Author: Bongani Mdakane

ActionSA's parliamentary caucus leader Athol Trollip
National, Politics

ActionSA unhappy Cyril Ramaphosa ‘unilaterally’ hired Andy Mothibi as NDPP

ActionSA has called on incoming prosecutions boss Advocate Andy Mothibi to clean up the mess that had been infiltrating the National Prosecuting Authority. The party... Read more.
ActionSA has accused mayor of Polokwane John Mpe of desregarding human lives over alleged contaminated water in Seshego
News

ActionSA lambasts Polokwane mayor John Mpe over ‘contaminated water’

ActionSA leadership in Limpopo has stated that it will be lodging a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against the Polokwane local... Read more.
Child abuse
Crime

Mother arrested for abandoning her eight-month old baby

Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) at Kabega Park in Gqeberha have arrested the mother of an eight-month-old baby who was found abandoned. The infant... Read more.
Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured by the US government in the military attack carried out on Saturday
Breaking News

South Africa urges UN to act after Donald Trump ordered attack on Venezuela

The South African government has raised concerns regarding the military attack carried out by the US under its state president Donald Trump’s instructions. In... Read more.
Doornkop building collapsed and killed three people
News

Doornkop building collapse exposes a city’s hollow promises to its most vulnerable

In the shadowed silence of a Soweto morning, a building meant for purpose became a tomb for the desperate. The collapse of an unlawfully occupied structure in Doornkop... Read more.
NFP leader and MEC of Socia Development Mbali Shinga preaches unity at the party after attempts to remove her from her job failed
National, Politics, Politics, Provincial

MEC Mbali Shinga fights second ouster attempt, warns of NFP self-destruction

National Freedom Party (NFP) KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson and MEC for Social Development, Mbali Shinga, is fighting what she calls a second concerted attempt... Read more.
MEC Mbali Shinga to keep her job after the KZN Speaker Nontebeko Boyce told the NFP's acting secretary Bheki Xaba to go fly a kite when he demanded that the party's KZN Chairperson be axed
Politics, Politics, Provincial

NFP’s bid to recall MEC Mbali Shinga fizzles as Speaker cites rule book

In what appears to be a blunt lesson in the separation between party discipline and constitutional governance, the National Freedom Party’s (NFP) attempt to unceremoniously... Read more.