
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
FRIDAY, 08 AUGUST 2025, 18:12
Despite public spats in Gauteng, the parties are teaming up in North West municipalities, including those where the ANC has a majority
When is a punch-up not a punch-up? When the leader of a political party says it wasn’t.
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.
The National Lotteries Commission and the private sector look set to fill the funding gap in the health sector.
Angry Lebowakgomo residents chased away Lepelle-Nkumpi Municipality ANC Mayor Meriam Molala and allegedly pelted her vehicle with stones on Wednesday.
Agriculture Minister and DA leader John Steenhuisen will respond this week to ActionSA’s question about his and his deputy’s travel costs.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says “the days of standing by and watching while taps in our townships, factories, and rural areas run dry [or] sewage runs into, not only our rivers, but into homes of our people, should be over”.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has emphatically rejected the idea of nationalising the SA Reserve Bank.
South Africa is politically nimble on the international stage, but its good diplomatic messaging has earned it little monetary value.
The Protection of State Information Bill could result in the abuse of power and unreasonable infringements of rights, as well as undermine the principle of legality, says Parliament’s legal services which sent the contentious bill back to the House.
The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisations to meet on Tuesday.
The EFF has accused the British High Commission in South Africa of deliberately failing to process a visa application in time for party leader Julius Malema to visit the UK for an address at Cambridge University.
The Johannesburg mayor is to declare a state of disaster for crime and lawlessness, starting in July
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader was to have addressed a conference at Cambridge University on 10 May
The DA has submitted a motion of no confidence in Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero and Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu.
The secretary general has once more been accused of violating party rules to influence regional elections in Limpopo and Gauteng ahead of the 2027 leadership contest
The ministry sought to counter the DA’s argument that the targets amount to unfair discrimination
Whether or not the United States government honours the invitation to attend the G20 meeting later this year, South Africa will make the event a success, according to Deputy President Paul Mashatile.
Internal polls forecast at least 40% of votes in the local government elections, while warnings against factionalism abound
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