Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick is an online newspaper based in South Africa that started in 2009. It is edited by Branko Brkic and published by Styli Charalambous, operating as an independent private company. The Daily Maverick describes itself as "a distinctive mix of news, information, analysis, and opinions" coming from their newsroom in Johannesburg. Charalambous highlights that the site also serves as a stage for photojournalism, giving readers a visual perspective on events occurring in South Africa, Africa, and around the world.

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Lifman murder accused duo lose appeal bid for bail

19 hours ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Vincent Cruywagen

AGE OF ASSASSINS Lifman murder accused Johannes Jacobs and Gert Bezuidenhout have been refused bail.
Judicial Conduct Tribunal highlights contested understandings of emojis

1 day ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Marianne Thamm

Complicating matters at the hearing are completely divergent understandings of a range of emojis, from eggplants to peaches, from a dripping syringe to ‘pervy’ eyes, that shot between the Judge President and the legal secretary. Much is invested in the process and outcome of the Judicial Conduct Tribunal of Judge President of the Eastern Cape, Selby Mbenenge.
Africa confronts climate uncertainty as US abandons Paris Agreement

1 day ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kristin Engel

A decade after first being adopted, the US exit from the 2015 Paris Agreement is a blow to global climate efforts, but it does not spell the end for Africa’s climate ambitions. As the US exits the Paris Agreement (again) under the Donald Trump administration, the global climate landscape faces a seismic shift.
Scant sympathy for Afrikaner ‘refugees’ at SA’s premier farm show

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.
After the Bell: And another thing — how SA's Expropriation Act will hurt the people it claims to help

1 day ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Tim Cohen

BUSINESS REFLECTION Protesters march through the streets during the Peoples Land March on August 23, 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Biotechnology is not a luxury for the future of African agriculture. It is survival

1 day ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ivor Price

Somewhere between the stubborn red soil and the searing sun, a farmer stands watch over a crop she knows may not make it. Across Africa, more than 41 million smallholder farmers perform this daily ritual, tending fields that feed a continent — and yet, it is they who go to bed hungry. It is they who bear the weight of failed rains, exhausted soils, and indifferent politics. In their hands lies the promise of a future that science could unlock.
Power Chat – Ferial Haffajee speaks to ANC’s Chief Whip Mdumiseni Ntuli

1 day ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Ferial Haffajee

VIDEO Illustrative image: Power Chat In this episode of Power Chat, author and Daily Maverick Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee sits down with ANC Chief Whip Mdumiseni Ntuli to unpack the state of South Africa’s Government of National Unity. As questions grow about the strength and stability of the GNU, Haffajee asks whether it’s becoming a space of problems and pitfalls. Ntuli responds directly, saying the Democratic Alliance is responsible for the challenges within the coalition. Listen to...
Ramaphosa calls Afrikaans ‘refugee’ trek to US a ‘cowardly act’ at agricultural show

1 day 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.
Budget 3.0 faces an ‘event horizon’ that could suck SA into a black financial hole

1 day 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...
Wildfire highlights complex oversight of Table Mountain National Park fynbos

2 days ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Kristin Engel

WILDLAND-URBAN INFERNOES Five cars and a motorbike were burnt out at Silvermine Dam parking area during a raging fire at Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town on 27 April 2025. (Photo: Gallo Images / Brenton Geach) The Cape Peninsula, home to the world-renowned Table Mountain National Park and the unique fynbos biome, has long been shaped by fire. The April 2025 wildfires have reignited debate about fire management and the growing risks at the wildland-urban interface of the Cape. As...