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Brace for a weekend of loadshedding
8th December 2023 Stage 3 load shedding will be implemented from 16:00 on Friday until 05:00 on Saturday, Eskom said on Friday afternoon. Thereafter, loadshedding... →
Alleged mastermind behind robbery at Ramaphosa's farm denied bail
8th December 2023 The Bela Bela Magistrate's Court on Friday denied bail to the alleged mastermind of a burglary at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm.... →
Mashatile signs anti-corruption pledge as a whistleblower activist
8th December 2023 Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called on both the public and private sectors to unite against the scourge of corruption. Mashatile also signed... →
Palestinians mourn poet Refaat Alareer killed in Israeli air strike
8th December 2023 Tributes have poured in following the killing of renowned, and for some controversial, Palestinian poet and academic Refaat Alareer, in an Israeli... →
Ahead of key Israel-Hamas ceasefire vote, where do UNSC members stand?
8th December 2023 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will meet today (14:00) to discuss the war in Gaza, after its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a... →
Roger Jardine attracts big names from NGOs, civil society to join political movement
8th December 2023 Helen Suzman Foundation executive director Nicole Fritz is set to leave civil society to join former banker Roger Jardine in launching a new... →
National government to 'engage' Western Cape on budget cuts after dispute declaration
8th December 2023 High-level talks over drastic budget cuts are on the cards between Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and Western Cape Premier Alan Winde after the... →
Ezulweni halts liquidation application as ANC veterans, Ramaphosa intervene
8th December 2023 The African National Congress (ANC) has changed its tack in the more than R100-million debt fiasco, with party veterans sent as emissaries to... →
Post Office business rescue: Now for the R3.8-billion bailout
8th December 2023 The Post Office's business rescue practitioners (BRPs) say there are "positive indications" they will receive a promised R3.8-billion State bailout... →
Gupta 'fixer' Kuben Moodley asks court to relax bail conditions to travel to India
8th December 2023 Gupta associate Kuben Moodley petitioned the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court sitting in Palm Ridge to relax his bail conditions,... →
Spy bill: Inspector-General of Intelligence concerned about bill weakening its independence
8th December 2023 The General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (Gilab) "in effect, seeks to limit and, in other areas, fails to address the independence of the... →
FUL slams JSC's snubbing of 'eminently suitable' SCA candidates as judges decry capacity crisis
8th December 2023 Hours after Freedom Under Law (FUL) launched its challenge to the Judicial Service Commission's (JSC) failure to fill two vacancies at the Appeal... →
Gordhan: Law enforcement is not acting against corruption
8th December 2023 Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has blasted law enforcement agencies, saying that they must come to the fore to address state capture... →
Bittersweet outcome for ANC after councillors' murders lead to by-elections in Western Cape and KZN
7th December 2023 It was a bittersweet day for the African National Congress (ANC) during by-elections in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday. The... →
Displacement, death, hunger as Israel’s war on Gaza enters third month
7th December 2023 Fighting has escalated in Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis as Israeli air strikes rain down throughout the enclave, forcing Palestinians... →
Russia set to hold presidential election in March 2024
7th December 2023 Russia’s upper house of parliament has voted to set the date for the country’s next presidential election for March 17, 2024, potentially moving... →
Freedom Under Law launches urgent bid to force JSC to reconsider filling 2 SCA vacancies
7th December 2023 Freedom Under Law (FUL) has launched urgent legal action to force the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to reconsider its decision not to fill two... →
NHI: 'Exodus' of doctors if bill is signed into law, healthcare bodies warn
7th December 2023 South Africa will see an "exodus" of doctors, while the country’s struggling poor and middle-class will suffer through higher taxes if President... →
South Africa demands 'balanced' ICC investigation on Gaza - excluding Israel
7th December 2023 The International Criminal Court (ICC) must investigate and prosecute "in an unbiased and even-handed manner", Justice Minister Ronald Lamola told... →
Mark Heywood to join hands with Roger Jardine in formation of new political movement
7th December 2023 Social justice activist Mark Heywood is transitioning to politics as he plans to join former banker Roger Jardine to form a new "political... →
Treasury set to withhold extra funding for 23 KZN councils after failure to spend on infrastructure
7th December 2023 In a province ravaged by floods that caused R25-billion worth of infrastructure damage, at least 23 municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal are at risk of... →
City of Cape Town honours 'truly remarkable' citizens who made the city a better place
7th December 2023 After a 12-year hiatus, the City of Cape Town honoured "exceptional Capetonians" at an awards ceremony on Wednesday. The Civic Honours ceremony was... →
UN secretary-general invokes Article 99 on Gaza
7th December 2023 The United Nations (UN) secretary-general Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, urging the UN Security Council to act on the... →
NHI is 'unstoppable train', say ANC MPs – but business, medical professionals gear up for a fight
7th December 2023 Medical professionals and business organisations reacted immediately to the passage of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill through the... →
Tourism players struggle as one area claims no water for nine weeks
7th December 2023 The water crisis on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal continues unabated as the key December period sees tourism again struggling to cope with poor... →
EFF's disciplinary woes in Parliament mounting as more MPs face sanctions for disruptive antics
7th December 2023 Disciplinary hearings into the disruptive conduct of four Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MPs are set to go ahead next week after a legal bid to... →
Show corruption busting unit the money, urges Cosatu after NPA Amendment Bill passes in National Assembly
7th December 2023 African National Congress (ANC) alliance partner Cosatu called on the government to adequately resource the soon-to-be-established Investigating... →
Eastern Cape top judge Selby Mbenenge to face tribunal over sexual harassment claim
7th December 2023 Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge will be tried by a Judicial Conduct Tribunal regarding his alleged sexual harassment of Makhanda High... →
ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang cuts ties with party
7th December 2023 African National Congress Veterans League (ANCVL) deputy president Mavuso Msimang has cut ties with the ANC after six decades as a member, saying... →
Mbalula calls on ANC veterans to 'stop de-campaigning the organisation'
7th December 2023 African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula accused its veterans of "de-campaigning the organisation" as the party's woes... →
DA offers R100 000 reward for information on who shot uMngeni chief whip in front of his kids
6th December 2023 uMngeni Democratic Alliance (DA) chief whip Nhlalayenza Ndlovu was gunned down at his home on Tuesday night, in full view of his wife and two... →
Some progress made in bringing culprits to trial, but still only 50% conviction rate
6th December 2023 The Fusion Centre has made some strides in fighting Covid-19-related corruption, although it only managed to secure convictions for less than half... →
National Assembly greenlights suspension of Malema, EFF leaders for storming SONA stage
6th December 2023 The National Assembly (NA) has given its approval for Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and five of his fellow party members to... →
DA chief whip in uMngeni shot dead in Mpophomeni, KZN
6th December 2023 The Democratic Alliance's (DA's) chief whip in the uMngeni Local Municipality, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu, was shot dead in Mpophomeni on Tuesday night.... →
Rescuers pull out first survivor of Zambia landslide that trapped 25 miners
6th December 2023 Rescue workers in Zambia have pulled out the first survivor of a 1 December landslide that inundated a open-pit copper mine and trapped at least 25... →
Concerns raised about SSA watering down intelligence coordinator's role
6th December 2023 Tension between the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee (Nicoc) and State Security Agency (SSA) was apparent as Parliament heard the... →
Gauteng's three metros among 29 municipalities facing criminal cases for flouting Water Act
6th December 2023 In the last four years, more than 40 criminal cases have been opened against municipalities around the country for contravening provisions of the... →
Trial of man with possible Phala Phala links stalls
6th December 2023 The long-awaited gun-running trial of the man named in Arthur Fraser's explosive affidavit on the Phala Phala money heist stalled in the Cape Town... →
Zondo, Mlambo dismantle fake judicial corruption accusations, urge public to 'protect judges'
6th December 2023 It didn't take long for Chief Justice Raymond Zondo to realise that a recently released "intelligence report" on alleged judicial corruption was... →
ANC set to steam ahead on NHI Bill after short pause
6th December 2023 The National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill will be debated for adoption by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Wednesday after it stalled at... →
ANC bank accounts have less than R100k, Ezulweni claims, as party's debt balloons to more than R140m
6th December 2023 Ezulweni Investments – the events company embroiled in a court battle with the African National Congress (ANC) – found that the governing party's... →
