Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian

Expropriation Act

latest news & developments
Ronald Lamola. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Pretoria summons US ambassador as diplomatic strain grows with Washington

US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, was called in for a formal diplomatic demarche following comments the government described as “undiplomatic”

Nostalgia: President Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured here at Nelson Mandela’s prison house on the premises of the Drakenstein Correctional Centre on
Wednesday, had a lot to look back on in his 2026 State of the Nation address on Thursday evening.

From transformation to sustained delivery

Perhaps the most tangible area of progress since SONA 2025 has been energy stabilisation. The marked reduction in the frequency and severity of load-shedding, including extended…

Bowing out: John Steenhuisen believes he is leaving behind a party in a
healthier condition than he found it in 2019.

Steenhuisen blows DA succession race wide open

Siviwe Gwarube and Geordin Hill-Lewis are among those touted to take over party leadership

South Africa’s land reform journey is still shaped by the legacies of colonial conquest and apartheid.
(Madelene Cronjé)

From terra nullius to terrible delay in land restitution and rights

South Africa’s land reform journey is still shaped by the legacies of colonial conquest and apartheid

President Cyril Ramaphosa.(@PresidencyZA/X)

Ramaphosa: Racial redress is not stunting growth

The president said the low growth was a function of the slow transfer of the means of production to black South Africans

Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero at the official handover of the Southern Farms Housing Project. (X)

Johannesburg will expropriate property, but ‘not just for the fun of it’

Mayor Dada Morero said abandoned buildings will be seized to address the 1996 to 1997 RDP waiting list

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (File photo)

Lesufi calls relocated Afrikaners ‘untransformed human beings’

He also said that ‘white only’ enclaves such as Kleinfontein would be dealt with within the ambit of the law

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Supplied

Trump expands refugee resettlement to racial minorities in South Africa

The US has opened its controversial programme to include racial minorities who believe they are facing persecution

The government of national unity. Photo: @Presidency/ZA/X

SA must establish a clear separation of powers between the executive and parliament

Given the shaky coalition government, two sections in the Constitution appear to create a quandary regarding ministers actions in the cabinet

The former deputy finance minister, Mcebisi Jonas has to salvage ties with Washington amid a diplomatic deep freeze and global trade war.

UPDATED: Mcebisi Jonas named special envoy to US

The former deputy finance minister has to salvage ties with Washington amid a diplomatic deep freeze and global trade war

US President Donald Trump (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Trump to snub November G20 summit in SA, again citing so-called persecution of whites

The department of international relations and cooperation rejected the claim, saying the government was bound by the Constitution to defend the rights of South Africans of all…

Graphic: John McCann/M&G

Democracy on the line in global economic trade stand-off

Donald Trump’s executive orders are of dubious constitutionality, having violated civil rights of federal workers, weaponised immigration laws and limited Congress’s powers over…

United States President, Donald Trump. (@WhiteHouse/X)

Trump announces 30% reciprocal tariffs for SA imports

The United States president said ‘some bad things’ are happening in the country

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. (Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images)

Mbalula warns GNU may have to be ‘reconfigured’ over budget deadlock

The ANC secretary general also said there was no truth to rumours that it and the DA had reached an agreement

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images

Mbalula: No longer a need to chant ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’

The ANC secretary general said the ANC would not water it down to ‘Kiss the Boer’, nor would it prescribe to other parties what they must sing