Politics
South Africans urged to unite against wave of misinformation
Cabinet has urged all South Africans to stand united in defending the country against a growing wave of misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda aimed at...
Budget speech postponement not a sign of crisis – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has allayed concerns which have emanated from the postponement of the budget speech.
Speaking on the side lines of the first day...
‘Rising intolerance threaten already fragile global coexistence’
South Africa says the ongoing diplomatic tensions with the US are not only fuelled by Africa’s most industrialised economy’s decision to lodge a case...
‘Proposed VAT increase will hit black women hardest’
The uMkhonto weSizwe Women’s League (MKWL) has stated that the proposed 2% value added tax (VAT) increase was a direct attack on women and...
Bishop Tebe quits AAAM after being ‘used, dumped by Zuma’
Former president Jacob Zuma's political ally has jumped ship from the All African Alliance Movement (AAAM).
Bishop Meshack Tebe, the Secretary-General of the All African...
Magaqa’s alleged hit man dumps lawyer for snubbing his ‘confession’
It was a day of high drama at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday where the alleged hit man in the assassination of former...
ANC bigwig Mabuyakhulu bounces back as KZN coordinator
Mike Mabuyakhulu, the ANC’s political heavyweight in KwaZulu-Natal and former MEC for Economic Development, Tourism, and Environmental Affairs, is back in the bigger scheme...
MK Party’s high-ranking KZN official Phumlani Mfeka jumps ship
Phumlani Mfeka, a firebrand and controversial leader of pressure group Injeje YabeNguni, has dumped the Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), saying he no longer has...
KZN municipality’s R8bn transport system still dysfunctional
The daggers are out for eThekwini metro to explain why it continues to fund a dysfunctional Go Durban project that has been put on...
NW Scopa faces off with MEC Lenkopane over ‘failure to account’
Tension is mounting at the North West Provincial Legislature as the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) clashes with Bitsa Lenkopane, the MEC for...
IFP-led municipality pays wages to expelled EFF councillors
The City of uMhlathuze in KwaZulu-Natal, led by the IFP, has been paying monthly salaries to three councillors despite them no longer being members...
Paris Summit | Why EU distrusts Trump’s Ukraine war intervention
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday said debates over the participation of German troops in a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine were premature, hours before...
Zuma’s daughter Duduzile finally apologises to Shivambu
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of former president and MK Party (MKP) leader Jacob Zuma, has apologised once more to Floyd Shivambu, the party's secretary-general,...
Is Mbuyiseni Ndlozi joining top radio station?
Power FM, a Gauteng-based commercial radio station, is rumoured to be pursuing former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) spokesperson and parliamentarian Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
And the politician...
‘Expropriation Act will not repeat the mistakes of apartheid’
President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised that South Africa will not replicate the forced removals that typified land dispossession during the apartheid era and that...
More electoral woes for ANC as it loses another ward in...
The electoral bloodbath continues to haunt the once-governing party after it suffered yet another defeat at the hands of its traditional political foes, the...
Limpopo ANC bigwig accuses fellow comrades of ‘academic fraud’
An ANC member of the Limpopo provincial legislature, Che Selane, could be in hot water after implying that many in the party's provincial leadership...
DA insists Hammanskraal residents still face water challenges
Even though the City of Tshwane is celebrating the completion of phase one of the Magalies Klipdrift Water Treatment upgrade, the DA asserts that...
‘Ramaphosa must deal with Trump by closing Israeli embassy’
EFF leader Julius Malema called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israel Embassy in South Africa to demonstrate that the country “will not...
ANC banks on recent form to win key by-election in KwaZulu-Natal
The ANC believes it was on the right trajectory to win back electoral support in KwaZulu-Natal.
The once-governing party suffered a heavy electoral defeat in...
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla apologises but not to Floyd Shivambu
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party) MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has apologised publicly for using foul language against the party's secretary-general Floyd Shivambu on social media.
Interestingly,...
More than 100 Tshwane officials in firing line over graft
City of Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has revealed that more than 100 of the metropolitan municipality’s staff members were facing disciplinary action.
Moya said this...
Zuma threatens daughter Duduzile with expulsion from MKP
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) leader Jacob Zuma has threatened to cancel Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla's party membership if she does not apologise to the MKP...
DA wants court to nullify Expropriation Act in its entirety
The DA has taken legal action to overturn the Expropriation Act, arguing that the law was adopted unconstitutionally.
The party made this claim in an...
MK Party lays treason charges against AfriForum
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) has filed criminal charges against AfriForum, accusing the organisation of treason and undermining South Africa’s national interests.
A group...
Opposition declares Free State premier ‘worse than Magashule’
Free State premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae is under fire from opposition political parties, who have reacted to the ongoing service delivery crisis in the province...
Sona’s call to unite divided people, geopolitical affirmation of BRICS
As expected, President Cyril Ramaphosa took the opportunity at Sona to address the elephant in the room, the shifting platonic plates in geopolitics, and...
Municipal funding model review on cards to bolster service delivery
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the government of national unity (GNU) will invest heavily in the local government sphere to accelerate service delivery...
