Professor Firoz Cachalia officially sworn in as acting police minister at the Union Buildings in Pretoria today. DA’s Spokesperson on Police, Ian Cameron, says they have identified critical areas of expectation for the new acting Police Minister, Professor Firoz Cachalia. Cachalia was officially sworn in at the Union Buildings in Pretoria earlier today….
[FILE IMAGE]: Police Minister Senzo Mchunu during a media briefing. Advocate Dali Mpofu has argued that it was illegal for President Cyril Ramaphosa to have put Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on special leave and appoint Professor Firoz Cachalia to act in his position. Ramaphosa announced Mchunu’s special leave earlier this month in response to allegations…
Badge of the South African Police Service. President Cyril Ramaphosa will facilitate the swearing in of Professor Firoz Cachalia as acting police minister this morning. The ceremony will take place at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Ramaphosa appointed Cachalia after placing Senzo Mchunu on special leave. The move followed KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegation that senior police officials, including Mchunu, are corrupt and…
Members of the ANC NEC attend a meeting with the party’s Provincial Working Committee in the Western Cape on 20 July 2025. The African National Congress (ANC) will hold its much anticipated National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Ormonde, south of Johannesburg this morning. The four-day meeting which ends on Monday comes in the wake of the suspension…
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. …
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…
[FILE IMAGE]: Judge President Dunstan Mlambo. President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Justice Dunstan Mlambo as Deputy Chief Justice. The Presidency confirmed this in a statement on Thursday afternoon. The appointment comes into effect from Friday, 1 August 2025. Judge Mlambo has since November 2012 served as Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High…
[FILE IMAGE]: Deputy President Paul Mashatile hosts Roundtable on Political and Administrative Interface. Parliament’s Ethics Committee has found Deputy President Paul Mashatile guilty of failing to declare a diamond gift from criminally accused businessman, Louis Liebenberg. Mashatile has been fined R10,000. The Ethics Committee has also resolved that Mashatile be reprimanded in the National Assembly….
