Politics
South Africa’s communists grapple with existential electoral gamble
An internal challenge is threatening to upend the SACP’s landmark decision to end its decades-long electoral alliance with the ruling ANC.
Blade Nzimande, the party’s...
R54bn revitalisation funding for metro municipalities
Government unlocked R54-billion performance-based funding for metro municipalities to improve infrastructure and service delivery over the next six years.
This metro trading services reform was...
ANC activist says the NGC a final opportunity for party to...
A member of the ANC's international relations subcommittee, Abner Mosaase, shared an internal critique demanding that the party voluntarily cull its dominant political power...
Mathews Phosa proposes direct presidential elections to combat ‘crisis of trust’
Senior South African business and political figure Mathews Phosa has issued a stark warning that the nation is “sitting on a powder keg” of...
SACP wields truth as scalpel, exposes Trump’s ‘white genocide’ propaganda
In the turbulent arena of international discourse, where narratives are wielded as strategic weapons, a recent statement from the SACP cuts a definitive line...
Parliament grills Shamila Batohi over Phala Phala case
The unresolved questions around the Phala Phala farm scandal took centre stage on Tuesday as National Director for Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi told Members...
ANC NWC clears disputed Limpopo regions of wrongdoing
The ANC National Working Committee (NWC) has moved to bring finality to internal disputes in Limpopo, ratifying all regional conferences in the province while...
SA’s communists decry ‘Same aGAIN’ economic plan as inequality festers
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has launched a searing critique of the government’s proposed new economic framework, labelling it the “Same aGAIN” strategy...
Shamila Batohi under fire over prosecutor ‘involved’ in organised crime
Shamila Batohi, the national director for public prosecutions, has come under fire for not naming a prosecutor who is allegedly connected to organised crime.
Batohi...
Vusi Matlala ad hoc committee testimony could be heard in safe...
The parliamentary ad hoc committee plans to hear the testimony from alleged Big Five cartel member Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala for the last three days...
ActionSA’s Xolani Khumalo sworn in as Ekurhuleni councillor: ‘We’ll clean out...
Xolani Khumalo, the ActionSA mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni, was sworn in as a council member on Monday, vowing to start the battle to repair...
Mayor appeals to Ramaphosa for SIU probe amid corruption allegations
The embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality has formally requested President Cyril Ramaphosa to deploy the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe allegations of systemic corruption,...
Jacob Zuma Foundation accuses state of waging political war on Duduzile
The Jacob G Zuma Foundation is claiming that the 2021 July unrest incitement case against former president Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, is driven...
Premier Panyaza Lesufi calls for police probe as G20 infrastructure is...
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has called on law enforcement to intervene amid a wave of alarming infrastructure and signage vandalism in Johannesburg ahead of...
Maqueen’s ‘fierce’ nemesis faces axe from top government job
A top Free State government official and nemesis of the provincial premier could be fired from her plush job after being found guilty of...
SACP warned of bloodshed in KZN if it contests ANC in...
The central committee (CC) of the SACP has been warned that its decision to contest next year’s local government elections against the ANC, its...
MPs buried call to probe Cele over PKTT meddling, says...
Human rights activist Mary de Haas has accused parliament of ignoring her warnings that former police minister Bheki Cele interfered in the work of...
‘Big Five’ implicated in kidnappings for ransom
The notorious “Big Five” cartel, which the South African police alleges specializes in drug trafficking and contract killings, is also implicated in a series...
Lesufi and Nkomo-Ralehoko fall out over ascendancy to ANC throne
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi and health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko are having a falling out after he allegedly reneged on their initial agreement to hand...
How Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni snubbed the ‘Big Five’ cartel
Taxi tycoon Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni has demonstrated that he is not an average Joe when he ended his bromance with the late former taxi...
MK Party whips call out Makhubele’s R1.8m mystery deal and “spousal”...
MK Party chief whip Colleen Makhubele allegedly pushed a R1.8-million contract with the party for a company linked to her "spouse" and sought a...
ANC confirms Senzo Mchunu’s voluntary step-aside plea
The African National Congress (ANC) has confirmed that suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has expressed his willingness to step aside from all organisational work,...
Russia sends technocrat to G20 as Putin skips Johannesburg summit
President Vladimir Putin has appointed a senior technocrat from his presidential staff to lead Russia’s delegation at this month’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, replacing...
No action taken to blacklist firms implicated in R2bn looting at...
Despite public outrage over the R2-billion looting uncovered at Tembisa Hospital, the companies implicated in the corruption scandal are still not blacklisted or banned...
Nhlamulo Ndhlela lambasted for ‘poking nose’ in MK Women’s League business
The uMkhonto weSizwe Women’s League (MKWL) chairperson, Mabel Rweqana, has slammed party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela for attempting to use the women’s structure to validate...
‘Ex-minister Malusi Gigaba not arrested, won’t appear in court,’ says IDAC
Former finance and public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba has not been placed under arrest and will not be appearing in court on Friday.
Henry Mamothame,...
Breaking | Minister Senzo Mchunu hands over devices to police investigators
Senzo Mchunu, the police minister currently on special leave, has turned over all his electronic devices that the police need for their investigations.
As part...
Former minister Malusi Gigaba confirms he’ll be appearing in court
Former finance and public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba says he will appear in court on Friday morning after being informed by the National Prosecuting...





























