WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL 2026, 04:09
The DA’s Joburg mayoral candidate, Helen Zille, says the City of Johannesburg faces so many challenges that she has often asked herself where she would start solving them if she were to wear the mayoral chain.
The outspoken, controversial Zimbabwean war veteran Blessed Runesu “Bombshell” Geza, 73, at the centre of a movement calling for the removal of president Emmerson Mnangagwa, died in the early hours of Friday at a Johannesburg hospital.
“This is not about Patrice waking up one morning and wanting to be president,” the lobbyist said. “It is about stabilising the centre of power before the ANC implodes”
Siviwe Gwarube and Geordin Hill-Lewis are among those touted to take over party leadership
Next local government elections will be a decisive test, Malema says as party launches plan of attack
The ANC Youth League has called for the immediate dismissal of all mayors and municipal managers in municipalities, which the Auditor-General has flagged as collapsed and non-functional.
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The DA leader insists he is “going nowhere” despite his announcement that he will not be contesting for the party’s leadership role
In a message seen by the M&G, he says that even if he does stand as leader, he intends to remain mayor
‘If I stood for re-election, I would have won hands down,’ DA leader says
Last year Mabuza’s daughter, Tamara Silinda, filed an urgent application to stop Alexforbes from paying the money to Nonhlahla Mnisi, who was the country’s second lady when Mabuza was President Cyril Ramaphosa’s deputy
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa did not say whether it had opened a case with the police
Sources in the DA say the decision was partly influenced by Steenhuisen’s soured relationship with Helen Zille
Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said she had received one of the death threats while travelling to parliament
At 58%, most of the households in the ANC-led Mpofana Local Municipality don’t have access to electricity, and the town is at risk of a “possible grid collapse”.
Israel retaliated on Friday after South Africa declared the chargé d’affaires of its embassy, Ariel Seidman, persona non grata.
Parliament has been asked to intervene as tensions brew between Eastern Cape residents and the KwaZulu-Natal-based Ugu District Municipality over the uMtamvuna River, which straddles both provinces
The Eastern Cape chair said he would stand for deputy president too if nominated to do so
The emphasis on might and control risks further weakening America’s position as a dependable global partner in diplomatic settings
Johannesburg executive mayor, Dada Morero, has survived another day after the motion of no confidence in him was deferred.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted the recommendations in the interim report of the Madlanga commission of inquiry into the capture of the criminal justice system, which urges the criminal investigation of five police officers and nine Ekurhuleni Metro officials.