Daily Maverick Headlines Today

Former FBI agents sue Patel claiming they were fired for work on Trump election conspiracy case

US charges three tied to Super Micro Computer with helping smuggle billions of dollars

Trump tells Israel not to repeat strikes on Iranian energy as crisis deepens

BOOK REVIEW: Blood Will Flow — oil giant Total's callous role in a Mozambican massacre

AGEING INFRASTRUCTURE: Weeks in the dark: Nelson Mandela Bay’s power network fails its people — again

MIDDLE EAST SPILLOVER: Don’t call it a fuel crisis, but prepare to pay

UNCHECKED VIOLENCE: SAPS, SANDF scope gang hotspots as Cape Flats records 23 murders in 11 days

TRIBUTE: The man they called Fink — a life devoted to justice

ELECTION WATCH: The IEC’s multifaceted shield against the AI disinformation hurricane

J-BAY GRAPPLING COUP: Defending champs looking to cement Eastern Cape as the home of beach wrestling

COMPLY OR ELSE: Parliament puts Nelson Mandela Bay on notice over stalled oversight cooperation

FUEL CELL BOOST: Hydrogen is back on platinum industry’s radar with China leading the way

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AI reshapes SA’s financial sector, but the rulebook is still catching up

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: A billion-rand blunder — inside NSFAS’s suspicious student housing outsourcing saga

CRYING SHAME: Children go hungry while R336m for early childhood nutrition remains unspent

A court in crisis: Why the state of the ConCourt must be addressed

Iran, Hobbes and pragmatic ownership — where power can trump the law

Gauteng budgets deadlock could finish off already crumbling municipalities

South Africa’s just transition must also be a health transition

Understanding the factors behind the weaker sentiment in SA agriculture

A dinner table in Somerset West — why SA still struggles to see itself

Slow pandemic: Next global health crisis has already begun with quiet spread of antimicrobial resistance

The reputational cost of lion farming in South Africa’s wildlife economy

Global markets face rout as shocks collide with lofty valuations

Men’s crisis of identity is putting the brakes on gender equality

Africa must not only fuel the AI revolution, it must shape it

Why the current jobs debate fails to grasp the scale of SA’s unemployment crisis

Poverty in a lunchbox: A pie, a phone and the cost of a child’s dignity

A fractured nation cannot heal while its First People remain unnamed

Iran war threatens southern Africa’s healthcare systems, demands urgent strategic realignment

Africa doesn’t need charity — it needs economic justice