The ANC, IFP and DA managed to retain their wards
Will the official opposition consider doing business with the ANC after the 2024 elections?
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Brink called for cooperation between parties, characterising the past weeks at the Tshwane council as unfortunate
Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals
The majority had made a decision and that was how democracy worked, the deputy president told the National Assembly
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There’s a dangerous romanticism to the struggle that we shouldn’t allow opportunists to exploit, despite our disappointment with a government that is battling to meet the most basic service needs of its people
Police said that by 10pm on Monday night, at least 550 protestors had been arrested and 24 300 tyres were confiscated
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MPs must find a way to handle André de Ruyter’s allegations and a protected disclosure accusing Pravin Gordhan of wrongdoing in the SAA sale
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Julius Malema has touted the shutdown as the start of a ‘revolution’
Security companies, community policing forums and the police have drawn up contingency plans to stop looting and public violenc
The stayaway will test the party’s leadership, machinery and ability to mobilise its supporters on the streets and in the election booths
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The police service has said the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure is ready to deal with any criminality on 20 March
The South African National Taxi Council says its members can decide if they want to take part in the national shutdown planned for 20 March
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
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EFF leader Julius Malema has called for South Africans to join the party during its national shutdown aimed at unseating President Cyril Ramaphosa
Our uncle in the load-shedding business sits on his couch and faces zero accountability
Illegal land occupation and alleged corruption plague the city’s unstable administrations
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Although the city seems to be stabilising politically, it is heading for an uncertain financial future
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 EFF demanded the mayorship of uMhlathuze in return for giving the IFP the mayorship of Mogale City as part of a multiple party agreement with the ANC
The EFF leader has said that they should “vote with their conscience” and not according to the caucus instructions
A panel has found that the president has a case to answer for receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it
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A panel has found prima facie evidence that the president broke the law in receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it
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Parliament has agreed to an extension for the report by the Ngcobo panel on whether Cyril Ramaphosa should
face impeachment
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The commission says recent comments by Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and party banners constituted incitement of violence and hate speech
About 50% of South Africans say they would relinquish their voting rights if an effective government was guaranteed
The president says the entity needs to up its revenue collection from government departments and municipalities
The Patriotic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters ditch the Democratic Alliance during the election of council chairpersons
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Advocate Nazreen Bawa said the calls for her to step aside were spurious and based on false allegations made by Barnabas Xulu, the some time attorney of Judge John Hlophe
Parliament to vote on motion to set up ad-hoc committee to investigate allegations
This follows a submission to parliament’s speaker by the law professor and commentator that the process is more important than objections about his objectivity
Capital markets are no longer falling over themselves to fund our electricity generation, but South Africa’s leaders should have acted with urgency years ago