Former President Kgalema Motlanthe speaking at an event South Africa will continue to engage with the United States of America. This amidst global anxiety about US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs that will take effect on August 1. Former President Kgalema Motlanthe’s foundation hosted a seminar looking at how Pretoria should navigate the new order….
[FILE IMAGE]: A hospital bed inside a hospital. Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head Andy Mothibi says investigators have finalised their investigation at the Tembisa Provincial Hospital in Gauteng. The probe followed the murder of corruption whistleblower and employee of the Gauteng’s Health Department, Babita Deokaran in August 2021. She had exposed widescale tender corruption. The…
[FILE IMAGE]: Reserve Bank Governor, Lesetja Kganyago. The UDM, Costu, ActionSA and Build One South Africa (BOSA) have welcomed the decision by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) not to increase interest rates. The MPC announced today it would cut the repo rate by 25 basis points. The organisations say the cut…
MKP leader, Jacob Zuma. Constitutional law expert from the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac), Lawson Naidoo, says the dismissal by the Constitutional Court of the application brought by the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) and its leader, Jacob Zuma did not come as a surprise. They wanted to challenge President Cyril…
Former DA chief whip in Umngeni Muncipality, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu. Two more suspects have been arrested by the Political Killings Task Team in connection with murder of Nhlalayenza Ndlovu who was the DA Chief Whip in the Umngeni Muncipality. Ndlovu was gunned down at his home in Mpophomeni near Howick in KwaZulu-Natal in December 2023. …
[FILE IMAGE]: Kittens. Limpopo’s Agriculture department says three people have died from rabies in the Thohoyandou area in the past three months. Member of the Executive Council (MEC), Nakedi Kekana, has started a campaign to vaccinate dogs and cats in Sibasa and Thohoyandou in the Vhembe District. Kekana says they’ve already vaccinated 11,000 dogs and…
Minister Gwede Mantashe. Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe says South Africa should not be bullied into trading its critical minerals based on unfavorable terms and conditions. He says South Africa should not be apologetic for being a BRICS partner because it destabilizes the balance of forces and global leadership. He was delivering a…
Crime scene. The state has added another case to the ongoing trial linked to the killing of 18 people at Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape last year. The trial of the six accused has been adjourned until tomorrow by the Mthatha High Court Special Sitting in Lusikisiki Magistrate’s Court. The state has…
ANC flag. The ANC in the Free State says action will be taken in municipalities following damning revelations during an oversight visit by Parliament’s Portfolio Commitee on Cooperative Governance in the province last week. The committee has indicated that the province has the worst performing municipalities with no clean audits. The ANC’s Provincial Working Committee…
ActionSA President HermanMashaba and Deputy President MbahareKekana in Rustenburg to join councillors who will be laying criminal charges against the municipal manager for fraud and corruption. ActionSA President Herman Mashaba and the party’s councillors in Rustenburg Local Municipality, North West, have opened a fraud and corruption case against the Municipal Manager, Advocate Ashmar Khuduge. The…
