Gauteng Finance MEC Lebogang Maile delivers the province’s Budget Speech. 3 minutes The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has criticised the budget allocation for health saying it made no provision to pay off more than R4 billion owed to suppliers and fill staff vacancies. The Gauteng Health budget increased by 3,7% from R64,7 billion to…
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa with the SACP leadership. 1 minute The South African Community Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) have agreed to set up a joint alliance consensus mechanism to speed up their reconfiguration programme. This follows a meeting between party leaders in Johannesburg on Monday. The meeting was led by ANC president,…
Multi-billion rand Mahikeng Smart City development project 1 minute Some opposition parties in the North West’s provincial capital Mahikeng have expressed strong reservations amid a tug-of-war in the province over the multi-billion rand Mahikeng Smart City development. The Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements earlier called for an immediate halt to all mega and…
[File photo] 1 minute The battle for the heart and soul of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) – the now disbanded former military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) continues. This comes as the ANC has filed papers in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) after the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban ruled in favour…
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Bana Pele 2030 Early Childhood Development (ECD) Roadmap Leadership Summit held at the Atlas Studios in Milpark, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, March 17, 2025. 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa says discussions on the final approval of the national budget are still ongoing. He was speaking to the media on the sidelines…
ActionSA party members. 2 minutes The ActionSA says it is confident that its recently introduced Bill, which aims to reduce government waste by eliminating the lavish lifestyles of Cabinet members will gain support from different political parties. The Cut Cabinet Perks Bill comes in response to the Government of National Unity’s proposal for a VAT…
Expelled SA Ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool. 3 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is expecting a full report from expelled South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool. Rasool was expelled from the US on Saturday following remarks he made about the Trump administration during a webinar last week. He has been…
1 minute The ANC says it will hold its much anticipated bilateral meeting with the SACP at Luthuli House in Johannesburg later this morning. The two alliance partners are seeking to find each other, following the SACP’s conference resolution to go it alone in future elections. The communist party said its decision was necessitated by…
Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S. 1 minute COSATU in the Western Cape says one of the resolutions taken at its 6-th congress held at the weekend is to welcome Ebrahim Rasool back into the province. This follows the expulsion of Rasool as South Africa’s ambassador to the US. Provincial Secretary Malvern De…
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane speaking at a government event. 1 minute The Eastern Cape Provincial Government has announced the appointment of new Heads of Departments across several portfolios. As part of the new appointments, Sharon Marsdorp has been appointed as the new Education Head of Department, Bonginkosi Dayimani in Agriculture and Edmond Desmond Quinton…
