News24 | Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis survives first motion of no confidence
The motion of no confidence against Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis was defeated, with 138 councillors voting against it, 46 in favour, and one abstention.
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EFF to use ‘kill the boer’ as part of 2026 election strategy
The Economic Freedom Fighters insist on the use of the struggle song as a rallying cry ahead of the polls
Ramaphosa: Racial redress is not stunting growth
The president said the low growth was a function of the slow transfer of the means of production to black South Africans
MK party sacks Manyi as chief whip, replaces him with Makhubela
Jacob Zuma’s party has removed Mzwanele Manyi, replacing him with former Joburg speaker Colleen Makhubele amid calls for leadership restructuring
Johannesburg mayor Morero warns contenders for ANC regional posts not to sabotage his government
Dada Morero has said he will stand for a second term as the Greater Joburg chair
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Ramaphosa’s big Trump trade-off
But he secured tentative trade talks as negotiations with officials on a pact between South Africa and the US were set to continue
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Trump confronts Ramaphosa over farm murders in White House exchange
Some of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s delegates told the US president there were excessive levels of crime in South Africa, and asked for his help to curb it
MK party targets Ramaphosa, Godongwana in motion of no confidence over budget ‘chaos’
uMkhonto weSizwe party is calling for the nationalisation of mineral resources, land redistribution without compensation and the expansion of the VAT zero-rated basket
Budget 3.0 tentatively accepted by some political parties
The EFF criticises it as ‘unimaginative’ and not benefiting poorer South Africans, while the DA calls it a step towards ending ‘unchecked government spending’
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.
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