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Community members of Ditsobotla Municipality protest outside Luthuli House on September 21, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. They were demanding that Hlomani Chauke step down from all five municipalities in the North West. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)
ANC

ANC leader Chauke could face arrest if found in contempt of court

The ANC North West leader Hlumani Chauke has been accused of failing to abide by a court order in legal documents seeking his arrest

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
Committee chairperson Lorna Maloney says less influential ANC members who were supposed to be on the party list were bumped off it in favour of ANC municipal representatives who had been illegitimately parachuted into positions. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

ANC orders removal of North West municipal representatives

Hlomani Chauke is again in hot waters with the provincial list committee

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
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ANC

Local government elections: Dear ANC, look before you leap

In love, as in politics, look before you leap

  • Kiri Rupiah
  • Luke Feltham
5 min read
Klingon: Job Mokgoro is resisting the North West interim provincial committee’s call for him to step down as premier. (Tiro Ramatlhatse)
ANC

Mokgoro was party to talks of his resignation

The North West premier has defied the interim provincial committee’s decision

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
The bill proposes a transitional period of 24 months for the department of home affairs to enable officers an opportunity to be trained if it is passed. (Gallo)
CIVIL UNION ACT

Home affairs committee adopts Civil Union Amendment Bill

The bill, which will be presented to the National Assembly to pass, will afford same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples

  • Canny Maphanga
1 min read
Gigaba has previously insisted he did not give the Oppenheimer family permission to offer a customs and immigration service at the airport in 2016. (David Harrison/M&G)
AIRPORTS COMPANY SOUTH AFRICA

Gigaba promises to explain Fireblade lies

Minister tells parliamentary committee there was no policy for VVIP terminals and accuses the chair of not letting him share his side of the story

  • Agency
  • Gemma Ritchie
3 min read
“From where I am sitting, I haven’t come across any inkling that there was corrupt activity, so for me I am comfortable in the role I played,” says Major Kobese. (David Harrison/M&G)
AJAY GUPTA

How the Guptas may have got their home affairs man in India

Major Kobese — a former director in the department’s foreign office — could not explain why he sent an email to Ashu Chawla’s email address

  • Raeesa Pather
3 min read
The controversy over the Guptas’ citizenship arose when home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba publicly said that Atul Gupta is not a South African citizen, only to correct himself and say that Atul is a citizen. (Gallo)
AJAY GUPTA

Parliament continues investigation into Gupta naturalisation

The second phase of the inquiry is set to begin on Wednesday

  • Raeesa Pather
3 min read