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THE GATHERING 2026: A top urbanist’s guide to building modern South African cities

The Gathering 2026: Power to the people — Communities step up as municipalities fail

THE GATHERING 2026: Fixing failing cities is in business’s own interest, leaders say

THE GATHERING 2026: Voters warned of ‘engagement farming’ ahead of local elections

THE GATHERING 2026: ‘We are South African’: Imtiaz Sooliman urges citizens to take ownership of their country

THE GATHERING 2026: Transforming The Wilds from a no-gone zone to a top rated park

THE GATHERING 2026: City of Cape Town denies it’s facing an ocean ‘sewage calamity’

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: IEC audit trail challenges ANC’s claim of technical problems

Everything to play for as Springboks seek Greatest Rivalry series win

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THE GATHERING 2026: ‘No one is immune’ — NPA head vows criminal justice reset after Madlanga revelations

THE GATHERING 2026: SA has reduced violent crime before and can do it again, says justice expert

Final words: Rugby world will feel it as Springboks and All Blacks bump heads in Baltimore

Hong Kong court jails two Tiananmen vigil group leaders for 7 years

Americans to mark 25 years since September 11 attacks amid enduring grief, reflection

Five killed in bus crash near Swiss Alpine village

Idac faces a crucial test as new leadership takes on institutional dysfunction

THE GATHERING 2026: ‘Not too late to turn around SA’s municipalities with the right people in charge’

LETTER TO MAHLAMBA NDLOPFU: The villains, heroes and zeroes of the Republic of the Gupta

ESCAPE: How a humble Soweto parkrun cultivates joy and community in a neglected park

The Gathering 2026: Lion and mosquito: The spirit Daily Maverick brings to SA’s collapsing cities

THE BIG 50: From truancy to trout, a deliciously accidental career

CEDERBERG ENIGMAS: Stone galleries of the ancients: The |Xam, silenced artists of Agter Pakhuis

Sydney Airport flights disrupted due to air traffic controller shortage

Houthis advance along Yemeni coast, threaten Saudi oil exports in the Red Sea

Vance takes centre stage as Republicans weigh a post-Trump future

SCHOOL VIOLENCE: Under fire: Gun in a school backpack — why search-and-seizure operations aren’t enough

HARM REDUCTION: Global commission urges youth-focused drug policy reform

AGRICULTURAL SQUEEZE: Bread & Wine: When the wheat stops paying (Part Four)

BRICS SUMMIT: Will Ramaphosa follow Modi’s lead and confront Putin on Ukraine?

LITERARY LIARS: Not even my crime exposé book shielded me from these scamsters

DYNAMIC DUO: Apple’s gamble — the iPhone now folds — and SA’s digital divide just widened

RACE AGAINST TIME: No Plan B in race to lifesaving world champs readiness

ANALYSIS: From ActionSA to MK, the curious candidates of the local elections

DUTY OF CARE: Sky’s agonising final days — police dog’s death triggers scrutiny of SAPS animal care

ALL HANDS ON DECK : Residents rally again — reclaiming neglected Happy Valley

US-SA RELATIONS: Ramaphosa to provide ‘timely’ reply to Trump’s five asks

ENDURING IMPRINT: The family whose architecture shaped the Bay and beyond

AFTER THE BELL: We don’t talk anymore — the case for voice calls in a text age

SOCIAL (IN)SECURITY OP-ED: Flawed Sassa grant algorithms deepen inequality and violate constitutional rights

Financing reforms needed to turn stem cell donor matches into transplants in South Africa

Inequality of consequence: SA still hasn’t had a reckoning with the HIV/Aids years

Local government elections present a critical opportunity for civic rehabilitation

TROUBLE AT HOME: Zuma swaps MK party’s eThekwini mayoral candidate as party-list probe deepens

NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s outrageous ideas about nature and consciousness

Hong Kong court convicts Wall Street Journal publisher for seeking to block reporter from union role

Ryanair’s O’Leary accuses UK air traffic control boss of lying over outage

Ecuadorean court sentences former President Bucaram in COVID corruption case

GROUNDUP: Pleas for urgent help as 300 displaced Zimbabweans stuck at Joburg consulate

ADMINISTRATIVE ROT: Sascoc president’s suspension another integrity blow for SA sports governance

Watch — Inside the capture of Cape Town’s Planning Tribunal

BOOK REVIEW: Vitality pioneer Adrian Gore’s 4 principles that powered him to prosperity

WHAT’S COOKING: Braaing picanha — what it is and how to cook it

MC-Cycle-Fundraiser : Child hunger drives bid to raise R1-million on 650km cycle ride

BOOK EXCERPT: The Great Elephant Crossing: Did elephant herds once rumble through the Karoo plains?

Five dead, more than 80 missing after Philippine ferry fire

Republicans, touting Trump, attack Democrats as ‘dangerous, radical and weird’

August was world’s joint-hottest month on record, scientists say

CORRUPTION TRIAL : Why Mapisa-Nqakula paid cash to renovation workers — ‘I’m not an EFT person’

BUBBLES UP: France’s Champagne deficit presents golden opportunity for SA’s Cap Classique

INQUEST: Witness places rapper AKA at balcony moments after fatal fall of fiancée Anele Tembe

PUMPING HEART OF AFRICA: Congo Basin loss could trigger water wars across Africa — ex-Gabon minister Lee White

IN PICTURES: Scottish Ballet goes insectoid, and more from around the world

Industry Reality: Bread & Wine: What it takes to grow a glass of wine (Part Three)

ONGOING PROJECT: City defends R230m Lilian Ngoyi Street rehab as reopening is pushed to late October

MACROECONOMICS: We’re still standing — SA’s GDP contracted, but this does not a recession make

OUR CITY NEWS: Two more killed in Westbury as gang violence escalates sharply

A message for World News Day 2026: It’s time to fight for truth

‘barking up the wrong tree’: Rooftop solar showdown — Why Eskom threats have no power

TRC ROULETTE : SAPS refusal to pay legal costs stalled post-TRC Simelane prosecution, Nhleko tells Khampepe Commission

LEADING FROM THE FRONT: 100 Tests of Fortitude — how Rassie took the Springboks to the next level

Enforcement Powers: We’re not coming for your dogs and cats, says City over pet licensing uproar

Safe Haven: Limpopo care centre helps vulnerable children rebuild their lives through love and stability

PHALA PHALA: Impeachment committee labelled an ‘extension of the Presidency’ as evidence leader dispute continues

EQUAL EARTH OP-ED: Scale of justice: Redrawn world map finally reflects Africa’s rightful size

INQUEST HALTED: Biko family welcomes indefinite inquest postponement ‘with heavy hearts’

Israel tells Britain to close East Jerusalem consulate within 30 days, sources say

Malaysia PM’s coalition says graft convicts should serve full terms amid reports of Najib clemency bid

US accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘malicious’ copying of AI technology

Holocaust survivor ‘appalled’ by prospect of far-right in power in German state

Should the Electoral Commission bend the rules when parties fail to comply?

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Gaza genocide: SA boosts ICJ case while analysts blast government’s Israel coal sales ‘hypocrisy’

Dolly gave us all permission to love in a world that is forgetting how

THE EDUCATION DESK: SA Principals Association president issues 5-step appeal to ease burnout pressure

WHAT’S COOKING: Lamb shank tagine with dates, apricots, raisins and Moroccan spices

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: An ANC candidate list blunder could cost the party in the Eastern Cape

MATTERS OF THE ART: Nguni history is more than just ethnography — a curator of African art explains

CASE HALTED: Fraud trial of Komani cop hits bizarre legal snag

New Zealand to allow wealthy migrants to build rental housing

Gambia protesters burn tyres to denounce power cuts

Iran says it captured US submarine drone in Strait of Hormuz

War expands as Houthis attack Saudi cities and US strikes Iranian tankers

Durban Conference 25 years on: racism and xenophobia persist — act now

WAR OF WORDS: MK veterans defend Khusta Jack after mayor’s ‘attack’

Supreme Court of Appeal strikes a blow for radical change in SA public schooling

ENTRENCHED CULTURE OP-ED: Corruption by any other name — organised crime has replaced State Capture

CHASING THE GREEN: The money game — why the Springboks and All Blacks are playing in Baltimore

Heavy breathing: Mpumalanga community speaks out as study links Sasol pollution to 1,000 deaths

GROUNDUP: Eastern Cape villagers still waiting for water from 20-year-old scheme

Tried and busted: Brazil’s cocaine traffickers still targeting Durban harbour despite Madlanga focus