2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (696+ words) Free bus rides and a break from rising municipal rates. That is ActionSA’s big promise to Cape Town residents as the party fights for votes ahead of the 4 November local government elections. ActionSA mayoral candidate Dereleen James says the party…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (329+ words) Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Bantu Holomisa has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa, asking him to personally intervene in an ongoing shutdown in eNgcobo, Eastern Cape, that has brought schools, businesses and transport in the town to a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (615+ words) The 282 to 101 defeat of the EFF’s motion against Speaker Thoko Didiza shows the Government of National Unity is growing stronger, and South Africa now needs that stability to deliver real reform, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. The decisive defeat…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (446+ words) Endumeni: The Democratic Alliance has threatened KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli with legal action over the growing crisis at Endumeni Local Municipality. The party accuses Ntuli of failing to act after the northern KwaZulu-Natal municipality failed to pass its budget by…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (656+ words) South Africa has started putting President Cyril Ramaphosa’s tough migration plan into action, but fixing the country’s immigration problems will not happen quickly. That is the view of New South Institute senior research fellow Professor Alan Hirsch. Ramaphosa faced questions…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (192+ words) Hillcrest: Former Member of Parliament Dr Makhosi Khoza has described her Durban High Court victory against the City of eThekwini as a turning point for widows and vulnerable people silenced by corruption. Dr Khoza made the remarks after Judge Zaba…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (525+ words) The Mark Burke affair tests the DA’s most valuable political asset, its reputation for clean government, at the worst possible moment before November, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. The Democratic Alliance has built its election campaign around a simple…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (585+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent a tough warning to ANC mayors and councillors: fail your community and you could lose your job. Ramaphosa said the party would no longer protect public representatives who fail to deliver. He made the warning…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (500+ words) • Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma says criticism of the AfriForum meeting will not stop her movement from learning about programmes that could benefit poor communities. • March and March supporters gathered outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court to support Inkosi Langalibalele Mayor Mduduzi Sobholenyoni Myeza…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (525+ words) • Community activist Eugene Dooms says 22 people were killed in Westbury between July and August as rival gangs fight for control. • Gang violence has disrupted schools, with some learners missing lessons, assessments and preliminary exams because travelling through the area became…...