ActionSA has proposed giving the Electoral Commission of SA access to the bank accounts of political parties to prevent them from holding events that cost millions of rand, even though they only declare a few thousand.

The often-murky world of political party funding will be illuminated in the Western Cape High Court this week.

Parliament will debate the diplomatic fallout between the US and SA governments after Speaker Thoko Didiza granted the EFF’s request for an urgent parliamentary debate on a United States decision to halt aid to South Africa.

Infighting in the MK Party has escalated to its parliamentary caucus, with allegations that things became physical between the party’s deputy president, John Hlophe, and its chief whip, Mzwanele Manyi.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised unity and a shared goal – “a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it” – in the face of divisiveness fuelled by a local lobby group and the administration of US President Donald Trump.

On a rainy Thursday, a poignant scene unfolded at the Swartkops Air Force Base in Centurion, Gauteng.

President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t allow forced land removals nor the arbitrarily expropriation of land without compensation following week-long pressure from US President Donald Trump over the Expropriation Act.

Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille has praised her home affairs counterpart, Leon Schreiber, for progress made on the country’s visa regime.

Although the MK Party bagged 54% of the vote in a ward in the uMhlabuyalingana Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal during the general elections in May and took all the voting districts there, its support has nosedived to 19% in this week’s by-elections.

In his capacity as the commander-in-chief of the SA National Defence Force, President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to receive the bodies of 14 soldiers who died during combat against M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.