File: Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni addresses a Post Cabinet Media Briefing in Hatfield, Pretoria on May 15, 2025. Trade union Solidarity is taking Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, to court over alleged defamation. This, after she claimed that Solidarity and its sister organisation, AfriForum, led misinformation campaigns against South Africa. This follows…
FILE | President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the National Assembly. President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday afternoon appear before the National Assembly to answer oral questions. The oral question and answer sessions with him are scheduled at least once a quarter. The questions include South Africa’s engagements with the United States on reducing tariffs. Ramaphosa will…
PAC President Mzwanele Nyhontso The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) has welcomed Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi’s approval of an inquest into the deaths of five children killed by the apartheid army in 1993. The children, aged between 12 and 17, were gunned down at the Mthatha home of PAC activist Sigqibo Mpendulo. They were…
Jackie Macie called on all party members to unite. Mpumalanga Community Safety, Security and Liaison MEC Jackie Macie has been re-elected as African National Congress (ANC) chairperson of the eHlazeni Region. The region’s elective conference which started on Saturday amid disputes, concluded on Monday at the Nutting House Lodge in Mbombela. Delegates from 99 out…
The commission announced that its first public hearings would start on September 17. The hearings, which were originally scheduled to start on the first of this month, were postponed due to delays in securing essential ICT infrastructure. Live|
Court building The High Court in Pretoria sitting at the Benoni Magistrate’s Court has postponed the Caiphus Nyoka murder case to November for closing arguments. Leon Louis van den Berg, Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht and Pieter Egbert Stander are accused of killing Nyoka, while he was asleep at his family home in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni in August…
Former Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry will give an update on its progress in a media briefing in Pretoria on Monday. Last week, the commission announced that its first public hearings would start on September 17. The hearings, which were originally scheduled to start on the first of this…
President Cyril Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa says the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC) has recommended the establishment of an anti-corruption body. NACAC has handed over its final report at the conclusion of its three-year term. In the President’s weekly letter, Ramaphosa states that the report includes a recommendation to establish a permanent, independent, overarching anti-corruption…
President Cyril Ramaphosa appears before the National Assembly for an oral question-and-answer session October 17, 2024. Parliament is back in full swing this week, after its winter constituency period. On Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa will answer oral questions in the National Assembly. Ministers from the economic cluster will follow suit on Wednesday. There are several…
The Democratic Alliance party flag can be seen in the above illustration. The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality has called on Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae to urgently intervene in the dire state of schools in the municipality. This follows an oversight visit by the DA’s National Council of Province member and…
