ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula has confirmed that Ebrahim Patel becoming a member of parliament will make way for a non-MP to become a cabinet minister
DD the Cat, like André de Donker, has finally got his Don’t Come Monday – which both of them had been waiting for
The announcement comes just hours after deputy president David Mabuza resigns from parliament
He tendered his resignation as deputy president and member of parliament to National Assembly speaker Mapisa-Nqakula on Tuesday
The ANC’s national working committee was unilateral in committing to use all its resources to hire the best legal minds to challenge De Ruyter
EFF leader Julius Malema has called for South Africans to join the party during its national shutdown aimed at unseating President Cyril Ramaphosa
The president has asked Eastern Cape ANC chair Oscar Mabuyane to add Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to the province’s parliamentary list
A new book argues that this is not the South Africa women fought for
The meeting will take place on Monday night on the energy state of disaster as as anticipation builds over a cabinet reshuffle
As a country, our struggling economy is hitched to both the prospects of the East and the West. Being frozen out by any of them, would be punishing for all
DA calls former Eskom chief executive De Ruyter ‘brave’, thanks him for his service
The newly elected ANC Free State chairperson is expected to make a complete overhaul in his cabinet in the coming weeks
Power utility says the high court challenge to the increase is flawed in law, and could mean more load-shedding, or worse, a credit default
The move comes after the new Free State executive committee decided to restructure the provincial government following meetings with top ANC officials
Current chairperson hopes to take over from Nqaba Bhanga when the DA elects provincial leaders – and to deliver an upset in the 2024 election
Illegal land occupation and alleged corruption plague the city’s unstable administrations
The party believes it has been able to ‘self-correct’ after alienating white voters in the previous national and provincial elections
An internal report implicates Maimane as the mastermind in a plan to rid the party of its white leaders, thereby alienating white voters
Governing party says it agreed on the reconfiguration of the municipal committees to sharpen and strengthen its service delivery machinery
Cape Town mayor says his party must do all it can to thwart ANC-EFF coalition efforts as the latter will destroy South Africa if in power
DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink
The president tells party leaders that the new electricity minister will also be a project manager for Medupi and Kusile power stations
The question over dismissing the Ngcobo report was whether MPs had a primary duty to hold the president to account or be accountable to voters
Embattled mayor had been under pressure over the city’s adverse audit opinion in 2021-2022
The opposition, insatiably desperate for attention, are as much to blame for our faulty system as those who drive it
The presidency has described the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to challenge the declaration of a national state of disaster over Eskom as “confusing” given that the party had been asking the president to do so since last year. DA leader John Steenhuisen confirmed on Friday that the party had already briefed its legal […]
ANC leaders were caught off guard and left reeling when the president made the announcement, with allies calling for him to explain his actions
This is the country in which falling in love may be a death sentence and romance is being stabbed to death, remains dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase to be left on the street
In a hint of what will come in his cabinet reshuffle, the president sidelined Mantashe with plan to appoint energy minister in the presidency
With the country’s economy on the brink, the president assured the nation that ending load-shedding is his government’s top priority
Political parties and NGOs will be taking Nersa and Eskom to court for granting the utility an 18.65% tariff hike
A critical lesson in the ANC’s near 30-year rule is that we should find policy measures to shield the state and its functioning from the turbulence that factionalism breathes