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’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, […]

The president is expected to respond to the MPs’ questions regarding oversight and reporting on a task team on political killings before conclusion of the committee’s inquiry in March

Makhubele’s departure follows months of internal leadership changes in Jacob Zuma’s party

ActionSA leader joins the likes of DA’s Helen Zille to claim city’s top post

MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae said the state of municipalities was not encouraging

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

The president has pushed back against MPs claims’ that the successes outlined in his State of the Nation address should be credited to coalition partners

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

The Economic Freedom Fighters said it would take up a position on the council’s opposition benches instead

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen much of the progress made ‘bears the unmistakable imprint of the DA’s principled participation’ in the government of national unity

The party singled out the city’s chief financial officer, whom it accused of flouting the Municipal Finance Management Act among other failings