TUESDAY, 03 MARCH 2026, 21:37
Defence Minister Angie Motshekga has clarified that military leaders can speak out against challenges in the SA National Defence Force, but saays they must do so via internal command channels.
Collen Malatji has been re-elected unopposed as ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa was kept waiting for more than two hours on Monday as the ANC Youth League conference at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane suffered a considerable delay.
Malatji’s slate was also not contested at the youth league’s 27th national congress
A scuffle broke out when MK party members rejected the results, prompting the proceedings to be adjourned
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has survived a motion of no confidence in his leadership.
The ANC Youth League’s 27th national congress at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane got off to a shambolic start.
The league said most of the people who had voted for the party last year were young people
The interim report of the Madlanga Commission, established to probe explosive allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal top cop Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, won’t be publicly available.
Embattled City of Tshwane deputy mayor and finance MMC Eugene “Bonzo” Modise was re-elected as the Greater Tshwane Region chairperson in a midnight election over the weekend.
The ANC national general council has decided that SACP members should be recused from ANC election workshops and strategy meetings amid discussions on addressing differences between alliance partners.
The ANC will win back majority power, secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said as the party concluded the third day of its national general council in Boksburg on Wednesday.
The ANC intends on keeping its financial report a secret – but the party, hamstrung by a R20-million monthly salary bill, admits that its financial standing is “battered”.
ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu believes the party’s money troubles, which played out publicly when staff members held a picket at the start of its 5th national general council (NGC), show that the organisation is “poor” – not corrupt.
On the first day of the party’s national general council, chairperson Gwede Mantashe slammed Ramaphosa’s detractors and urged them to ‘say whatever you want to say here and not outside these walls’
The president also told a meeting of his ANC that criminals, corrupt careerists, extortionists and factionalists should find themselves outside of the party
Loyiso Masuku is the new chairperson of the ANC’s Greater Johannesburg region, having been elected by 184 delegates.
The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott
The suspended police minister denied that he had consulted before disbanding the political killings task team, saying his directive was a process
The United States has sent out invitations to G20 members for the first Sherpa meeting of its presidency of the forum but left out South Africa, according to the Department of International Relations.
Sources said Gwamanda had brought the motion out of anger after being dropped as a member of the mayoral committee