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.

The State Security Agency has distanced itself from what it calls “diversionary tactics” being employed through the allegations presented in the so-called Operation Sibonkolo report.

More than 30 000 Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters gathered at the Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Stadium in Ulundi, northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday, to celebrate the party’s golden jubilee.

In a bold move, ANC elder Snuki Zikalala has openly challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cautionary stance against exacerbating the tensions between South Africa and the United States.

Former South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, has reportedly left Washington, meeting a deadline set by Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week.

Due to his busy schedule, Pretoria has had to move Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s state visit to South Africa from 10 April to 24 April, the Presidency confirmed this week.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed, with costs for two counsel, an appeal emanating from ANC battles over the validity of the party’s 2022 North West provincial elective conference.

South Africans can celebrate Human Rights Day with the knowledge that, according to a poll by Ipsos, the majority of their compatriots support human rights.

Farm murders are a minuscule percentage of murders in South Africa, pouring cold water over the right-wing notion that the South African government is permitting the killing of Afrikaner farmers, as espoused by the US administration of President Donald Trump.

Former Western Cape legislature speaker and senior DA member Masizole Mnqasela is off the hook after the National Prosecuting Authority decided not to prosecute him for alleged fraud due to a lack of prospects for a successful case.

Gauteng Finance MEC Lebogang Maile has tabled a budget of R171 billion for the 2025/2026 financial year.

The abrupt expulsion of Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to the US, violated every provision of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, according to international relations experts who spoke to News24.