FRIDAY, 27 MARCH 2026, 11:42
The EFF opened a case against former British Military Intelligence officer Paul O’Sullivan on Friday morning, after he walked out of the ad hoc committee investigating the underworld’s encroachment on the criminal justice system the day before.
DA Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga put his hand up for the federal chair position held by Ivan Meyer
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 […]
In Thabong township, many children have sores on their hands and feet, which locals say are caused by contact with sewage
The EFF has rejected a renewed partnership, leading to ANC Ekurhuleni regional secretary Jongizizwe Dlabathi stepping down as finance MMC
Former City of Johannesburg speaker and MK Party chief whip Colleen Makhubele has replaced politics with the airwaves.
Jongizizwe Dlabathi has resigned from his roles as ANC Ekurhuleni regional secretary and as a member of the mayoral committee in the City of Ekurhuleni.
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
ANC Youth League secretary-general Tsakani Shiviti has resigned from Parliament, and her seat has been taken by her deputy in the party, Zama Khanyase.
Parliamentarians serving on the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture grilled Minister John Steenhuisen on the terms of reference for his foot-and-mouth disease task team, demanding to know exactly what the task team’s role would be.
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
The turmoil in the MK Party caucus continues with the resignation of one of its former chief whips, Colleen Makhubele, as an MP.
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
The ANC in Ekurhuleni has accused ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba of stepping away from coalition talks to protect City of Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moyo.
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
The ANC is riding the wave of what it sees as a political victory for President Cyril Ramaphosa – the successful repatriation of members of the Zuma family and the MK Party (MKP) who were trapped on the frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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