Politics
Parly wants no-fee schools forcing pupils to pay ‘donations’ probed
The allegations that some public schools in the Eastern Cape were hounding pupils to pay a minimum of R100 for "donations" for school essentials...
ActionSA proposes laws to trim executive, deal with corruption
ActionSA parliamentary caucus leader Athol Trollip has announced the Cabinet Reform Package and Zero-Tolerance Corruption Bill as pieces of legislation aimed at reshaping South...
Zizi Kodwa demoted, Godlimpi promoted as Mbalula reshuffles subcommittees
ANC administration boss Fikile "Vutha" Mbalula has reshuffled the national executive committee (NEC) subcommittees as well as deployments to provinces.
In doing so, the biggest...
ANC’s Bheki Mtolo’s chaotic stunts brought him to a fall
Former ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo dug his own grave with a series of defiant acts that irked ANC national officials and national...
Limpopo ANC regions race against time to hold conferences
The clock is ticking for ANC Limpopo’s regions to hold elective conferences in the coming few weeks to choose the next crop of leaders...
Ex-ANCYL Free State secretary calls for provincial congress probe
A former Free State ANCYL secretary has called the integrity of the latest provincial league congress into question.
Mayibuye Bangani wrote to the ANCYL and...
‘Mpumalanga’s future hinges on coal despite green energy push’
Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu has reaffirmed that coal remains the backbone of the province’s economy, despite a growing emphasis on renewable energy.
Ndlovu was delivering...
Shivambu drops axe on MKP Mpumalanga convenor Mary Phadi
The Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) has expelled its Mpumalanga leader, Mary Phadi, accusing her of defying party processes by challenging her 2024 expulsion in...
Msimanga disrupts Lesufi’s response to SOPA debate
Chaos erupted in the Gauteng legislature when a DA leader disrupted the State of the Province (Sopa) debate response on Thursday.
DA Gauteng chairperson Solly...
Ramathuba eyes special economic zones for job creation
Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba used her maiden State of the Province Address (Sopa) to punt special economic zones as vehicles to deliver the province...
Ramaphosa wants G20 to pump money into just energy transition
President Cyril Ramaphosa has mentioned the mobilisation of finance for a just energy transition (JET) to be among the key issues that the G20...
Heavy police presence as Mbalula unveils new Gauteng leaders
There was heavy police presence at the Midrand Conference Centre on Wednesday as ANC secretary-general Fikile “Vutha” Mbalula unveiled the newly appointed ANC Gauteng...
DA says planned Tshwane budget change could mask corruption
The Democratic Alliance in Tshwane has alleged that there could be shenanigans in the budget revision the mayor is about to announce.
Nasiphi Moya is...
Solidarity wants Trump’s administration to punish ANC
A group from the Solidarity Movement, which includes members of the predominantly Afrikaner trade union Solidarity and the Afrikaner rights organisation AfriForum, met with...
ATM warns against unchecked spying powers in security bill
The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has stated that it supports stronger intelligence laws but has warned against violating privacy and press freedom.
The party raised...
Mbalula says ANC reconfiguration is not punitive
The decision to chop KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng top leadership had to be made if the ANC were to survive the existential threat it faces.
That...
South Africans urged to unite against wave of misinformation
Cabinet has urged all South Africans to stand united in defending the country against a growing wave of misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda aimed at...
Budget speech postponement not a sign of crisis – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has allayed concerns which have emanated from the postponement of the budget speech.
Speaking on the side lines of the first day...
‘Rising intolerance threaten already fragile global coexistence’
South Africa says the ongoing diplomatic tensions with the US are not only fuelled by Africa’s most industrialised economy’s decision to lodge a case...
‘Proposed VAT increase will hit black women hardest’
The uMkhonto weSizwe Women’s League (MKWL) has stated that the proposed 2% value added tax (VAT) increase was a direct attack on women and...
Bishop Tebe quits AAAM after being ‘used, dumped by Zuma’
Former president Jacob Zuma's political ally has jumped ship from the All African Alliance Movement (AAAM).
Bishop Meshack Tebe, the Secretary-General of the All African...
Magaqa’s alleged hit man dumps lawyer for snubbing his ‘confession’
It was a day of high drama at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday where the alleged hit man in the assassination of former...
ANC bigwig Mabuyakhulu bounces back as KZN coordinator
Mike Mabuyakhulu, the ANC’s political heavyweight in KwaZulu-Natal and former MEC for Economic Development, Tourism, and Environmental Affairs, is back in the bigger scheme...
MK Party’s high-ranking KZN official Phumlani Mfeka jumps ship
Phumlani Mfeka, a firebrand and controversial leader of pressure group Injeje YabeNguni, has dumped the Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), saying he no longer has...
KZN municipality’s R8bn transport system still dysfunctional
The daggers are out for eThekwini metro to explain why it continues to fund a dysfunctional Go Durban project that has been put on...
NW Scopa faces off with MEC Lenkopane over ‘failure to account’
Tension is mounting at the North West Provincial Legislature as the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) clashes with Bitsa Lenkopane, the MEC for...
IFP-led municipality pays wages to expelled EFF councillors
The City of uMhlathuze in KwaZulu-Natal, led by the IFP, has been paying monthly salaries to three councillors despite them no longer being members...
Paris Summit | Why EU distrusts Trump’s Ukraine war intervention
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday said debates over the participation of German troops in a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine were premature, hours before...
