2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (586+ words) The upcoming local government elections must not be viewed merely as another routine political event but as a critical opportunity to rehabilitate our collapsing towns and cities while fortifying our democratic architecture. Across South Africa, many urban and rural centres…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (181+ words) Sowetan Immigration control: drones and bodycams to bolster borders Pressure on government to tighten immigration controls ramps up overhaul of border security planned for 2026-30, including repairs to damaged fencing and deteriorating roads The National Treasury is finalising a funding model…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (787+ words) There is a particular kind of political courage — or recklessness — in dragging your own party’s dirty laundry into a court of law where it can no longer be spun, softened or managed away in a closed national executive committee (NEC)…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (59+ words) WATCH LIVE | Inter-ministerial committee briefs media on migration Sowetan RECORDED | Interministerial committee briefs media on migration The interministerial committee (IMC) on migration is on Tuesday briefing the media to provide an update on the government’s approach to migration management. President Cyril…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (741+ words) In 1912, when the South African National Native Congress (SANNC) that would later become the ANC was formed, its secretary-general (SG) was acclaimed intellectual and journalist Sol Plaatje, a man whose works we still revert to across many academic disciplines. Since…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (390+ words) South African Football Association (Safa) presidential candidate Sandile Zungu says he is aware of what he called “dirty tricks” used by the faction backing incumbent president Danny Jordaan ahead of the election, where the two will go head-to-head. Safa holds…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (269+ words) Ntuli said details of the leak emerged during a multidisciplinary law enforcement operation at the Isithebe Industrial Zone in KwaSithebe, Mandeni, as part of the provincial government’s Engangeni Ngesango Iyafohla campaign. The operation, which comprises police as well as officials…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (782+ words) Looking at developments in South Africa’s political arena over the past few months is not merely alarming; it is a reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Our young democracy carries a history that is…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (803+ words) For much of South Africa’s democratic era, the ANC’s large electoral majorities made it easy to overlook the extent of its internal divisions. Arguments about power, policy and the direction of the country were a constant feature of its internal…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (688+ words) “Gift embodied everything a parent could ask God for in a child. He was respectful, intelligent, dedicated and full of life,” said Phindile Mota, the mother of Const Gift Mota. For Mota, those memories of her son are now intertwined…...