Politics

Cosatu warns alliance drift could hand power to opposition

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in Gauteng has issued one of its strongest warnings yet over the future of the tripartite...

‘I’m mayor Joburg never knew it needed’ – Ntsiki Mazwai takes...

"The fact that they are all talking about me speaks for itself. If I were a non-entity, there would be silence." That is how Land...

Case opened against police boss Puleng Dimpane over R48m paid to...

Acting national police commissioner Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane is facing fresh legal scrutiny after civil society organisation Public Interest SA laid a criminal complaint...

Search for top cops to head Hawks, Ipid begins

Government has formally begun the search for permanent heads of the Hawks and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), two of the country's most...

‘Government has gone rogue’: Solly Mapaila alongside SAMWU marchers

Workers in bright South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) t-shirts filled the streets of Pretoria on Thursday, waving placards demanding salaries, secure jobs and...

SAMWU accuses Treasury of ‘sabotaging service delivery’ ahead of national protest

The South African Municipal Workers' Union (SAMWU) has accused National Treasury of "sabotaging service delivery" by withholding equitable share allocations from struggling municipalities, saying...

SACP joins SAMWU protest as alliance rift over Treasury deepens

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has thrown its weight behind the South African Municipal Workers Union's (SAMWU) National Day of Action, turning Thursday's...

Analysis | Knives out for Tshwane city manager

The fight over Tshwane city manager Johann Mettler has come dressed as accountability. It may yet prove to be that. But in the capital...

Ekurhuleni bigwigs arrested in SAPS overnight swoop linked to Madlanga

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has confirmed the arrest of four suspects during an overnight takedown operation carried out in various parts of...

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana drawn into Cape Town township funding row

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been pulled into a fresh funding dispute over Cape Town’s townships after Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka found that service-delivery...