183 South Africa’s biggest trade union is in open revolt. A rebel faction of its Central Committee says it has moved against General Secretary Irvin Jim, accusing him of violating the constitution,…
Category: Politics
How Prime Evil built Vlakplaas’s askari killing machine to hunt MK comrades
150 For 20 years in C-Max, Eugene de Kock says he waited for someone to ask him who gave the orders. At the Khampepe Commission this week, he finally started naming how…
Groenewald to lodge JSC complaint over two minute ruling.
216 Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald plans to lodge a complaint with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against a judge who allegedly decided a case involving his department in two minutes. His…
De Kock says Nel and Ackerman buried apartheid murder cases
159 Apartheid’s most notorious killer says he knows everything about who gave the orders – and claims the country’s top prosecutors deliberately refused to hear it. Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock,…
Brothers Face Off in Cape Town Ward 56 Election
190 Cape Town’s Ward 56 is set for an unusual election battle, with two brothers representing rival political parties competing for the same council seat. According to News24, Patriotic Alliance councillor Cheslyn…
AG: DCS never disputed submitting falsified documents
185 The Auditor-General says the Department of Correctional Services never denied that it handed auditors falsified documents, even while it fought the disclaimer. “The department has not in any of its submissions…
SACP’s Malebana: We will put people before profit in Polokwane
186 SACP mayoral candidate Chuene Malebana says Polokwane Municipality has been turned into a “spaza shop for comrades” and he is gunning to shut down the tender machine and put people before…
BOSA Tshwane candidate Moshiga vows to fix 1000 potholes in 100 days
243 Build One South Africa’s (BOSA) Tshwane mayoral candidate, Martha Moshiga, has drawn a line in the sand, promising to fix 1,000 potholes in her first 100 days in office if elected,…
Zuma wields axe again as MK Party fires SG days before manifesto launch
183 Jacob Zuma has done it again! Less than two weeks before South Africans head to the polls for the local government elections, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party has fired its secretary-general –…
Ramaphosa cracks whip on failing councils, unveils sweeping overhaul
187 President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a hard line on failing municipalities, warning that persistent collapse in service delivery can no longer be tolerated and announcing far-reaching reforms that will strip non-performing…