WATCH | Ramaphosa, Trump brief media in Washington
President Cyril Ramaphosa met President Donald Trump on Wednesday at 11.30am EDT (5.30pm SAST) at the White House in Washington DC.
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WATCH LIVE | Ramaphosa, SA delegation brief media following meeting with Trump
President Cyril Ramaphosa met President Donald Trump on Wednesday at 11.30am EDT (5.30pm SAST) at the White House in Washington DC.
Budget 3.0 | Ramaphosa sets up committee on spending review
Initiative is expected to identify ghost workers and other anomalies across government departments
LISTEN | Billionaire Rupert in SA-US talks: EFF cries ‘state capture’
As President Cyril Ramaphosa meets US President Donald Trump face to face on Wednesday, the EFF is unhappy about billionaire Johann Rupert’s alleged role in the diplomatic delegation.
WATCH LIVE | Enoch Godongwana delivers budget speech
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana is on Wednesday delivering the budget following a postponement last month.
Ramaphosa to press Trump on attending G20 summit, racial redress
The presidency believes the US president knows his invective against South Africa is devoid of truth
News24 | Johann Rupert in Washington for Ramaphosa-Trump meeting, annoyed by ‘Afrikaner refugees’
Johann Rupert, South Africa’s richest man, is in Washington DC and could be part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s delegation to meet US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Luthuli inquest to be extended to June to hear more witnesses
Prosecutors in the reopened inquest into the death of ANC president-general chief Albert Luthuli in the Pietermaritzburg high court have asked for an extension of the matter to call more witnesses.
Malema says Afrikaner asylum seekers look like ‘car guards’, not farmers
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said that had AfriForum chief executive Kallie Kriel and his former deputy, Ernst Roets, have sought asylum in the US, they would have become ‘hobos’
Ramaphosa says decision to sign NHI Bill was politically sensitive
This rendered it immune to high court review, he argues in an application for leave to appeal an order to hand over the reasons for his decision
Solidarity threatens Ntshavheni with defamation over ‘inflammatory rhetoric’
The trade union has accused the minister in the presidency of weaponising discourse instead of focusing on facts
Ramaphosa to push for tariff relief, address refugee claims in US visit
President Cyril Ramaphosa will use his Washington visit to demand an end to US trade tariffs and counter refugee claims of racial persecution.
Johannesburg will expropriate property, but ‘not just for the fun of it’
Mayor Dada Morero said abandoned buildings will be seized to address the 1996 to 1997 RDP waiting list
Lesufi signals exit from politics, rules out ANC top seven bid ahead of 2027 conference
The premier and provincial co-convenor said the party would resurrect itself in Gauteng because there was no better alternative
Lesufi calls relocated Afrikaners ‘untransformed human beings’
He also said that ‘white only’ enclaves such as Kleinfontein would be dealt with within the ambit of the law
EFF purges KZN leaders accused of colluding with MK party
The EFF has removed two senior KwaZulu-Natal leaders after allegations of ghost branches, sabotage and defiance of Julius Malema’s directives
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Ramaphosa tells CEO forum white people who fled to US are not being ‘hounded’
He told US President Donald Trump during a phone call there was no racial persecution in South Africa
Lamola: Trump invited to G20, but attendance up to him to decide
The foreign minister reiterated that the US president’s offer of refugee status for Afrikaners was not made within the international definition of asylum
EFF sets its sights on North West – with the ANC
Despite public spats in Gauteng, the parties are teaming up in North West municipalities, including those where the ANC has a majority
News24 | Trollip denies he was assaulted in ‘wild’ altercation at Parliament
When is a punch-up not a punch-up? When the leader of a political party says it wasn’t.
News24 | Mbalula denies ‘one-way erosion’ of ANC’s support in KwaZulu-Natal
The ANC’s recently-constituted provincial task team (PTT) has led the party to two by-election wins out of a possible five – and ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says based on these and previous other outcomes, there is no evidence of a “one-way erosion” of the party’s support in KwaZulu-Natal.