183 As political parties ramp up campaigns ahead of Wednesday’s local government elections, voters in different parts of Hammanskraal, where service delivery has collapsed, are weighing basic service failures, jobs and long-held…
Category: Politics
DSAC has no idea what CCIFSA’s 2019 conference cost
179 The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture ran the process that led to CCIFSA’s 2019 elective conference in Mpumalanga. Now it cannot say how much it spent. The money was never…
Electoral Court dismisses DA challenge to party lists
180 The Electoral Court has dismissed the DA’s legal challenge against ActionSA, the EFF, GOOD Party and the MK Party over their submission of single-name proportional representation (PR) candidate lists for the…
Mashaba to question Soweto housing allocations
180 ActionSA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba will on Saturday ,31 October visit Soweto to engage residents who have been waiting for housing allocations following the recent handover of 300 housing units…
Ex-MK Party SG claims millions transferred to entity of Dudu Myeni’s son
154 Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party secretary-general Sibonelo Nomvalo has alleged that at least R3 million was transferred monthly from the party’s organisational accounts into business bank accounts allegedly belonging to a…
O’Sullivan threatens legal action over Mkhwanazi appointment
183 Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has vowed to approach the courts urgently to stop KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi from being appointed as the next national head of the Hawks. O’Sullivan…
Board burns millions as ETDP SETA runs headless with no CEO, no COO
162 The ETDP SETA has no CEO. It has no COO. Yet its board continues to sit, spend and approve millions while the entity slides into a full-blown governance crisis flagged by…
Rare parliamentary unity as MPs condemn March and March
147 Political parties represented on Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence united on Friday, 30 October 2026 in condemning March and March and the xenophobic violence in KwaZulu-Natal, even as they differed…
‘We don’t have all the tools’: SANDF general grilled over KZN troops
175 The general overseeing the South African National Defence Force’s KwaZulu-Natal deployment has admitted that the military does not have all the equipment it needs. He also could not give Parliament a…
R18m becomes R34m: Defence fails to explain KZN deployment bill
140 The Defence department could not explain to Parliament how the cost of sending 510 soldiers to KwaZulu-Natal jumped from R18.5 million to R34 million on the morning of the briefing. Lieutenant…