President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile chaired the first cabinet meeting under the Government of National Unity (GNU) on July 9, 2024. Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa says political parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU) that also govern in local government have agreed to do away with cadre…
Gun and bullets. An eleven-year-old boy has been shot dead, allegedly by a 14-year-old, in Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape. The gun is believed to belong to the older boy’s father. Police spokesperson Welile Matyolo says officers found the younger boy already dead when they arrived at the scene of the shooting. Matyolo says the father of…
Picture shows court gavel The Mpumalanga High Court sitting in Middelburg is expected to sentence a farm owner, his son and six farmworkers on Thursday. They assaulted and killed two men at the Pampoenskraal farm in Mkhondo in Mpumalanga in 2020. The farm owner, Werner Potgieter, his son Cornelius Greyling and the farmworkers forced Sthembiso Thwala, Sifiso Thwala and…
CoGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa says consultations are under way with the Electoral Commission on choosing the date for the 2026 local government elections. The current term will expire on the 1st of November 2026. Politicians would become Father Xmas if elections held in Jan:Hlabisa Hlabisa says the elections must therefore be held between 2 November 2026 and 30 January 2027. He says…
A company director has been sentenced by the Kagiso Regional court to six years imprisonment suspended for two years for tax fraud involving three point six million rand. A company director has been sentenced by the Kagiso Regional court to six years imprisonment suspended for two years for tax fraud involving three point six million…
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. The African National Congress (ANC) says it has no plans to replace Dada Morero with Loyiso Masuku as Johannesburg mayor. This follows Masuku’s recent election as the new ANC Greater Johannesburg regional chairperson, defeating the incumbent Morero in an internal party vote. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says being a chairperson of…
Head of IDAC Advocate Andrea Johnson The Advisory Panel tasked with interviewing six candidates vying for the top job of NPA head has revealed that it received 281 public comments on the candidates. Of those 281 comments, 209 were solely dedicated to one of the candidates, current IDAC (Investigating Directorate) Head, Advocate Andrea Johnson. Of the 209…
A police officer seen outside a voting station The Electoral Commission (IEC) is expecting over 4 400 municipal wards that will participate in the next Local Government Elections (LGE). This comes after the Municipal Demarcation Board officially handed over the final electoral wards to the IEC, for the 2026/27 local elections, and this paves the…
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says two employees in her department have been suspended after being linked to the leak of seven papers in the 2025 National Senior Certificate examinations. She says the Gauteng Basic Education Department alerted her office to unusual similarities in candidates’ scripts during the marking process. Addressing the media in Parliament, Gwarube says, “Based on the interviews…
The SACP flag. Tensions between the African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), are raising concerns about a growing contestation over the ownership and interpretation of key ideological frameworks within the tripartite alliance. Political commentator Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya believes the SACP should ideally remain central in discussions on the…
