29 MPs have accused Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber of keeping an adviser from the organisation whose court win forced the department’s asylum directive. James Chapman, head of advocacy and legal adviser…
Category: Politics
FF Plus Takes Lamola US Dispute to GNU Clearing House
29 The Freedom Front Plus has taken a dispute over International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola’s handling of South Africa’s relationship with the United States to the Government of National Unity’s clearing house….
Siyathatha rally cancellation fuels speculation over Zuma’s worsening health
137 The cancellation of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s (MKP) Siyathatha Rally – where it was meant to launch its local government election manifesto – has fuelled fresh speculation that former president Jacob…
Cosatu refuses to be torn apart as they back both ANC and SACP, tasks new leaders on Mantashe
125 Cosatu has moved to kill talk of a split in the Tripartite Alliance, resolving to support both the ANC and the SACP in the upcoming local government elections, while giving its…
Animal health law gathers dust for 24 years amid FMD crisis
131 South Africa is battling foot-and-mouth disease using a 42-year-old law that Parliament’s agriculture committee chairperson says has serious operational gaps, while legislation intended to replace it has remained dormant for 24…
Emfuleni mayor Marco wants second term to fix roads, jobs and corruption
108 Emfuleni Executive Mayor Asan Marco says he wants a second stint to finish turning around one of the country’s worst-performing municipalities, with a plan anchored on fixing aging infrastructure, stimulating jobs…
Amakhosi excluded from laws governing 25 million rural people
109 An MK Party MP, Zwelakhe Elija Mthethwa has accused the Department of Agriculture of leaving traditional leaders out of consultations on two new laws that affect millions of people living on…
Farmland law stalls after agriculture dept runs out of money
95 The Department of Agriculture has admitted it ran out of money to finish the rules needed to bring South Africa’s new farmland protection law into force. Deputy director-general Dipepeneneng Serage told…
ANC won’t sacrifice stability for ideology in post-election coalition talks
111 Re-elected ANC Johannesburg Regional Secretary Sasabona Manganye says the party holds fundamental ideological differences with the DA, but it will not dismiss it as a potential coalition partner after the November…
Rich are turning farmland into houses, dept admits
99 The Department of Agriculture has admitted that wealthy landowners are converting South Africa’s farmland into housing developments, eating into the land available to produce food.Deputy director-general Dipepeneneng Serage told Parliament’s Portfolio…