South Africa’s National Treasury is working on measures to encourage private investment in infrastructure projects, an initiative it hopes will silence calls from other quarters in the government to ...

Questions with Siyabonga Goni Get a sneak peek into the life of a Daily Maverick intern  journalist as he answers 20 questions for Maverick Insiders ...

Treat a cataplana like a wok for a seafood treat in the Portuguese style with a hint of Asia in it too. Imagine a sort-of wok that’s thought to be the forerunner of the pressure cooker. Without its ...

Deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal have pushed emergency services to the limit and much-needed reinforcements will arrive on Wednesday from Spain and Morocco, the civil protection ...

A large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered an earthquake-sized blast at a major arsenal in the Tver region on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a nearby town, war bloggers and some ...

Three brothers, built short and square like gnomes, once lived and dug for diamonds in the Wolmaransstad area of North West. One day, so the story goes, they found a “donderse groot goen” (an ...

Ireland could need to complete around 52,000 new homes each year until 2050 to house the country’s growing population, according to the central bank, a figure that far exceeds current government ...

The Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) dismissed its CEO Zolani Matthews in August for the third time after a protracted legal battle. The rail utility insists the process was ‘just and fair’.

Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security ...

Tupperware Brands Corp., whose plastic containers became synonymous with food storage, filed for bankruptcy following a years-long struggle with sales declines and growing competition. The 80-year-old ...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Tupperware Brands TUP.N filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late on Tuesday, succumbing to mounting losses amid poor demand for its once-iconic food storage containers. The ...

Russian forces captured the Ukrainian town of Ukrainsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday as they advanced westwards in a bid to take the whole of the Donbas, reported the Russian state-run RIA ...