President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on leave following explosive allegations of criminal syndicates infiltrating law enforcement agencies
Parties have called for the president to take action regarding allegations against the police minister
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says he has never met or spoken to Vusimuzi Matlala, despite allegations of political interference in a R360 million South African Police Service tender
Ian Cameron has again called for lifestyle and skills audits on the top ranks of the South African Police Service
The ANC secretary general said the police minister still had to tell his side of the story and there was no basis yet for rebutting the police commissioner’s accusation
KZN Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has accused the minister of having ties to the criminal underworld
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula announced Mabuza’s death in a post on social media platform X
The high cost of living is making it difficult for people to save with many resigned to working into old age or relying on government grants
The department is implementing a formal strategy to curb irregular expenditure and align procurement with the treasury
Gender-based violence specialist Lisa Vetten tells a tribunal the complainant used ‘different strategies to communicate reluctance and unwillingness’
Democratic leader John Steenhuisen however said the party would withdraw from a national dialogue due later this year, calling it a waste of time and money and a distraction from the failures of the ANC
Despite it being praised by the president, civil society coalition counters that South Africa’s green hydrogen vision is fragile
Nobuhle Mthembu was ousted as speaker as the ANC moved to punish ActionSA for refusing to back Morero
During the 2023-24 financial year, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape only built one school each
Shivambu closed the door on returning to the EFF, calling his former party a ‘cult’
The party has developed a performance tracker that grades the government of national unity on everything from leadership and crime to education
The ANC Youth League president said he would rather EFF leader Julius Malema returned to the ANC than Shivambu, who he dismissed as having no support base
Sources said that despite Vuyo Zungula being a member of the African Transformation Movement’s national executive committee, he was not at the meeting that resolved to remove him as party president
The Build One South Africa leader said South Africa had neglected its relations with the US with the underlying mantra that to be anti-west is to be progressive
His department of public works and infrastructure is fully digitising the tender process to root out corruption
Tshwane’s deputy mayor said the Democratic Alliance’s consideration of its federal chairperson as Johannesburg’s mayor suggested the DA’s lack of confidence in its leadership in the city
Developed in 2020 by government and civil society organisations, the plan sets out a strategic framework to guide the national response to gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF)
After talking to white South African farmers, and former apartheid leaders, Burns said the claims are exaggerated and probably spread through social media
The licensing of Elon Musk’s Starlink has sparked debate about whether South Africa’s black economic empowerment laws are an impediment to growth or path to an inclusive economy
Judge Nathan Erasmus said he had not seen any remorse from the trio, who were convicted of kidnapping and human trafficking earlier this month
Amanda Daniels said that Smith, who was convicted earlier this month, had ripped the family apart and still refused to take responsibility for her actions
The president said the low growth was a function of the slow transfer of the means of production to black South Africans
But he secured tentative trade talks as negotiations with officials on a pact between South Africa and the US were set to continue
Some of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s delegates told the US president there were excessive levels of crime in South Africa, and asked for his help to curb it
Now that a VAT increase has been ruled out, the finance minister must find another way to plug a R75bn gap or risk collapsing public services and investor confidence
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said that had AfriForum chief executive Kallie Kriel and his former deputy, Ernst Roets, have sought asylum in the US, they would have become ‘hobos’
The premier and provincial co-convenor said the party would resurrect itself in Gauteng because there was no better alternative