Politics
EFF’s Sihle Lonzi takes aim at NSFAS over R145m wastage
EFF member of parliament Sihle Lonzi is seething with anger over NSFAS’s apparent waste of R145-million paying useless intermediaries between the state entity and...
Overtime policy saw Tshwane losing R130m due to power cuts –...
The DA in Tshwane says the overtime policy has cost the municipality R130-million in lost electricity revenue in a single month while leaving residents...
Inappropriate to probe matter heard in court: Kholeka Gcaleka rejects ATM’s...
The Office of the Public Protector has declined to pursue an investigation concerning alleged failures by state organs to combat illicit financial flows (IFFs)...
John Hlophe calls on Jacob Zuma to rein in daughter, party...
Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) parliamentary caucus leader Dr John Hlophe has raised the red flag over party boss Jacob Zuma’s daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla...
DA lays charges against higher education minister Hlengiwe Nkabane
The DA has laid criminal charges against Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane, accusing her of misleading Parliament regarding the appointment process for members of...
SACP wants Thabo Mbeki in driving seat of National Dialogue
The SACP wants former president Thabo Mbeki to be at the forefront of the recently announced National Dialogue.
The party's call comes after concerns that...
ANC says Sindiso Magaqa’s death left scar while killer pleads for...
The self-confessed killer of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa has pleaded with the Pietermaritzburg High Court to be lenient on him and...
‘I didn’t snub NUM congress, had another commitment but sent Fikile...
The 18th National Congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) kicked off with great expectations at Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg but quickly turned...
DA leader Steenhuisen bloodies Zille camp’s nose in Fedex meeting
The DA federal council chairperson, Helen Zille, and her faction, who pushed for the party to table a motion of no confidence in President...
State capture disciplinary hearing flop laid squarely at Mbalula’s door
In a stunning rebuke to the ANC’s much-touted “renewal” project, four of South Africa’s most prominent politicians – Malusi Gigaba, Zizi Kodwa, David Mahlobo,...
Inside Zuma’s court bid to remain ANC
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has launched a legal assault against the ANC and President Cyril Ramaphosa, branding his expulsion a “political witch-hunt”...
DA remains in GNU, but withdraws support for National Dialogue
After threatening President Cyril Ramaphosa with an ultimatum, the Democratic Alliance bark did not match its bite, as they have resolved to remain in...
Free State High Court orders dissolution of underperforming municipality
The Free State High Court has ruled that the Ngwathe Local Municipality is in breach of its constitutional duties to provide basic services to...
Cyril Ramaphosa spills tea on why he fired DA deputy minister
President Cyril Ramaphosa has broken silence on the dismissal of Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition Andrew Whitfield.
He explained that Whitfield had undertaken...
Parly concerned NYDA is run by interim board whose term ended...
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities expressed its concern on Friday about the delayed appointment of the new permanent board...
‘MK isn’t right party to fight South African challenges’ – Floyd...
Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party) secretary-general Floyd Shivambu has expressed no confidence in the MK Party, the African National Congress, and the Economic Freedom...
Floyd Shivambu retracts drug allegations as Nhlamulo Ndhlela launches R3m defamation...
UMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) national spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela has filed a defamation lawsuit against the party’s former general secretary, Floyd Shivambu, seeking R3-million in...
Minister Dean Macpherson urges new IDT board to complete execs’ lifestyle...
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson says the newly appointed Independent Development Trust (IDT) board must hit the ground running by completing...
Phillip Vilakazi elected new NUM president, replacing Dan Balepile
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has ushered in a new era of leadership, with Phillip Vilakazi elected as president during the union's 18th...
Tshwane coalition partners back Mncedisi Ndzwanana against DA motion
Tshwane Speaker Mncedisi Ndzwanana has survived a motion of no confidence brought against him by the Democratic Alliance.
Ndzwanana, an ATM councillor, survived after 114...
ANC deputy SG Nomvula Mokonyane says party will defend decision to...
ANC’s first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the ANC will defend its decision to expel its former president Jacob Zuma from the party in...
Africa still reeling from Libya war, tread carefully on Iran –...
The government has urged all sides involved in the conflict between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately defuse the situation and...
Helen Zille calls urgent meeting as Cyril Ramaphosa fires DA deputy...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has axed Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Andrew Whitfield from the position of Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition.
Speaking during a...
‘Shivambu moving clumsily after becoming another one of Zuma’s victims from...
The politics of the left in South Africa are in disarray, and there is no end in sight as long as one man is...
Free State ANCYL to march against ANC premier over unemployment crisis
Free State premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae and the ANC leadership are in for a serious march aimed at turning tables on the province.
This comes after...
Nehawu to take battle to ‘enemy’ Sadtu, organising in education sector
The friction between the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) is set to deepen...
Pretoria High Court halts burial of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu...
The Pretoria High Court has issued an urgent interdict halting the private burial of Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu, who died on June 5...
Jabulani Khumalo’s MK Party NPC bid branded ‘dangerous myth’
The battle over the soul of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party continues to erupt publicly as senior figures aligned with former President Jacob Zuma...
