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SA is the only squad with a winning record over Australia in ODI cricket, even though the Aussies have had more successful World Cups.

As the IEC gears up for the voter registration weekend, it is imperative to emphasise the pivotal role of registering to vote, and more critically, using the act of registering as the starting point on a journey towards the robust and sustained civic action and participation needed from all cit...

Luis Suarez both broke African hearts and enraged a continent with a blatant handball and his antics afterwards in 2010.

Elephants are important and sentient animals. This makes any discussion about their management difficult and thus the debate about elephant numbers in the Kruger National Park should be based on the best data available, not heated discussions. Elephants are important and sentient animals. This...

In June 2021, Daily Maverick ran a story that pitted 15 of the biggest brands in nature conservation against a giant citrus farming conglomerate. Given that the Limpopo provincial authorities appeared, perhaps illegally, to be on the side of the latter, the future of the Greater Kruger was at s...

Womxn have the right to an abortion in South Africa, which is protected by the Constitution. Yet, of the 3,880 health facilities in South Africa, less than 7% provide access to abortion services, and of the 505 facilities specifically designated to provide the service, only an estimated 197 are...

Unless former president Jacob Zuma’s legal team finds another loophole to continue their client’s Stalingrad strategy to delay his criminal case, the Arms Deal matter will finally be going to trial on 11 April.

When civil society and the President met last week to discuss a Basic Income Grant, once again the outcome of the meeting was not to take hard decisions but… to hold more meetings.

Two Caribbean island nations — Cuba and Haiti — are both in the news, albeit for rather different reasons. Aside from the difficult questions and choices the events in those two nations respectively pose for their inhabitants and rulers, they both may offer, even demand, very different challenges for American leadership, not least because their fates have been closely tied with America’s since their respective moments of independence from their former colonial masters. It is not as if the...