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Rioters attacked police with petrol bombs, rocks and fireworks in the Northern Irish town of Portadown on Thursday, a Reuters witness said, as a fourth night of anti-immigrant violence moved to a ...

A US judge on Thursday temporarily barred President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid protests over stepped-up immigration enforcement, finding that the Guard was ...

Without enough capital or enabling global policy, expecting Africa to decouple economic growth from carbon emissions is a pipe dream.

If our economy was the weather, it would be a bone-chilling fog bank rolling in from all sides with no visibility, no direction, and certainly no sunshine in sight. It is a climate where only those ...

If we act now, if we take the National Dialogue process seriously and put shoulder to the wheel, it is not too late. This country can be fixed. The values of 1994 are not dead – they are dormant, ...

As the Government of National Unity marks one year in power, Daily Maverick staffers give their take on who’s dithered and who’s delivered in Cabinet.

Organisers hope the new tournament will become the SA20 of water polo as it seeks to rebuild the sport from the bottom up.

In this second report in our series on wards in Nelson Mandela Bay receiving a zero capital budget, Ward 39 is a large residential area that includes suburbs and the peri-urban area of Theescombe.

Farmers from the West Coast and Northern Cape speak out about a surge in prospecting and mining applications they believe are threatening their land, water, and way of life. Daily Maverick looks into ...

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.