National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) says the office of National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza has confirmed receipt of their request for a motion of no confidence against President Cyril Ramaphosa. Didiza is said to be considering the request as this is latest submission but not the first. Since 2019, there…
Map of Free State province Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) says it has drawn a red line when it comes to the culture of impunity, corruption and irregularities at municipalities. The committee has grilled the 23 municipalities in the Free State as part of turning around poor governance and financial…
KZN Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka and the MEC for Health Nomagugu Simelane are under scrutiny over claims of irregularities, political interference and tender rigging within their departments. Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Thamsanqa Ntuli has written to them demanding comprehensive reports detailing relevant facts following claims of corruption against them. Hlomuka and Simelane…
NWU Medical School project The North West University (NWU) has defended the decision to name its medical school after the late struggle stalwart Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, instead of former Bophuthatswana homeland leader, Lucas Mangope. The construction of North West University’s Desmond Tutu school of medicine has started, at the institution’s Potchefstroom campus. — SABC News…
The mother of 11-year-old Jayden-Leek Meek has been charged with his murder at the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court. The Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in western Johannesburg will continue the bail hearing for the woman accused of killing her eleven-year-old son, Jayden-Lee Meek. Meek claims that she has been framed. Her lawyer, Noven Naidoo is expected to deliver…
One of Ithala Bank branches. The catastrophic consequences of the freezing of KwaZulu-Natal development finance company, Ithala, is of its own making. That’s been the argument of the Reserve Bank’s Prudential Authority, and the repayment administrator for Ithala, before a full bench in the Durban High Court. They are applying for leave to appeal a…
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke briefed the Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Portfolio Committee at Parliament in Cape Town on May 29, 2025. Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke has asked KwaZulu-Natal’s Cooperative Governance Department to intervene after the ANC-led Umkhanyakude District Municipality consistently failed to address material findings made by the AG. The municipality is said to have…
A home where four members from one family were killed during the mass murder in Lusikisiki. The trial of six men charged with the mass murder of 18 people at Ngobozana in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape is expected to start today. The suspects are facing 19 murder charges, including a Kwa Bhaca murder, as…
Deputy Minister Bantu Holomisa During his 70th birthday celebration in Johannesburg, Deputy Defense Minister Bantu Holomisa called on the current generation of young leaders in the country to come together irrespective of their political background to discuss how they can take the country forward. “We need to understand, unpack and upgrade some of the policies…
MMC Nomadlozi Nkosi addresses Vosloorus business owners at the Spaza Shop Support Roadshow. City of Ekurhuleni MMC for Developmental Planning and Real Estate, Nomadlozi Nkosi, has urged all spaza shop owners in the metro to reach out for assistance in becoming compliant. Nkosi hosted a roadshow in Vosloorus, on Gauteng’s East Rand, to promote the…
