New parties will have to number the numbers to play the 29 May election game
/ 2 March 2024

New parties will have to number the numbers to play the 29 May election game

The electoral commission’s decision will weed out the one-man-and-a-TikTok-account parties clogging up the ballot paper

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Malema’s tough decisions: Should he boot Shivambu from KZN?
/ 1 March 2024

Malema’s tough decisions: Should he boot Shivambu from KZN?

The EFF leader has said that the door was still open to collaboration with the DA and MK parties after the elections, but not with Ramaphosa

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Ramaphosa nominates Mandisa Maya for chief justice
/ 27 February 2024

Ramaphosa nominates Mandisa Maya for chief justice

The deputy chief justice is now likely to become the first woman to head the South African judiciary

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King wants control over Zulu land
/ 23 February 2024

King wants control over Zulu land

King MisuZulu ka Zwelithini wants chiefs to play a greater role in the Ingonyama Trust Board

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High court hands DA a humiliating defeat on cadre deployment
/ 23 February 2024

High court hands DA a humiliating defeat on cadre deployment

The opposition’s constitutional challenge on the ANC’s cadre deployment was spun out of conjecture and speculation, a full bench found

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Cadre records: Victory for DA, but no smoking gun yet
/ 23 February 2024

Cadre records: Victory for DA, but no smoking gun yet

ANC takes control of the cadre deployment narrative on the eve of its manifesto launch

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Treasury’s Pieterse: Transnet bailout ‘not inevitable’
/ 22 February 2024

Treasury’s Pieterse: Transnet bailout ‘not inevitable’

The 2024 budget is Duncan Pieterse’s first as director general. And he says the fiscal framework does not constitute a negotiating position

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DA calls for ANC top seven to be arrested for contempt of court
/ 18 February 2024

DA calls for ANC top seven to be arrested for contempt of court

A precedent has already been set by former president Jacob Zuma’s contempt of court order, opposition MP Siviwe Gwarube said

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Deliver the cadre deployment records by Monday or face prison — Steenhuisen warns ANC
/ 17 February 2024

Deliver the cadre deployment records by Monday or face prison — Steenhuisen warns ANC

The DA leader delivered the official opposition’s rescue plan for South Africa on Saturday, saying ‘we are in it to win it’

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Zuma’s MK party a threat to the ANC says party head of elections
/ 16 February 2024

Zuma’s MK party a threat to the ANC says party head of elections

The ruling party’s head of elections has said the ANC should be worried that members were moving to the new party while the IFP should also be concerned

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Editorial | ANC cannot forget that it serves us
/ 16 February 2024

Editorial | ANC cannot forget that it serves us

The mentality of denial and blame shifting has landed us where we are in 2024

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Ramaphosa shows appetite for uphill election battle in Sona debate
/ 15 February 2024

Ramaphosa shows appetite for uphill election battle in Sona debate

The president largely blamed the state of the country on the legacy of apartheid and the Zuma era but said the ANC was not finished yet

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DA opens corruption case against Deputy President Paul Mashatile
/ 13 February 2024

DA opens corruption case against Deputy President Paul Mashatile

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen said the allegations against Mashatile would have come to light had the president instituted lifestyle audits of his cabinet as promised

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Concourt denies ANC leave to appeal cadre deployment order
/ 12 February 2024

Concourt denies ANC leave to appeal cadre deployment order

The court’s decision means the ruling party remains compelled to hand over its deployment records to the Democratic Alliance

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Artisanal miners ‘brutalised’ in SANDF clampdown
/ 11 February 2024

Artisanal miners ‘brutalised’ in SANDF clampdown

Army clampdown has led to assaults and the property of legal miners being confiscated

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Pinky Pinky monster haunts Ramaphosa
/ 9 February 2024

Pinky Pinky monster haunts Ramaphosa

The figment of his imagination has defined the president’s timid tenure

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Sydney Mufamadi: Don’t be paranoid, be wary about talks of ‘regime change’
/ 9 February 2024

Sydney Mufamadi: Don’t be paranoid, be wary about talks of ‘regime change’

The State Security Agency said it had not picked up credible threats about election interference

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