141 Retired SAPS Colonel Louis Bester has refuted claims that he pushed for former President Thabo Mbeki and other senior ANC leaders to be prosecuted for apartheid-era crimes, telling the Khampepe Commission…
Category: Politics
IEC launches Results Operation Centre, promises system ready for local polls
155 The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) launched its national Results Operation Centre (ROC) on Wednesday, promising that its election dashboard is ready and that lessons from the 2024 glitch that…
AG warns of public safety risk as parole violators are released again
178 Offenders who absconded, failed to report or did not start community service were released on parole again by Correctional Services, the Auditor-General has told Parliament. Omphemetse Setebe, senior manager at the…
Meyer says single party rule is over in startling revelations from his new memoir
210 South Africa has closed the chapter on one-party government for good. That was the stark message from Roelf Meyer, South Africa’s new ambassador to Washington, as he launched his political memoir…
Ramaphosa ally Bejani Chauke hauled before Madlanga Commission over taxi boss chats
228 President Cyril Ramaphosa’s inner circle has been dragged into the Madlanga Commission’s explosive probe. His close confidante and ANC National Executive Committee member Bejani Chauke has been hauled to explain his…
Mbalula enters malema and Mysol cat fight as row over mines turns personal
145 A political fist-fight over who controls the mines has forced ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula to pick up the phone. Mbalula says he will contact EFF leader Julius Malema to defuse a…
Khampepe commission seeks six-month extension to trace missing dockets and hear Zuma
155 The inquiry into who buried justice for apartheid’s victims has itself hit a wall – and now needs up to six more months to dig itself out. The Khampepe Commission of…
Meyer warns SA not special victim as US bullies canada too, says forget g20 snub
174 Veteran negotiator Roelf Meyer says South Africa should stop treating its bruising fight with Washington as a unique humiliation and stop obsessing over America’s threatened boycott of the G20 Leaders’ Summit…
Parliament shuts down DSAC meeting as top leaders stay away
163 Parliament’s oversight meeting on the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture collapsed on Tuesday, 27 October after the department’s top leadership failed to show up to answer for a damning set…
NUMSA faction moves to remove Irvin Jim, citing luxury cars, property and contempt of court
223 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,…