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The DA leader’s interest in the position has sent political parties scrambling to find stronger candidates as the 2026 municipal elections loom
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Former MK Party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu has announced the beginning of a process to form a new political outfit after he was accused of trying to overthrow former president Jacob Zuma.
Observers say the government of national unity has kept parties such as the EFF and MK in check, but jobs, growth and reform remain elusive
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The United Kingdom has refused to grant EFF leader Julius Malema a visa due to his “extremism”, which that country said includes his support for Hamas and a call to “slaughter white people”.
Shivambu closed the door on returning to the EFF, calling his former party a ‘cult’
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Fed up with what they describe as “tyranny”, at least 100 former National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) members have formed a breakaway union.
The faction is opposed to those who joined from other parties, such as Floyd Shivambu, assuming strategic leadership positions in uMkhonto weSizwe party
Sibuyile Magingxa, the co-winner in Johannesburg’s R263-million water tanker tender, and his romantic partner, Lesedi Phala, were part of the South African delegation. Their presence, absent from official records but captured in photos and video alongside Paul Mashatile, exposes a deeper problem: access without accountability and the power of political proximity.
The ANC Youth League president said those who serve in government and are considered to be youth of the party should only fear him, not opposition parties
The party has developed a performance tracker that grades the government of national unity on everything from leadership and crime to education
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa says he will consider the EFF’s urgent request to him to declare a national state of disaster in response to the floods in the Eastern Cape.
The ANC Youth League president said he would rather EFF leader Julius Malema returned to the ANC than Shivambu, who he dismissed as having no support base
The supreme court of appeal held that the acquittal of officials and Gupta associates on fraud and money-laundering charges was a failure of justice
The outcome of the 2024 national elections left South Africa in uncharted territory. When the ANC fell short of a majority, managing only 40% of the vote, the country was uncertain about what lay ahead.
Democratic Alliance federal leader’s possible comeback as Joburg mayor also rattles rivals
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet has extended its condolences to the families of those who lost loved ones in the flooding that hit several parts of the Eastern Cape.
Sources said that despite Vuyo Zungula being a member of the African Transformation Movement’s national executive committee, he was at the meeting that resolved to remove him as party president
The Build One South Africa leader said South Africa had neglected its relations with the US with the underlying mantra that to be anti-west is to be progressive
Caesar Nongqunga is the ATM’s new president, while Vuyolwethu Zungula remains the parliamentary leader
Tshwane’s deputy mayor said the Democratic Alliance’s consideration of its federal chairperson as Johannesburg’s mayor suggested the DA’s lack of confidence in its leadership in the city