[Daily Maverick] Why is it so darn hard to get avocados from Tanzania into the South African market, which is burdened with the high prices of imported avos for significant periods? This is the experience of one avo farmer.

[Daily Maverick] As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in our country, those who seek to cause confusion, chaos and public harm have powerful tools of mis- and disinformation to do just that.

[Daily Maverick] Photographs rendered apartheid visible, helping to make the world aware of it and to spur resistance. A new book does the same for the plight of often persecuted migrants in South Africa, where they are blamed for social and economic...

[Daily Maverick] There is no end in sight to the instability at the once-renowned nature conservation agency.

[Govt of SA] President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President David Mabuza will on Monday, 29 March 2021, lead an oversight visit to the Aspen Pharmacare sterile manufacturing facility and Coega Special Economic Zone at Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape.

[Daily Maverick] Open-water swimming at sea was once a sport practised by just a handful of diehard adventurers. Today it is a global phenomenon, but only the brave tackle South Africa's toughest swims, which include Robben Island, Cape Point and Fal...

[Daily Maverick] A woman living in Algoa Court and speaking on condition of anonymity said this incident was preceded by an earlier incident where an Americans' gangster was wounded by one of his own.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President David Mabuza will today visit the Aspen Pharmacare sterile manufacturing facility and Coega Special Economic Zone at Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape.

[Daily Maverick] South Africa lost to Sudan 2-0 on Sunday. Bafana Bafana put on yet another disappointing show, falling at the final hurdle in their attempt to qualify for a second consecutive Africa Cup of Nations tournament. As a result, Molefi Nts...

[Daily Maverick] The party's weekend NEC meeting appears to be a breakpoint: the two factions that have tenuously co-existed since Ramaphosa was elected party leader in December 2017 are now in open political warfare. The meeting appears to have desc...

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's 'dismally slow' vaccine acquisition and roll-out means the country will effectively have to rely on natural infection to reach herd immunity, with an estimated 150,000 lives lost to Covid-19 already.

[Daily Maverick] It is reasonable to conclude that Jacob Zuma now endorses the possibility of future illegal - and, almost certainly, violent - action by his supporters, who will argue that they are acting, as he says, for 'true freedom and democracy...

[Daily Maverick] It's been reported that the meeting descended into chaos as opposing factions went toe to toe to push for the motion and to oppose it.

[Daily Maverick] South Africa was on Saturday considering sending special forces to the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma to evacuate several South Africans believed to be still trapped or held hostage by the Islamist insurgents who overran t...

[Daily Maverick] South Africans are believed to have been killed on Friday when jihadist insurgents reportedly overran a hotel in the coastal town of Palma in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

[Balancing Act] London -- Given the continuing slow transition to terrestrial DTT in many countries, international satellite operators like Intelsat and SES are trying to change the broadcast landscape by offering African viewers bouquets with conten...

[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- An investigation into the practice of telling women that about 'Abortion pill reversal' (APR) - a controversial treatment first developed by a California-based family physician - has revealed that a American anti-abortioni...

[Govt of SA] As of today the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases for South Africa is 1 543 079.

[spotlight] It is a hundred years since the BCG (Bacille Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, the only registered vaccine proven to offer some protection against tuberculosis , was first used in people. A relative shortage of public funding and little interest ...

[Daily Maverick] To vaccinate the whole South African population by the end of 2021, we need to vaccinate about 142,000 people daily. This is only possible if we establish vaccination centres across the country and allow the private sector to manage ...

[Daily Maverick] This week, an investigation revealed the reasons behind the Eastern Cape's high Covid-19 fatality rate. Meanwhile, the province's hospitals are struggling through a dangerous staff shortage. Military healthcare workers have still not...

[Daily Maverick] Contributing to astronomy's 'sharpest photography', local brainpower helps take us closer to some of the most mesmerising objects in the universe.

[Daily Maverick] Former president Jacob Zuma has clearly defied a Constitutional Court order - but that doesn't mean the State Capture Commission's Constitutional Court application to send him to prison for two years is guaranteed to succeed. If he i...

[Daily Maverick] 'Therefore, in our context, including migrants in a vaccination roll-out plan is legally and scientifically sound, but it is also morally the right thing to do.'

[Daily Maverick] Having previously failed to appear four times, jailed former Crime Intelligence chief Richard Mdluli finally turned up at the Gauteng high court in Pretoria on Friday morning where he and his co-accused face 15 counts of contravening...

[Daily Maverick] Retail sales have been in the doldrums, weighed down by lockdowns, rising unemployment and a frail economy. But the latest BankservAfrica Take-home and Private Pensions report, calculated by Economists.co.za, suggests there could be ...

[Daily Maverick] Former president Jacob Zuma has hit back at the judiciary saying he will not subject himself to 'an oppressive and unjust court system'. Zuma's blistering attack on the Constitutional Court comes only hours after the State Capture Co...

[Daily Maverick] The pandemic has exacerbated an already dire situation for pregnant women in South Africa and there is an urgent need for nutrition support strategies.

[Daily Maverick] Both extremes in the broader land reform debate have focused on expropriation without compensation as the main issue. Neither of these extremes seems to be able to accept that expropriation without compensation is not the main issue ...

[Daily Maverick] Not many disagree with the urgent need for land reform, and the redress of apartheid and colonial dispossession. But for many, expropriation without compensation is just political manoeuvring.