Politics
Meet the voter the EFF wants to win
The EFF’s November 4 election advert, released on Tuesday, clearly targets Black, working-class voters who live in townships, informal settlements, rural villages, or neglected...
Treasury freeze casts shadow over Shayi’s MEC elevation
National Treasury froze R300-million meant for Mopani District Municipality after the council failed to deal adequately with unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure during...
COSATU pushes for 200,000 cops
COSATU wants South Africa’s police service expanded to at least 200,000 officers, warning that detective caseloads, low salaries and inadequate equipment are weakening the...
The many lives of slain Lucky Sokhela
At 34, slain Lucky Nhlanhla Sokhela had already lived several lives.
To some, he was a feared hustler from KwaSwayimane in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). To others,...
Free State MK Party candidates disappear from election lists
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s dispute-resolution structure has found that a rival structure in the Free State had no authority to reopen completed ward candidate-selection...
Brics can contribute in four ways: Cyril Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday underscored that Brics could contribute in four ways to strengthen and reform the existing systems of global governance and...
Brics adopts Delhi Declaration with mention of West Asia situation
The New Delhi declaration at the Brics leaders' meeting on Saturday expressed deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in West Asia/Middle East...
IEC digital trail undermines ANC’s election glitch claim
The Electoral Commission of South Africa has used the ANC’s own digital activity to undermine its claim that technical failures prevented it from submitting...
Inside the chaos behind the KZN ANC’s list capturing process
The ANC’s candidate-list problems in KwaZulu-Natal have exposed a series of capturing blunders that saw candidates swapped between wards, duplicated across different wards and...
Tessa Dooms | Don’t just mobilise – organise!
In the 2024 elections, out of the 27.67-million registered voters, 17.7% were voters below the age of 30 and yet voter turnout among this...
