South Africa

Hope rises: How one school is redefining education for kids from Cape Town's poorest communities

By Takudzwa Pongweni

Business Maverick

A VAT hike is not the answer, say experts — here are their solutions to SA’s fiscal crisis

By Lillian Roberts

South Africa

Diamonds the Richtersveld’s worst friend as infighting and illegal mining tears community apart

By Kristin Engel

Maverick Life

‘Squid Game’ Season 2 is a dystopian reflection of capitalism’s dark side

By Dirk Matten

Maverick News

Social development minister reaches out and promises to attend to a desperate community’s problems

By Suné Payne

Sci-Tech

Machines of Loving Grace — how AI might fix the world, and why the West must get scarier before that happens

By Steven Boykey Sidley

South Africa

Desperate plea to Godongwana for jobs, housing, healthcare and education as cost of living crisis bites

By Lisakanya Venna and Siyabonga Goni

Business Maverick

More than half of Gauteng people say South Africa is a failed state: survey

By Ferial Haffajee

South Africa

Save our children - Almost 30% of children under 5 are stunted

By Lori Lake

South Africa

One in seven moms in South Africa are teens — here are the numbers

By Anna-Maria van Niekerk, Linda Pretorius and Laura Grant

Op-eds

Accelerate, extend or abandon? Africa struggles to meet Sustainable Development Goals

By Adivhaho F Ramaite and Alize le Roux

Op-eds

Two Western Cape towns bridge the poverty and race divide

By Andisiwe Makwecana