Politics

[File]The City of Tshwane susbtation The City of Tshwane has begun implementing measures to stabilise its electricity infrastructure following years of underinvestment.   Executive Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya says they have begun rebuilding technical capacity after years of under-financing and repeated infrastructure failures that have affected residents and businesses.   She says dozens of vacancies in the electricity department have already…

Confiscated unlicensed firearms. Security analyst Professor Jacob Mofokeng says testimony at the Madlanga Commission has exposed deep structural problems in the SAPS forensic lab. A senior forensic analyst from the police, Captain Laurance Makgotloe told the commission earlier Monday that inaccuracies in the ballistic report he authored in the Armand Swart murder case were errors…

The Ad Hoc Committee established to investigate allegations made by the SAPS KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, is scheduled to hear from four witnesses at its public hearings on Tuesday. LIVE STREAM:

President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Cyril Ramaphosa could still be asked to appear before Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee, investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system, to account before lawmakers on the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT). Committee chair Soviet Lekganyane says the President’s name, along with senior…

The Department of Human Settlements hosts a two-day Presidential Summit on Innovative Building Technologies at Nasrec, Johannesburg. The event aims to advance and showcase innovative, sustainable, climate-resilient and scalable construction solutions that support dignified housing and the eradication of informal settlements and mud houses. LIVE STREAM:

[FILE] IEC voting station Polls opened in two by-elections taking place on Tuesday across parts of the Western Cape.   In the Cederberg area, voting stations have been set up in Ward 12; at Graafwater at the Graafwater Special School; at in Elands Bay at the community hall on Main Road and at the Sandberg…

The Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, also known as the Madlanga Commission, enters Day 52. LIVE STREAM:

Ballistic expert Captain Laurence Makgotloe. Ballistic expert Captain Laurence Makgotloe has accused an investigating officer (IO) in the Armand Swart murder case of kidnapping, in his testimony before the Madlanga Commission. The officer earlier testified before the commission as Witness B. Makgotloe says Witness B wanted him to make a correction on the Swart forensic…

President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his sadness at the passing of the last surviving signatory of the Freedom Charter and Accused No 4 in the 1956 Treason Trial, Leon Levy.  The 96-year-old member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and the Communist Party of South Africa, died in Cape Town…

Captain Laurance Makgotloe at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria on February 02, 2026 A ballistic expert who analysed cartridges in the Armand Swart murder case in Vereeniging in 2024 has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that no AK47 cartridges were found at the location.    This is despite preliminary evidence suggesting that an AK-47 assault…