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   (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, 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (220+ words) When King Mswati III’s praise singer began chanting in Durban, the room changed, heads of state stood, protocol took over, and Africa arrived in full, writes Celani Sikhakhane in Royal Mzansi. King Mswati III of Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarch,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (273+ words) Listen to this article. President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the 46th Southern African Development Community Summit in Durban on Monday by telling regional leaders South Africa regrets the mass departure of African migrants that followed months of anti-immigrant pressure, while an anti-immigration…...