SATURDAY, 01 FEBRUARY 2025, 09:42
From the ANC’s disastrous loss in the 2024 elections to the collapse of the moonshot pact and the death of prominent leaders and former ministers, 2024 has been a sea-change moment for the political discourse.
In 2025, the “progressive caucus” in Parliament will have to show their grit amid the political warfare between its two biggest players, the EFF and MK Party. Watching the battle from the sidelines, the other caucus members will have to figure out where exactly they fit in, writes Jason Felix.
Duty-free access renewed for another year as the country prepares to strengthen trade ties with the US
Minister says he will pursue all measures to validate his withdrawal of the bill
After years of demanding that he should “pay back the money” for his controversial Nkandla residence, the EFF now wants to attach assets at former president Jacob Zuma’s property.
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen says he hopes the three-month impasse over his chief of staff Roman Cabanac’s continuing employment will be resolved “soon” – but stressed the podcaster’s dismissal must follow “due process”.
The Ministry of Minerals and Petroleum Resources has spent a staggering R1.92 million on international travel in just four months.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has urged men to stop viewing women as possessions, saying the mentality of thinking they own women because they provide material items contributes to gender-based violence.
Financial malaise at councils is due mainly to defaulting households, government departments.
The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an application by MKP deputy president and his party for leave to appeal an interim order preventing him from being a member of the Judicial Service Commission.
The ANC’s Fébé Potgieter-Gqubule says the introduction of mother tongue education in all South African languages up to grade 12 is the right direction.
“We are on course to end our year with a 94% completion of our backlog.”
“There’s no win-win there because the DA did not want clauses 4 and 5 [of the Bela Act] so that did not actually happen. Now, we are moving ahead with the implementation so I am saying it’s not a win-win,” said Mbalula.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula is on Saturday briefing the media on the full implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act.
The National Assembly’s temporary home for the next two years – a dome last used for the funeral of Nelson Mandela in Qunu – has been handed over to the contractors charged with erecting it.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the full implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act.
The DA in Limpopo’s Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality is demanding the mayor’s immediate removal over allegations that she attempted to obstruct justice.
The SACP, EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe party are all looking at potential new alliances
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ActionSA wants accountability over the appointment of Jabu Mbalula as the Free State’s acting premier after it was reported that he is insolvent.
The IFP’s national executive committee has recalled its Amajuba district municipal mayor Prince Ndabuko Zulu in Newcastle.
Johann Smith, an independent risk analyst living in Mozambique, fears a deadly Christmas period in South Africa’s neighbouring country will follow the Constitutional Council decision on Monday.