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ANC Free State leaders accused of milking troubled municipality

27 February at 00:15 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The ANC provincial working committee in the Free State has been accused of defying the party’s deployees in government, resulting in the near collapse of the Matjhabeng local municipality. Sources say provincial chairperson Mxolisi Dukwana and secretary Polediso Motsoeneng have used their political power to undermine premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae’s intervention in the municipality, which is […]

Dlabathi falls in wake of EFF exit

27 February at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

The EFF has rejected a renewed partnership, leading to ANC Ekurhuleni regional secretary Jongizizwe Dlabathi stepping down as finance MMC

Political parties criticise budget speech amid stagnant growth

25 February at 17:18 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Parties and labour organisations have slammed the 2026 Budget for failing to tackle low growth, high unemployment, and municipal distress, while cautiously welcoming tax relief and social grant increases

Gauteng water crisis in the forefront as political parties challenge Lesufi’s Sopa promises

24 February at 14:00 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Gauteng’s prolonged water crisis and Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent comments — for which he later apologised — about using hotel facilities during outages returned to the forefront as political parties responded to his State of the Province address. The speech did not provide sufficient detail on how the province would end the chronic water shortages, […]

Steenhuisen faces palace revolt

20 February at 00:30 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Senior Democratic Alliance officials are backing Western Cape agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer to replace the party leader as agriculture minister after its April federal congress

Sona debate: Ramaphosa defends task teams and slow recovery

19 February at 17:01 PM, via Mail & Guardian

MPs had criticised the president for establishing another task team to tackle the country’s water crisis after he set up a police special investigations task team to probe those implicated in corruption at the Madlanga commission

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