2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1101+ words) The Global Commission on Drug Policy highlights how harsh enforcement harms young people and children worldwide, urging countries to replace criminal penalties with accessible health services, education, and social support. For too long, the wellbeing of children and young people…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (751+ words) Every day, a major African city depends on money moving. Commuters pay for transport to work. Parents settle school fees. Traders buy stock. A municipal contractor waits for an invoice to clear. A family checks whether money sent from abroad…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1643+ words) PUMPING HEART OF AFRICA Conservation scientist Lee White reflects on four decades spent creating Gabon’s national parks, tackling illegal logging and confronting the failures of global carbon markets. Climate change will trigger wars over water across much of Africa unless…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (293+ words) In the decades since 1994 and the end of South Africa’s cultural isolation, artists including Lisa Brice, William Kentridge and Penny Siopis have established substantial international practices, exhibiting at leading museums and biennials and attracting a growing global collector base. “Many…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (989+ words) The Cape’s wheatlands and vineyards are beautiful, beloved and in trouble. Their story begins thousands of years ago with wild yeast. If Cape Town has a global identity beyond the city limits it’s wine and wheat – the terrior of the…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1381+ words) Until ordinary citizens stop dismissing corruption as a peripheral issue, and stop voting for corrupt leaders, they won’t get a safe and stable South Africa country in their lifetimes. William Gumede is an associate professor at the School of Governance,…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (276+ words) Generative AI is shattering university testing standards, leaving institutions struggling to assess learning, and threatening to reduce formal degrees to simple certificates of attendance. For the first time in pedagogical history, these ramparts are starting to crumble. Universities today can…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1191+ words) Robyn Lichter was 11 years old in 1967 when the 56-seater Springbok Flight 406 “Rietbok”, the plane carrying her father, Joseph Blankfield, mysteriously plunged into the ocean off Kayser’s Beach, East London, killing all 25 people on board. Apart from her father, said Lichter,…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1669+ words) In South Africa, a carcass hauled into a tree immediately suggests ‘leopard’. In rural Britain, witnesses reportedly say they have seen exactly that – feeding a debate over whether big cats are living and breeding in the countryside. Somewhere in Kent,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (816+ words) Daily Maverick Digital ad budgets leak to middlemen and bots: ad fraud and non-viewable programmatic inventory steal value, costing brands in South Africa and globally billions annually. There are two very different problems hiding inside a digital media budget, and…...