Politics

Elections 2026 | Gardee takes EFF’s eviction notice to church

EFF deputy president Godrich Gardee heads to a Lutheran church in Mbombela on Wednesday morning, carrying what he describes as an eviction notice for...

Elections 2026 | Godi casts ballot to remove ANC from municipal...

Former Scopa chairperson Themba Godi will vote in Bushbuckridge on November 4, calling for the ANC to lose control of municipal finances after decades...

Elections 2026: From cheers to boos, Ramaphosa faces another test at...

President Cyril Ramaphosa's traditional voting station in Soweto will become a test of whether the ANC can recover ground in his neighborhood when South...

Elections 2026 | Mkhwebane’s early ballot examines MK Party’s local ambitions

Former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is two days ahead of most South Africans at the ballot box, but her MK Party still has a...

Elections 2026 | Mashaba heads to country’s richest square mile to...

ActionSA president and Johannesburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba will head to the country's richest square mile on Wednesday to cast his vote, as he...

Elections 2026 | Zille’s road to Joburg mayor’s office starts at...

On November 4, Helen Zille heads to a primary school in Johannesburg, but the examination awaiting her is far bigger than anything on a...

Elections 2026 | Mashaba’s right-hand man eyes Joburg’s economic revival

A former diplomat who helped establish South Africa's diplomatic presence in Rwanda from a hotel in Kigali is preparing for another formidable assignment: helping...

Elections 2026 | Mandla Ndlovu returns home with grandmother’s promise

"Swi ta hela, n'wananga." Those were the comforting words Mandla Ndlovu's grandmother offered him when poverty and hardship weighed heavily on their household. "It will come...

Elections 2026 | ‘Asinavalo’ singer Gamelihle Mbuyane changes tune as MKP...

For years, Gamelihle Mbuyane supplied the soundtrack to the African National Congress (ANC)'s political ambitions, singing the praises of its presidents and stirring thousands...

O’Sullivan threatens legal action if Mkhwanazi becomes Hawks head

Forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan has threatened urgent court action to block the appointment of KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as the new national...