African states need to start working more closely with their neighbours, both in terms of purchasing disaster supplies as well as in responding to emergencies. Many African countries are very small, ...

Governments globally are grappling with tax systems to protect local industries from supposedly affordable fast fashion. The volumes of clothing and other goods being moved around the world have ...

Questions with Siyabonga Goni Get a sneak peek into the life of a Daily Maverick intern  journalist as he answers 20 questions for Maverick Insiders ...

Treat a cataplana like a wok for a seafood treat in the Portuguese style with a hint of Asia in it too. Imagine a sort-of wok that’s thought to be the forerunner of the pressure cooker. Without its ...

Deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal have pushed emergency services to the limit and much-needed reinforcements will arrive on Wednesday from Spain and Morocco, the civil protection ...

A large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered an earthquake-sized blast at a major arsenal in the Tver region on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a nearby town, war bloggers and some ...

Three brothers, built short and square like gnomes, once lived and dug for diamonds in the Wolmaransstad area of North West. One day, so the story goes, they found a “donderse groot goen” (an ...

Ireland could need to complete around 52,000 new homes each year until 2050 to house the country’s growing population, according to the central bank, a figure that far exceeds current government ...

The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) dismissed its CEO Zolani Matthews in August for the third time after a protracted legal battle. The rail utility insists the process was ‘just and fair’.

Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security ...

If there was any legitimate argument that the Reserve Bank should be nationalised, it is frankly negated by the stellar performance of the monetary authorities over the past four years. We sit today ...

Ocean Basket (OB) says the Labour Department is wrong about allegations that it owed staff hundreds of thousands of rands, or employed illegal foreigners. OB’s compliance with immigration laws was ...