ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula will announce the ANC’s decisions on the future of the Government of National Unity (GNU) on Tuesday.

With talks to get the government of national unity back on track, Deputy President Paul Mashatile has reiterated the ANC never depended on the DA for anything.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile has made it clear the ANC will proceed with implementing the national Budget with or without the support of the DA.

If ActionSA leaders made a mistake on the national Budget, they will own that mistake, but for now the party wants a Budget for the country.

Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza has rejected requests to postpone Parliament’s vote on the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue proposals.

The Presidency has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa and DA leader John Steenhuisen are scheduled to meet on Tuesday morning to discuss the Budget deadlock.

According to a New York Times report, the United States has deployed teams to convert commercial office space in Pretoria into ad hoc refugee centres for white Afrikaners.

The ANC appears nonchalant about the prospect that some of its leaders could face sanctions by a hostile Trump administration.

Much of the more than R10 billion irregular expenditure at the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality won’t be recovered any time soon as officials place a great emphasis on write-offs as opposed to clawing back their lost money.

The company contracted for demolition work on the razed parliamentary buildings, despite a chequered track record with government contracts, faces penalties after failing to complete its work on time.

The ANC is not confining itself to a 0.5 percentage-point VAT increase, and the door to engagement on the matter remains wide open, says the party’s secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula.

While the ANC will not prescribe what other parties can sing or chant, the party does not believe the Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer song is relevant in the current political space, said ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula.

As you walk into the ANC Gauteng headquarters in Jan Smuts Avenue, a collection of portraits of past presidents hangs on the wall. Interestingly, it does not include President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is serving his second term as party president.

MPs want answers from the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure after toing and froing about whether the dome housing the National Assembly chamber would be available for a crucial budget vote.

A defiant Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his detractors can “continue barking”, but nothing will stop him, Zanu-PF and the country from moving forward.

The Durban-based metro’s historic “dome” symbol will likely be removed from the City’s logo should the governance and human resources committee – where ANC councillors enjoy the majority – succeed in pushing it through the ANC, IFP and EFF-led council next week.

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe has been tasked with fostering peace in the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel has criticised the judges who ruled that EFF president Julius Malema’s “Kill the Boer” chant did not constitute hate speech, and has accused them of adopting a “radical ideological interpretation” of the Constitution.

“We are also people, and we have rights,” a young representative of the LGBTQIA+ community said, defiant in the face of the homophobia that reared its head as the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs conducted a public hearing on the Marriage Bill in Mthatha on Monday.

When the ANC’s NEC meets on Friday, the tensions between the US and SA are expected to dominate the discussions.