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With almost 100,000 reported outages in nine months, we found tales of generators and grief, diesel or darkness as Joburg residents spoke to us about paying the price of a broken grid. From R40,000 ...
One of the key conversations at the G20 Finance Ministers Summit at the lush Zimbali resort in Durban this week revolves around debt — and more specifically, how Africa’s access to debt could be ...
ArcelorMittal SA has come out swinging against a recent Daily Maverick article that it says turned the national debate into a scrapyard brawl in favour of mini-mills and scrap metal traders.
TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...
Maverick collected voices from Johannesburg’s hardest-hit communities where chronic power failures aren’t just an inconvenience — they’re an existential threat to businesses, livelihoods, and public ...
This will be an entirely novel way of managing quantum information and will have revolutionary implications – we will be able to quickly solve very hard problems in fields such as chemistry, ...
A burst pipe at a busy intersection in Newton Park, Gqeberha, left a gaping hole in the road and flooded the street with millions of litres of water. Repairs were delayed after it was discovered that ...
A revolver used in a deadly cash-in-transit ambush outside a KFC in Sidwell, Gqeberha has allegedly been tied to several firearms reportedly missing from the premises of Gqeberha gun dealer Karen Webb ...
Yet analysts predict foldable smartphones will remain a niche segment, now accounting for just 1.5% of the market.
SAA is back in the fray, while Mango Airlines is still trying to get out of business rescue — but why would anyone want to enter this space now?
The Automotive Business Council says it is hopeful that a proposal for 40,000 tariff-free vehicles for export to the US will find favour, as the impact of tariffs in their current form will be ...
After four presidents (stop trying to make the Kgalema Motlanthe ‘era’ happen) and no fewer than six different plans to grow the economy, South Africa is still in bad shape… Let’s look back at the ...