A tug of war has erupted between AfriForum and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) over the decades-old One Settler, One Bullet slogan of the Pan Africanists.

Police Minister Bheki Cele says the officers involved in the forceful evictions that took place in Khayelitsha will be dealt with as their conduct during the operation was unacceptable. Cele has visited the area to meet with the community and Bulelani Qhalani, the man who was evicted with no clothes on while his shack was being broken down.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has rejected Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato’s announcement that an independent investigation will be done into the incident in which a naked Bulelani Qhalani was evicted from his shack on city land. 

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) says the government needs to act and stem the high level of violence metered out by law enforcement on the vulnerable.

Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs receives briefings from the City of Cape Town and the South African Human Rights Commission on law enforcement actions, including evictions, during lockdown. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is concerned with the job losses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ramaphosa was speaking during his visit to assess Mpumalanga province’s response to the coronavirus in Mbombela. 

Gauteng Premier David Makhura says he is consulting about introducing a hard localised lockdown in the province.

Makhosonke Buthelezi said the Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) was meant to assist companies which lost income during the hard lockdown.

Stricter regulations are needed in Gauteng in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the province. This is according to Gauteng Premier David Makhura who has given an update on the state of the pandemic in the province on Thursday.

The National Assembly Programme Committee has agreed that Health Minister Zweli Mkhize should make a statement on the coronavirus situation in the country during a hybrid National Assembly Sitting on Wednesday next week.

African National Congress (ANC) national chairperson Gwede Mantashe says any board chairperson of a State-Owned Entity who approaches the party, seeking intervention on corruption-related issues indicates that they do not know their job.

The City of Johannesburg could be placed under administration after it missed the deadline for passing its budget before the start of the financial year, BusinessLIVE reported.

Former Prasa chief executive Lucky Montana “ruthlessly abused his power” and crushed anyone standing in his way, the state capture commission heard on Thursday.

The majority of people who have died as a result of Covid-19 in Gauteng are between the ages of 50 and 79 – and most of them are men.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has called for the country to return to level 5 lockdown for the next three months.

In this episode of the Sunday Times Politics Weekly podcast, the team discusses Helen Zille’s tweets and what her presence means for the seemingly aimless political party.

Gauteng premier David Makhura on Thursday said the province would make submissions to the national coronavirus command council to reintroduce stringent measures to try slow the spread of Covid-19, including an intermittent lockdown.

The South African Communist Party (SACP) in Limpopo has broken ranks with the ANC and slammed the reinstatement of party leaders implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank.

Gauteng chairperson, Mike Moriarty, says the party needs stability, not controversy, at its helm

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says a Constitutional Court judgment, dismissing the party’s application for direct access to the court in order to contest the constitutionality of certain aspects of the Disaster Management Act, won’t stop it from seeing its mission through.

Fikile Mbalula is the latest to have his speech remixed by ‘Zol’ producer Max Hurrell