463 Despite losing in court, Tshwane is pushing back against the decision to set aside its R194 monthly cleaning levy. The fight over the City of Tshwane’s cleaning levy is far from…
Category: Politics
SA, Lesotho police chiefs meet over reports of military land-grab plans by foreign nationals
402 Lesotho is a landlocked country inside South Africa; some believe much of the country’s land was lost to South Africa in the colonial period. A South African delegation made up of…
Motorists could become targets of aggressive revenue collection operations by JMPD, says DA
375 DA accuses the municipality of shifting its revenue collection duties onto JMPD officers. The DA in Gauteng has accused the City of Johannesburg of using Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers…
Mbalula accused of taking sides in Buffalo City leadership revolt
424 ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula is accused of defending Buffalo City metro mayor Princess Faku as councillors question her leadership. The ANC is to intervene in the strife-torn Buffalo City metro…
Ramokgopa dismisses claims US tariffs target BEE policy but admits it needs ‘tweaking’
555 Electricity minister said ‘South Africa is not being targeted and isolated as a country’. Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has denied allegations that the United States (US) imposed a 30%…
Leadership battle heats up in Limpopo
377 An early ANC Limpopo elective conference sparks debate over who will succeed Stan Mathabatha as provincial chairperson. The ANC in Limpopo will hold an early provincial elective conference in an endeavour…
ANC NEC meeting to discuss local government elections and GNU
402 The stability of the GNU will also be on the agenda at the NEC meeting. The ANC national executive committee (NEC) is scheduled to deliberate over the weekend on various issues,…
ActionSA reports Macpherson to parliament’s ethics committee for alleged ‘racist’ remarks
435 Macpherson denies claims and says ActionSA is trying to take attention away from the investigation into the IDT. ActionSA has reported Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson to the joint standing committee…
No interviews, but appointed: DA raises alarm over ANCYL members on Gauteng hospital boards
431 The DA says appointments to hospital boards should be seen as a public service and not a job. The DA’s Health shadow MEC for health in Gauteng, Jack Bloom, says 10…
ActionSA lays fraud charges against NW municipal manager
442 ActionSA has intensified its anticorruption campaign, targeting the Rustenburg local municipality over R335 million in alleged illegal contracts. ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has taken his anticorruption battle to Rustenburg as he…