147 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has warned failing municipalities to fix their finances or lose funding as government enforces payment discipline and ends fiscal bailouts that deliver no results. Tabling the Medium-Term…
Category: Politics
DA-ActionSA war erupts over Joburg coalitions as Zille attacked for arrogance
166 The opposition battle for Johannesburg has exploded into open war, with DA mayoral candidate Helen Zille warning that divided opposition votes will keep the ANC in power after 4 November 2026,…
Parties mixed on Godongwana’s mid-term budget as fuel relief fails to cool anger over growth, jobs
238 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) has split political parties and labour, with temporary fuel levy relief welcomed but dismissed as too little to fix unemployment, weak growth…
Godongwana defends R516m for Madlanga and Khampepe commissions as cost of confronting corruption
138 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has defended a R516 million allocation for the Madlanga, Khampepe and Nkabinde commissions of inquiry, framing the expenditure as unavoidable and essential to restoring integrity in South…
Mabandla denies ordering NPA to shelve TRC cases, cites Selebi-Pikoli fallout
141 Former Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla has told the Khampepe Commission she never ordered the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to put apartheid-era cases on ice, pushing back against claims of political interference…
Maotwe affidavit: Tshwane mayor, manager face SAPS probe over Bronk water scandal
155 EFF MP Omphile Maotwe has filed a sworn affidavit asking the South African Police Service to investigate Tshwane Executive Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya and City Manager Johann Mettler over the Bronkhorstspruit…
Treasury’s big test and what Wednesday’s MTBPS will reveal for the poor
160 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces his toughest Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement yet on Wednesday, as South Africans buckling under fuel shocks, joblessness and a relentless cost-of-living crisis look to Treasury for…
Mnguni: Rise Mzansi will stop government thieves”and clean up Joburg’s criminal rot
211 RISE Mzansi Johannesburg mayoral candidate Lukhona Mguni has laid out a hardline anti-crime and anti-corruption agenda for South Africa’s economic capital, declaring that his administration would purge criminals embedded in City…
Ramaphosa to lead virtual extraordinary SADC Heads of State Summit Wednesday
155 President Cyril Ramaphosa will open and chair a Virtual Extraordinary Summit of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government on Wednesday, from Cape Town, the Presidency has announced….
ActionSA hits back in Tshwane water war of words over Bronkhorstspruit saga
192 Tshwane’s Bronkhorstspruit water crisis has sparked a war of words inside the city’s coalition government, with ActionSA hitting back at both the DA and the EFF over their handling of the…