Politics

R1.7bn in municipal pension deductions not paid to workers’ funds: Godongwana

Municipalities across South Africa have failed to pay R1.7-billion deducted from workers' salaries into their pension funds, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana revealed on Friday,...

Free State MEC backs Treasury move against municipal financial mismanagement

The Free State Finance, Economic Development and Tourism MEC Ketso Makume has thrown his weight behind the National Treasury’s decision to temporarily withhold local...

DA’s Tony Leon dilemma: Starlink and South Africa’s invisible marketplace of...

South Africa has become remarkably good at recognising state capture only after the damage has been done. We know what it looks like when...

Treasury cuts likened to ‘cutting oxygen’ from struggling municipalities

Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi has criticised National Treasury's decision to withhold funding from struggling municipalities, saying the move would deepen the local government crisis...

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...