Rebuilding is crucial, but democracies cannot allow themselves to be held to ransom by the destruction of anarchists in dictating where public funds should be spent
The violence comes in the wake of protests last Friday when Zuma’s supporters went on the streets in KZN
A partnership with chiefs, NGOs and businesses is helping Matatiele’s small-scale farmers adopt conservation practices and so turn a profit
A recorded rant from ward 26 councillor Nozinzle Zaba in the Mnquma municipality has provincial secretary scrambling for assurances
The Hawks and the NPA want to boost forensic investigative capacity to get back more money lost to corruption
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu denies she knew fraud-accused Edwin Sodi’s company won ‘Covid’ housing tenders
The Matatiele municipality has attempted to justify why it pays a full salary to an ANC councillor convicted of raping a party volunteer
Seventeen investigative reports, undertaken by Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s office, detail gross negligence and maladministration in government structures
The brutal murder of an Eastern Cape ANC member puts political killings in the province, and in the country, into sharp focus just before the local government elections
Last month, the department of agriculture issued a notice saying that the slaughter and dressing of game meat at any place other than an abattoir was prohibited, and that those not complying could be fined or imprisoned
There is hidden potential for small hydropower plants in South Africa
The Lower South Coast region has complained of a plot by some branch secretaries to manipulate the system
Adding to the municipality’s legal costs is a pending case between it and Eskom. The municipality owes the national power utility more than R7-million and, after agreeing to pay R5-million, failed to honour it.
National treasury and SIU flag gross misconduct in minister’s department with no heads rolling as millions keep disappearing
Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines
From harbouring sexual offenders, settling a near R4-million claim, to an investigation into maladministration, fraud and corruption; this is the Dr Beyers Naudé local municipality in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape.
Provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi lambasts councillors for being interested in serving residents or remaining in the ANC
‘You get people at national level who openly defy the decisions of the NEC, even taking the ANC to court … What is that?’ – Thabo Mbeki
Hundreds of millions meant for much-needed housing development remains unaccounted for
The family of a drowned schoolgirl says NGO Equal Education must explain why it allowed learners to swim at a dangerous beach
with no lifeguards
Ability must determine who gets hired, not jobs for pals or because of their political affiliation, says the head of the South African Local Government Association
ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe, who criticised Ace Magashule and Supra Mahumapelo during an interview, said those party leaders who want the NEC to reverse its step-aside resolution used a ‘convenient blackmail argument’
It’s no good complaining about your child’s school if you don’t participate in the school governing body elections
Outraged provincial secretaries called for a meeting with Luthuli
House after the ANC secretary general broadened the NEC’s step-aside resolution
Global warming may force changes in some South African outdoor initiation ceremonies, as record heat poses risks for the summer season
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s allies are gearing up to move against ANC secretary general Ace Magashule in crucial meeting
After a slew of corruption scandals, Ntuthu has been removed from his powerful position on the Eastern Cape PEC and his regional secretary role
Lulama Ngcukayitobi warns that the RET group is not a faction, suggesting it has ‘grown into a formidable organisation that will contest the ANC’
A sharp increase in the number of social grant recipients after the introduction of the special grant during the pandemic has exacerbated the strained grant payment system
Somododa Fikeni tells Nicolene de Wee about his new portfolio, his days as a herd boy in the Eastern Cape and being homeless for three weeks in the US
The ambiguity between traditional and constitutional leadership has been exposed by the violent banishment of an Eastern Cape family
There have been plenty of complaints about Port Elizabeth’s name change to Gqeberha, but citizens should be more active in speaking up during consultation processes