Ed Stoddard

1 day ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ed Stoddard

NAMPO HARVEST DAY Refugees — or those who might be considered for such status — don’t fly to such events in their own aircraft or drive there in Ford Raptors. And capital does not set up shop to greet them.

2 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ed Stoddard

'ANTI-TRANSFORMATION'   President Cyril Ramaphosa chats with visitors at the Nampo harvest festival in Bothaville, Free State, on 13 May 2025.

2 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ed Stoddard

BUSINESS REFLECTION Staring into the abyss of a black hole will require Treasury to make significant expenditure cuts if it does not want to be sucked into the void. (Image: iStock) An event horizon looms and the laws of economic gravity will not be defied. Staring into the abyss of a black hole will require National Treasury to make significant expenditure cuts if it does not want to be sucked into the void. Black holes are mysterious cosmic objects that astronomers, physicists and...

2 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ed Stoddard

These trends have consequences. The apocalypse is not in the future – it is unfolding now, and history has a long memory. For decades, there have been warnings that Africa, the world’s poorest continent, was the most vulnerable to climate change caused mostly by the burning of fossil fuels up north. Those forecasts are now a grim reality, a point starkly underscored in the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) just released State of the Climate in Africa 2024 report. Don't want to see this?

4 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ed Stoddard

EXCLUSIVE   The translocation of the cheetahs from South Africa to Mozambique was a ‘beast of a journey’.