News24 | FMD outbreaks continue to climb as Agriculture Department focuses on containment
As foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks continue to rise, the Department of Agriculture’s strategy is on containment, rather than eradicating.
Politics
News24 | Court dismisses urgent Joburg ANC election dispute, cites failure to follow party processes
An attempt to have the December election of Loyiso Masuku as the ANC Greater Johannesburg region chairperson overturned has fallen flat after the Gauteng High Court struck the matter off the court roll.
News24 | ANC Eastern Cape escalates conference impasse to Luthuli House
The ANC Eastern Cape leadership has confirmed that it will take its impasse over the conference to the party’s national leadership no later than Monday.
News24 | Mashaba unveils former MKP leader Mary Phadi as ActionSA’s campaign manager in Mpumalanga
ActionSA announced that former MK Party head in Mpumalanga, Mary Phadi, had joined the party as its provincial campaign manager.
News24 | Ngcukayitobi resigns as ANC Eastern Cape secretary
ANC Eastern Cape secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi has resigned.
News24 | Ramathuba becomes second-ever ANC woman chair in Limpopo, Ndlovu re-elected in Mpumalanga
Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba has become the ANC’s second-ever woman provincial chairperson in the history of the party, following in the footsteps of the late Edna Molewa, who was elected chairperson in the North West in 2004.
Inside the EFF Free State plot to remove Maluti-a-Phofung mayor
In a voice note obtained by the Mail & Guardian, a senior EFF leader is heard saying they would give councillors different coloured pens to identify how they voted and that councillors must come to council even if they were sick
Anxiety in DA over loss of cabinet perks
A source said the ministers viewed deployment in government as their new life and they are too comfortable with the benefits
‘Hlabisa stays. Buthelezi chose him’
Gauteng chair Bonginkosi Dhlamini says that challenging the founder’s choice for president would erode his legacy, sparking debate in the IFP
Motsepe leads the pack in new poll
If his camp put a serious campaign behind the numbers, no other ANC candidate would stand a chance, says the Social Research Foundation
ANC in QwaQwa allegedly organised “township thugs” armed with knives to disrupt mayor’s removal
A councillor said police had to be brought in to stop the disruptions
MK Party to oppose Gauteng provincial budget over ANC snub
The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal, while the EFF also withholds support over the insourcing of security staff
MK bid to block Batohi pension tests limits of presidential power
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has reserved judgment in the MK Party’s urgent application to block Shamila Batohi’s pension, after hearing arguments on urgency and the legality of withholding state-funded benefits
News24 | UPDATE | Former judge John Hlophe returns as MK Party’s parliamentary leader
Former Western Cape High Court Judge John Hlophe has made a sensational return to the MK Party’s leadership fold.
ANC deputy chief whip Nobuhle Nkabane found guilty of gross misconduct by misleading parliament
The ANC recently appointed Nkabane as its deputy chief whip in the National Assembly
News24 | WATCH | ActionSA’s James files intimidation case against PA’s McKenzie
ActionSA MP Dereleen James opened an intimidation case against Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader and sports, arts and culture minister Gayton McKenzie at the Central Police Station in Cape Town on Tuesday.
War over positions in Zuma’s party
Party members decry being sidelined by opposition party defectors
MK Party reinstates John Hlophe as deputy president and parliamentary leader
Hlophe returns to MK leadership roles months after suspension linked to caucus dispute
News24 | Foreign policy spat breaks out as FF Plus and ANC clash over US relations
The Freedom Front Plus, part of the government of national unity (GNU), says South Africa may have overplayed its hand by summoning US ambassador Leo Brent Bozell over his remarks about the song Kill the Boer.
News24 | Zuma fires MK Party’s 7th SG, appoints allies ahead of municipal polls
MK Party president Jacob Zuma has fired secretary-general Bongani Mncwango barely seven months after his appointment.
ANC weighs up wooing the DA in Gauteng
Party internal sources say the DA is not fishing in the same pond with them and that the other parties are contesting its base