242 A row broke out in Parliament’s defence committee on Friday after an ANC MP said MPs could not question President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to send soldiers into KwaZulu-Natal. ANC MP Tshilidzi…
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DSAC admits paying USIBA R1.5m with no invoices.
202 The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has admitted it handed CCIFSA another R1.5 million for the USIBA awards without a single invoice in hand. CCIFSA’s report on the first R10…
Water woes, jobs and party loyalty shape voters’ views ahead of elections
218 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…
DSAC has no idea what CCIFSA’s 2019 conference cost
201 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
210 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
200 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
192 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
217 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
184 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
174 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…