125 Mokoena-Zondi allegedly demanded a portion of the salaries of the party’s parliamentary staff each month for them to remain in their positions. The MK party has suspended its chief whip, Mmabatho…
Category: Politics
Ramaphosa Warns Oil Crisis Could Threaten SA Economy as Opposition Rejects Budget Vote
153 President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the escalating conflict in the Middle East and the resulting global oil crisis threaten to undermine South Africa’s fragile economic recovery, increase the cost of…
ANC ousts Madibeng Mayor Douglas Maimane with immediate effect
129 Maimane escaped the axe last month. The ANC has recalled Douglas Seleke Maimane as executive mayor and PR Councillor of the Madibeng Local Municipality with immediate effect, after he escaped the…
MK Party Suspends Chief Whip Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi Over Corruption Allegations
149 A fresh controversy has erupted within the MK Party after the organisation suspended one of its senior leaders over allegations of corruption. The decision was announced following a meeting between party…
ActionSA Criticises Magashule Gana Appointment as Phala Phala Impeachment Chair
142 Newly elected Section 89 impeachment committee chairperson Magashule Gana faces an immediate test of his independence .This after ActionSA criticised his election , arguing that Parliament’s inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa’s…
McKenzie Fires Back at Liam Jacobs’ Return to DA: “Neither Party Will Fully Trust Him”
116 Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader and Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie fired back on Liam Jacobs’s return to the Democratic Alliance (DA), declaring that neither his former party nor the…
‘Internal conflict’ at the centre of Liam Jacobs leaving the PA
128 Liam Jacobs says he is not a flip-flopper for returning to the DA. Questions have been raised about whether there is more to Liam Jacobs’ resignation from the PA, with an…
Mayor’s resignation: Was ANC scared into action after DA win in Emfuleni?
127 ‘But let us be clear: Radebe was not removed for service delivery failures. He was removed for losing a ward to the DA,’ Mthembu said. The ANC has been accused of…
‘Leave the PA out of your mouth’: McKenzie warns Jacobs after his DA comeback
120 McKenzie expressed disappointment but kept a soft spot for Jacobs, warning him not to lie about PA. PA leader Gayton McKenzie says he wishes former member Liam Jacobs well as he…
Left-wing conference calls for nationalisation and constitutional overhaul
115 In a move likely to spark confrontation with the ANC, the conference insisted that working-class power must lead the struggle for popular power in SA. South Africa’s first Conference of the…