangladesh and…
A century after the state funeral of British pacifist, feminist and humanitarian, Emily Hobhouse, in Bloemfontein, the Emily100 movement is planning to re-enact the event. The…
This Heritage Day, NCHERS undertakes its fifth Walk of Remembrance not as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a symbolic act of resistance against the slow violence of forgetting.
After traversing South Africa in search of the very best that a stukkie boerewors can be, the wagons have come in, delivering a load of wors from every corner of the land. And we…
Taiwan will continue to keep in close touch with the US to promote the implementation of arms sales according to plan, a defence ministry official said on Wednesday, ahead of a…