Daily Maverick attended South Africa’s first Sex of the Nation Address — a sex-positive, post-porn, consent-centric fundraiser for the sex worker movements Sweat and Sisonke — and examined why ...

South Africa’s premier stock exchange is betting on tech modernisation to halt its slow decline and empower the continent, but can cloud and AI really fix a structural problem?

Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X pleaded not guilty on Monday to four felony charges after police say he assaulted officers who approached the singer while he was found wandering the streets of Los ...

By preventing infections, vaccines limit the emergence and transmission of susceptible and drug-resistant strains, lower the risk of secondary infections and reduce the need for antimicrobial drug use ...

If Pieter-Louis Myburgh is allowed to discuss his recent investigative work at Daily Maverick’s The Gathering conference, it will amount to a “public shaming” of Collen Mashawana. This is one of the ...

The net result of all of this is that someone like Gigaba can now believe that he has a realistic prospect of going back into national government in some capacity.

The geneticist who discovered the SRY gene on the human Y chromosome explains why it being present doesn’t prove what people think it does.

Zane Dangor, director-general of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, is the chief architect of South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. He also ...

Much is made of the ‘Just Transition’, but how much do we really understand from this often-quoted catchphrase, and how do we ensure that a just transition to a green economy benefits the many, and ...

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Typhoon Kajiki brought torrential rains to Vietnam's north central coast on Monday, felling trees and flooding homes, despite wind speeds tapering off from earlier in the day.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Sunday called off the launch of Starship's tenth mission from Texas over an issue at its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long-sought development milestones ...