The KwaZulu-Natal government has been requested to pay for a R3 million, one-way trip to Malawi for Zulu King MisuZulu kaZwelithini and traditional leaders to attend a festival.

Freedom Under Law wrote to National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza to complain about John Hlophe’s designation to the JSC, and to inform her of a subsequent court challenge to remove him from the legal body.

Former Cabinet minister Zizi Kodwa’s shock appointment to Parliament – and resignation just four weeks later – shows South Africans that the ANC is not serious about dealing with state capture corruption and its own renewal.

A demonstration to intensify the calls for Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda to resign is set to take place on Saturday.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has trained one eye on the internal ructions in the NFP – a crucial partner in the government of provincial unity – and the other on the construction industry, which is being held to ransom by the construction mafia.

Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Velenkosini Hlabisa says municipalities misusing funds and failing to deliver services will be dissolved.

With the loan, the city plans to fix, replace and upgrade roads, bridges, water pipes, wastewater plants and the power grid.

The Electoral Court is hearing the DA’s legal challenge against President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Sunday address to the nation a few days before the May 29 elections.

Addressing Parliament for the fourth time in a week, President Cyril Ramaphosa took on the racially divisive, anti-constitutionalist posture of the so-called Progressive Caucus, presenting an alternative of a “free, democratic, united and prosperous” South Africa.

Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba says the recently launched provincial government road service delivery programme, called Dikgerekgere Wednesday, will not go out to tender

National Freedom Party president Ivan Barnes has been interdicted from suspending 15 senior party members

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The president said he carried final responsibility for ensuring the executive functioned efficiently and his office had a proven track record of reform

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended the size of the Presidency, saying strong co-ordination from the centre of government was critical to ensuring government programmes were implemented.

EFF leader Julius Malema has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to reduce the size of his cabinet, specifically deputy ministers, saying they are “unnecessary”.

Deputy minister in the Presidency Nonceba Mhlauli gave a critique of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s opposers during her speech in parliament this week, labelling them “Disneyland combatants”.

Jacob Zuma is facing ANC disciplinary action for endorsing and campaigning for the MK Party.

Political parties are pressing for the establishment of a parliamentary committee that will hold the president and Presidency to account.

EFF leader Julius Malema has implied that President Cyril Ramaphosa was being a crybaby for complaining about the firebrand leader’s questioning of his personal and political credentials.

Unchastened after a rebuke from the president, the EFF leader reiterated his claim that Ramaphosa sold mineworkers down the river

The Umzimvubu Local Municipality council in the Eastern Cape elected Sivikele Mathebe, 27, as the new speaker on Monday after the resignation of Nkosomzi Nomnganga earlier this month in line with an instruction from the ANC.

The party argues that the ANC was wrong about the law when it saw no legal impediment to his appointment

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