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Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki. Photo: Nicolene Olckers/Gallo Images
ANC

UPDATED: Mbeki provisionally okays inclusion of corruption-accused in ANC elections list, to meet IEC deadline

Cyril Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe had to leave the national executive committee meeting where only five NEC members supported the adoption of the integrity commission report

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
NC national executive committee (NEC) members Zweli Mkhize and Bathabile Dlamini have made it into the list of party leaders destined for parliament, despite being implicated in corruption.
ANC

Tainted ANC leaders Zweli Mkhize, Gwede Mantashe, Bathabile Dlamini, Zandile Gumede top its parliamentary list

ANC leaders including Pravin Gordhan, Angie Motsekga and Lindiwe Zulu have been left off the list

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
The ANC’s top seven will handle the selection process for mayoral candidates after rules were tightened. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
2024 ELECTIONS

The ANC’s ‘Big A’ blame game

The ruling party would have our country relitigate the past ad nauseam. We need solutions not blame

  • Mmusi Maimane
8 min read
Mondli Gungubele, has removed the board of directors of the South African Postbank amid allegations of an unlawful contract worth R140 million. (Photo by PRESIDENCY OF SOUTH AFRICA/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
LINDIWE ZULU

Mondli Gungubele says Postbank mass resignation was to avoid accountability for unlawful contract

The minister has been accused by the Postbank board of being treated with hostility, undermined and disrespected

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read
The expansion of social grants has been one of the most significant redistributive measures in democratic South Africa. Grants now support millions of children, older persons, and people with disabilities. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
LINDIWE ZULU

Social development budget is not fit for purpose

The under-investment in cash transfers and caring services by the government suggests that many may well fall still further behind

  • Lisa Vetten
  • Thokozile Madonko
6 min read
Covid hampers were distributed by charities at the Iterileng informal settlement in 2020, but the government failed to respond structurally to the pandemic. (Photo by Marco LONGARI / AFP)
ACCOUNTABILITY

Sona 2022: Tell us what’s happened, Mr President

The president needs to report back to South Africa on what his government has – and hasn’t – achieved since 2018

  • Rebone Tau
6 min read
The expansion of social grants has been one of the most significant redistributive measures in democratic South Africa. Grants now support millions of children, older persons, and people with disabilities. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COVID 19

How to track your R350 Covid-19 relief grant

All beneficiaries who applied for the R350 relief grant before July 2021, must reapply. Here is how to track your application status

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
The expansion of social grants has been one of the most significant redistributive measures in democratic South Africa. Grants now support millions of children, older persons, and people with disabilities. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ASYLUM SEEKERS

How to apply for the Covid-19 R350 grant

Asylum seekers with valid permits and caregivers will now also be allowed to apply for the reinstituted social relief of distress grant

  • Chris Gilili
4 min read
Reeling: Volunteers and workers clean up the looted Bara Mall in Soweto. The destruction and theft in the country is a more than R50-million blow to the already struggling economy. (Lucas Sola/AFP)
ALEXANDER FORBES

Violence sparks new calls for basic income grant

Analysts agree that economic relief for the poor is needed but are split on whether a grant should be permanent and whether it is affordable

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read
All teachers, including those with comorbidities, are expected to return to work when schools reopen, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Wednesday. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

It’s back to school for the 16 000 teachers on special leave for comorbidities

People at early childhood development are still fighting to get Covid-19 vaccinations

  • Charma du Plessis
2 min read
ALCOHOL BAN

The social development department is discussing vaccinating ECD, Sassa workers in current phase

Minister Lindiwe Zulu made wide-ranging announcements on Friday, including how early childhood development centres should operate under level-four lockdown

  • Charma du Plessis
3 min read
The acting prime minister of eSwatini, Themba Masuku, will this week call on King Mswati III to open negotiations with opposition parties who have been outlawed since 1973. (Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS/Getty Images)
ABSOLUTE MONARCH

eSwatini prime minister to ask king to consider negotiations with opposition parties

Pro-democracy citizens have called for an end Mswati’s absolute rule while the government denies using excessive force against protesters

  • Lizeka Tandwa
3 min read
The long wait to move early childhood development teachers to the department of basic education will be over in nine months, but this does not mean all of them are yet in line to be vaccinated. (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Early childhood development teachers to move to basic education department from April next year

The long wait to move early childhood development teachers to the department of basic education will be over in nine months, but this does not mean all of them are yet in line to…

  • Charma du Plessis
4 min read
The official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), said it does not support a permanent expansion of the grant system at this stage.
BASIC INCOME GRANT

R350 grant: A ticket into the labour market — report

The Covid-19 social relief of distress grant was terminated at the end of April, but research shows it aided job recovery

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
‘Reengineering’: Sassa chief executive Totsie Memela-Khambula plans to trim down the ‘top heavy’ agency
CORRUPTION

Bloated Sassa to make staff cuts

The social security agency has ‘lost’ R2-billion on unnecessary salaries and through wasteful expenditure

  • Khaya Koko
5 min read