2 minutes City of Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says there is insufficient evidence at this stage to justify the removal of councillors, JP Smith and Xanthea Limberg, from the Mayoral Committee following a meeting with police on Wednesday. Smith is the Mayco member for Safety and Security as well as the deputy Federal Chairperson…
Free State Human Settlements HOD Mosa Masimene during a briefing. 2 minutes Free State Head of Department (HOD) for Public Works and Infrastructure, Mosa Masimene, has responded to allegations that she protected Khaya Radebe, the Director of Supply Chain Management, who is accused of misconduct involving R17 million. The allegations arose after the Premier’s office…
2 minutes Members of Parliament’s Land Reform Committee have expressed disappointment over the postponement of their planned meeting with King Misuzulu kaZwelithini. The meeting was set to address the fallout between the king and the Ingonyama Trust board. The situation between the Zulu monarch and the Ingonyama Trust Board is said to have reached a…
SANDF soldiers patrolling 2 minutes EFF MP Carl Niehaus has criticised Defence Minister Angie Motshekga for cancelling a scheduled meeting with Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans. The postponement was announced by the committee’s chairperson, Dakota Legoete. Niehaus, a member of the committee, accused Motshekga of neglecting the SANDF’s operational readiness, particularly for…
Cabinet Lekgotla 2024. 1 minute Job creation, sustainable energy, reviving the economy, and the recent killing of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are set to top the agenda at the first Cabinet Lekgotla of the year, starting in Pretoria this afternoon. The two-day meeting comes amid…
The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula briefs the media in Johannesburg on January 28, 2025 on the outcomes of the party’s National Lekgotla. 1 minute The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party has resolved to prioritise educational campaigns that promote safe sexual practices and health literacy. This is in…
3 minutes Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says the US’ move to temporarily cease its funding of HIV and AIDS prorgrammes around the world, under the new Trump administration, will have a limited impact on South Africa’s fight against the disease. Motsoaledi was speaking to journalists at the Cabinet Lekgotla in Pretoria. He says the South…
ANC NEC members brief the media on the outcomes of the ANC NEC Lekgotla 2 minutes African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says that the country’s biggest party is unapologetic about the transformative legislation that it has passed. Speaking following the ANC National Lekgotla, Mbalula says that the meeting urged that government ensure there…
File image: Former Johannesburg Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda. 2 minutes Former Johannesburg Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda maintains his innocence, saying the fraud charges against him are malicious and political. Gwamanda stands accused of defrauding some Soweto residents in an alleged funeral policy scheme that ran between 2011 and 2012 through his then-company Ithemba lama Afrika. He appeared…
Vacant piece of land. 2 minutes Alternative policy proposals to fast-track land reform are amongst some of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) offerings to the discussions at the two-day Cabinet Lekgotla starting today. The PAC is one of 10 political parties that are part of the Government of National Unity (GNU). These parties will hold…
