WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026, 14:50
Parliamentarians serving on the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture grilled Minister John Steenhuisen on the terms of reference for his foot-and-mouth disease task team, demanding to know exactly what the task team’s role would be.
Gauteng’s prolonged water crisis and Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent comments — for which he later apologised — about using hotel facilities during outages returned to the forefront as political parties responded to his State of the Province address. The speech did not provide sufficient detail on how the province would end the chronic water shortages, […]
The president is expected to respond to the MPs’ questions regarding oversight and reporting on a task team on political killings before conclusion of the committee’s inquiry in March
The turmoil in the MK Party caucus continues with the resignation of one of its former chief whips, Colleen Makhubele, as an MP.
Makhubele’s departure follows months of internal leadership changes in Jacob Zuma’s party
ActionSA leader joins the likes of DA’s Helen Zille to claim city’s top post
MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae said the state of municipalities was not encouraging
The ANC in Ekurhuleni has accused ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba of stepping away from coalition talks to protect City of Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moyo.
Senior Democratic Alliance officials are backing Western Cape agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer to replace the party leader as agriculture minister after its April federal congress
The president has pushed back against MPs claims’ that the successes outlined in his State of the Nation address should be credited to coalition partners
The ANC is riding the wave of what it sees as a political victory for President Cyril Ramaphosa – the successful repatriation of members of the Zuma family and the MK Party (MKP) who were trapped on the frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
MPs had criticised the president for establishing another task team to tackle the country’s water crisis after he set up a police special investigations task team to probe those implicated in corruption at the Madlanga commission
Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA has distanced itself from any involvement in the City of Ekurhuleni’s governing coalition.
The Economic Freedom Fighters said it would take up a position on the council’s opposition benches instead
Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen much of the progress made ‘bears the unmistakable imprint of the DA’s principled participation’ in the government of national unity
The party singled out the city’s chief financial officer, whom it accused of flouting the Municipal Finance Management Act among other failings
Public Protector and advocate Kholeka Gcaleka says the distance between her and any investigation in which she may have a personal interest “is as clear as day”.
The ad hoc committee investigating KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkwanazi’s allegations now has until the end of March to complete its work.
The Economic Freedom Fighters will be accommodated in the reshuffled committee, sources told the Mail & Guardian
The US has not had a permanent ambassador to South Africa since January 2025
The South African Police Service wants custody of the body of the late former Zambian president Edgar Lungu, News24 has reliably learnt.