Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa won endorsement from most African National Congress branches to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ruling party leader, giving him an edge — but not a guarantee of victory — in this month’s election. Ramaphosa was nominated for the presidency of the ANC by 1,862 branches, while[…]
State capture casts a pall over the Democratic Alliance’s dim assessment of President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet for 2017. In what has become a yearly ritual, the DA presented their report card – “an appraisal of the ANC national government’s performance over the past year” – at the Union[…]
A church near the Parliamentary precinct made its opposition to the government’s nuclear plans visible when it unfurled a big yellow banner on Sunday. “New-Clear Power NOT Nuclear,” read the banner hung on the wall of the Central Methodist Mission church in Cape Town’s Green Market Square. The banner was[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has dismissed false information doing the rounds targeting social grant recipients. Sassa said in a statement on Monday that it was not true that its offices will be closed during the month of December and that beneficiaries will not receive their January payments.[…]
While Capetonians have been urged to reduce their water usage to below 87 litres per person daily, three households on average, exceeded 1 000 litres per day. This was revealed by City of Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille on Sunday, who said the properties – two in Pinelands and[…]
A photographer is heading to court, claiming R20-million from government for the unauthorised use of a decades-old photograph he took of late former president Nelson Mandela. Photographer Shaun Earl Harris accuses the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) of copyright infringement saying he has “once again come out to the[…]
The SACP wants those implicated in the Gupta email leaks and Parliamentary hearings to be criminally prosecuted. The party is also calling for the axing of incompetent government ministers. SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, briefed the media on the outcomes of the party’s Central Committee meeting on Sunday. He said[…]
With the help of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a motion of no confidence against City of Johannesburg executive mayor, Herman Mashaba, and council speaker, Vasco da Gama, failed on Thursday night. During Da Gama’s motion, which was heard at around 19:00, there were 140 councillors who voted against the motion[…]
Controversial former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza will on Friday hold the founding conference of her new political party. According to a statement, “The new party is born out of a merger of several political entities and civil society organisations that seek to bring about change to South Africa’s body politic[…]
Young women aged between 15 and 24 still make up the group with the highest number of HIV infections in South Africa, where seven million people have the disease. Friday, December 1 marks World Aids Day and this year it is being observed under the theme “The Right to Health”.[…]
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