News24 | DA targets ANC stronghold Mangaung metro amid service delivery collapse
DA MPL in the Free State, Werner Pretorius, is the party’s candidate for the Manguang Metro in the upcoming local government elections.
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News24 | Paul O’Sullivan to appear in person at ad hoc committee this week
Controversial forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan will appear before the parliamentary ad hoc committee investigating the infiltration of the criminal justice system.
News24 | Political analyst, academic Theo Venter is the DA’s mayoral candidate for JB Marks
The DA has announced political analyst and academic Professor Theo Venter as its mayoral candidate for the JB Marks Municipality in the North West.
News24 | WATCH | Eldorado Park hears Zille’s stark warning: Joburg’s issues like ‘Armageddon’
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.
News24 | Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa rival Blessed Geza dies of cancer
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.
Thumbs up for Motsepe
“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”
Steenhuisen blows DA succession race wide open
Siviwe Gwarube and Geordin Hill-Lewis are among those touted to take over party leadership
EFF vows to ‘punish’ ANC at polls
Next local government elections will be a decisive test, Malema says as party launches plan of attack
News24 | ANCYL demands dismissal of ‘lazy’ mayors in collapsed municipalities flagged by the AG
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.
News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Who succeeds Steenhuisen? With Pieter du Toit and Velani Ludidi
Seasoned broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer brings you The Lead, News24’s definitive podcast for in-depth reporting.
EXCLUSIVE: “I don’t get forced to do anything,” says Steenhuisen
The DA leader insists he is “going nowhere” despite his announcement that he will not be contesting for the party’s leadership role
Hill-Lewis throws hat in the ring to replace Steenhuisen
In a message seen by the M&G, he says that even if he does stand as leader, he intends to remain mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Steenhuisen speaks to the M&G about his future
‘If I stood for re-election, I would have won hands down,’ DA leader says
Court orders interim curator to manage Mabuza’s R44.7m pension amid family dispute
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
Numsa concerned about staff safety after spokesperson Hlubi-Majola resigns because of death threats
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa did not say whether it had opened a case with the police
John Steenhuisen to withdraw from Democratic Alliance leadership race
Sources in the DA say the decision was partly influenced by Steenhuisen’s soured relationship with Helen Zille
This is the third time my life has been threatened, Numsa spokesperson says as she quits
Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said she had received one of the death threats while travelling to parliament
News24 | Grid collapse warning: 58% of households in the dark amid Mpofana Municipality power crisis
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”.
News24 | UPDATE | Israel retaliates after SA declared Israel’s chargé d’affaires persona non grata
Israel retaliated on Friday after South Africa declared the chargé d’affaires of its embassy, Ariel Seidman, persona non grata.
News24 | Eastern Cape residents in standoff with KZN govt over river bordering both provinces
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
Mabuyane ‘avails’ himself for 3rd term
The Eastern Cape chair said he would stand for deputy president too if nominated to do so