News24 | Ministry of Minerals and Petroleum Resources spent R1.9 million on international travel in 4 months
The Ministry of Minerals and Petroleum Resources has spent a staggering R1.92 million on international travel in just four months.
Politics
News24 | High Court rejects another bid by MKP to get Hlophe back on JSC
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.
News24 | Welcome to Parlidome: National Assembly’s new home – a temporary dome – ready for set up
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.
News24 | Ramaphosa authorises full implementation of BELA Act
President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the full implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act.
News24 | DA wants Limpopo mayor axed over claim she offered intern money to withdraw rape case
The DA in Limpopo’s Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality is demanding the mayor’s immediate removal over allegations that she attempted to obstruct justice.
Second political realignment is in the offing ahead of 2026 poll
The SACP, EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe party are all looking at potential new alliances
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News24 | ActionSA demands answers over appointment of ‘insolvent’ Jabu Mbalula as acting Free State premier
ActionSA wants accountability over the appointment of Jabu Mbalula as the Free State’s acting premier after it was reported that he is insolvent.
News24 | Expert fears fresh post-election violence will follow Mozambique’s Constitutional Council decision
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.
Lines in the sand drawn and redrawn in the first five months of the GNU
Pre-existing policy tensions between the ANC and the Democratic Alliance have been the biggest stressors on Ramaphosa’s government
Ramaphosa found resolve after losing the ANC’s majority
Negotiating a broad coalition to hold the political centre was perhaps the president’s finest political hour
News24 | DA distances itself from committee chair’s support of state agency amid alleged oxygen plant graft
The DA has distanced itself from remarks of the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure on the Independent Development Trust after the portfolio’s minister, Dean Macpherson, instituted an investigation into a tender that the IDT awarded.
Malema predicts ANC 2027 conference will elect a president who is anti GNU
The EFF president said the party would be ready to go into a coalition government with the ANC nationally once it dumped the Democratic Alliance
Zuma preaches black unity ahead of 2026 and 2029 elections at MK party’s first anniversary rally
The former president said political power was ‘only four years’ away
Mbeki calls on SACP to engage in national dialogue as tripartite alliance fights for survival
The South African Communist Party says it will not backtrack on its decision to contest alone in the 2026 local government elections
Malema : Don’t ask me anything about Mbuyiseni Ndlozi
The EFF leader said Ndlozi was not at the conference and that it was not in the party’s interests to entertain such “nonsense”
Bela accord still possible
It can be achieved through the regulations the education minister must draft
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Ramaphosa to announce decision on Bela Act after GNU clearing house concludes discussions
Deputy President Paul Mashatile said the president would soon reveal the fate of the contentious law after months of deliberations and consultations
ANC awaits SACP’s details on its decision to contest elections
ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile said the party’s national executive committee respected the SACP’s decision to campaign alone for 2026 local government elections
Gauteng EFF will support Malema for third term as president
The party’s Gauteng chairperson, Nkululeko Dunga, ‘has no national ambitions’
MK party to contest every ward in 2026 local government elections
Jacob Zuma’s party aims for a branch in every ward by the middle of 2025
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EFF conference expected to deliver Malema’s third term
Former secretary general Godrich Gardee appears set to be elected as deputy president
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