A week before the first event of the National Dialogue, the legacy foundations, touted to play a key role in the initiative, announced that they would not participate on 15 August and that they withdraw from the preparatory task team.

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The Independent Development Trust Board announced that it has placed the trust’s beleaguered CEO, Tebogo Malaka, on precautionary suspension.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed respected judge Dunstan Mlambo as deputy chief justice.

The National Council of Provinces passed the Appropriation Bill on Wednesday, bringing Budget 2025’s fraught passage through Parliament to an end.

A forensic investigation into a more than R800-million oxygen plant tender awarded by the Independent Development Trust has recommended that disciplinary action be taken against CEO Tebogo Malaka, general manager for supply chain management Molebedi Sisi, and other officials.

The latest development in Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s business ties has fuelled further questions about transparency and conflicts of interest.

Opposition parties in KwaZulu-Natal have called for an urgent probe into Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka after allegations of tender rigging and political interference in tender processes surfaced.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has rebuked ‘some opposition parties’ that have labelled Operation Vulindlela a form of ‘privatisation’, describing the criticism as ‘baseless and misguided’.

Higher Education and Training Minister Nobuhle Nkabane snubbed Parliament by failing to attend a meeting in which she was supposed to account for the administrative mess relating to her controversial appointment of SETA chairpersons.

The DA’s spokesperson on international relations, Emma Powell, claims the United States denied President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special envoy, Mcebisi Jonas, a diplomatic visa in May this year.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has established a judicial commission of inquiry into allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.

Former deputy president David Mabuza will be buried on Saturday in Mpumalanga.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will respond to the explosive allegations of political interference and police complicity in crime in an address to the nation on Sunday night.

National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza has assigned three parliamentary committees to consider allegations that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has been colluding with criminal underworld players.

Following severe flooding in the Eastern Cape, the province is expected to receive a R504-million allocation of a R1.2-billion municipal disaster recovery grant.

Former deputy president David Mabuza has died in a Mpumalanga hospital at the age of 64.

Before former deputy minister Andrew Whitfield was axed, DA leader John Steenhuisen asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to reconsider his decision, dock Whitfield’s salary or publicly reprimand him.

A cache of pictures and videos show the cosy ties between Deputy President Paul Mashatile and the inner circle behind the new lottery operator, Sizekhaya Holdings.

In the first year of the government of national unity (GNU), experienced ANC Cabinet ministers had to constantly remind their DA colleagues that they do not only represent their political parties.

Following the axing of one of its deputy ministers, DA leader John Steenhuisen has warned President Cyril Ramaphosa that all bets are off if corruption-accused ANC ministers are not fired within 48 hours.