South Africa, Aug. 31 -- Daily Maverick has published the line-up for The Gathering 2026: Cities Edition, in partnership with Ninety One. The event will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Friday, 11 September and will stream online.

The day is built to answer the definitive questions of the moment, and to send the audience home able to do something with the answers. Are South Africa's municipalities beyond saving - or is there still a way back, and what would it take?

Writing in Daily Maverick this month, editor-in-chief Jillian Green described the debit orders her Johannesburg suburb now pays for private security, back-up water and solar power. "We have built a shadow municipality out of debit orders for sec...