TUESDAY, 03 JUNE 2025, 17:21
President Cyril Ramaphosa says “the days of standing by and watching while taps in our townships, factories, and rural areas run dry [or] sewage runs into, not only our rivers, but into homes of our people, should be over”.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has emphatically rejected the idea of nationalising the SA Reserve Bank.
South Africa is politically nimble on the international stage, but its good diplomatic messaging has earned it little monetary value.
The intervention team, led by 73-year-old veteran Snuki Zikalala, is expected to be operational in June.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced an initiative to help people find homes closer to where they work.
Malema said he was at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg when he received a letter four hours before his departure informing him he had been denied a visa.
The Protection of State Information Bill could result in the abuse of power and unreasonable infringements of rights, as well as undermine the principle of legality, says Parliament’s legal services which sent the contentious bill back to the House.
The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisations to meet on Tuesday.
The EFF has accused the British High Commission in South Africa of deliberately failing to process a visa application in time for party leader Julius Malema to visit the UK for an address at Cambridge University.
The Johannesburg mayor is to declare a state of disaster for crime and lawlessness, starting in July
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader was to have addressed a conference at Cambridge University on 10 May
Minister says the decision to either take back the successfully claimed land or get paid resides with the claimants and government cannot force them to take the land instead of the money
“State of disaster” declared to clamp down on crime.
The parliament portfolio committee on women, youth and persons with disabilities has declined the request to summon podcaster MacGyver “MacG” Mukwevho to parliament over his controversial remarks about media personality Minnie Dlamini.
The KwaZulu-Natal department of health is in a shambles and owes service providers R1.7bn.
The DA in the City of Johannesburg will try to oust mayor Dada Morero.
The DA has submitted a motion of no confidence in Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero and Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu.
The secretary general has once more been accused of violating party rules to influence regional elections in Limpopo and Gauteng ahead of the 2027 leadership contest
The ministry sought to counter the DA’s argument that the targets amount to unfair discrimination
EFF leader Julius Malema has visited the family of the seven-year-old girl known as Cwecwe who was allegedly raped at Bergview College in the Eastern Cape last year.
Mfananaye Mathe demoted after special meeting of regional IFP leadership.