President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared foot-and-mouth disease, which is devastating the farming economy, a national disaster.

Opposition parties have not taken kindly to “detached” Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s apology” for his comments on dealing with the inconvenience experienced by the water crisis.

DA MPL in the Free State, Werner Pretorius, is the party’s candidate for the Manguang Metro in the upcoming local government elections.

Controversial forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan will appear before the parliamentary ad hoc committee investigating the infiltration of the criminal justice system.

The DA has announced political analyst and academic Professor Theo Venter as its mayoral candidate for the JB Marks Municipality in the North West.

The DA’s Joburg mayoral candidate, Helen Zille, says the City of Johannesburg faces so many challenges that she has often asked herself where she would start solving them if she were to wear the mayoral chain.

The outspoken, controversial Zimbabwean war veteran Blessed Runesu “Bombshell” Geza, 73, at the centre of a movement calling for the removal of president Emmerson Mnangagwa, died in the early hours of Friday at a Johannesburg hospital.

The ANC Youth League has called for the immediate dismissal of all mayors and municipal managers in municipalities, which the Auditor-General has flagged as collapsed and non-functional.

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