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            <title>Electoral Court delivers rulings on party funding appeals, municipal list disputes</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Electoral Court has handed down two significant decisions shaping South African political and electoral jurisprudence, granting the GOOD Party leave to appeal a major party funding ruling, while dismissing a DA bid to block ActionSA from supplementing its proportional representation (PR) councillor lists. The GOOD Party and its secretary-general Brett Herron have been granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) following a unanimous judgment by the Electoral Court.]]></description>
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            <title>ActionSA, DA demand systemic overhaul after Johnson, Khan arrests</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The high-profile arrests of former Investigating Directorate Against Corruption head Andrea Johnson and former Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan on Friday sparked intense political reactions, with opposition parties declaring the developments a “definitive exposure of systemic vulnerabilities” in South Africa's law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies. The two senior officials were arrested on Friday on serious allegations of defeating the ends of justice. The swift fallout from the arrests has reignited fierce national debates surrounding institutional capture, political interference, and the immediate need for independent prosecutorial bodies. ActionSA revealed that the arrests were the culmination of intense scrutiny during parliamentary proceedings and subsequent findings from the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry.]]></description>
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            <title>DA demands accountability as Information Regulator launches probe into Land Bank</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The DA has demanded that the Land Bank fully cooperate with the Information Regulator and provide a “lawful response” to an outstanding Promotion of Access to Information Act request. This call comes after the Information Regulator confirmed it will launch a pre-investigation into a complaint lodged by DA Member of the National Council of Provinces Dr Igor Scheurkogel. The complaint was triggered by the Land Bank’s failure to respond to an application submitted under Section 18(1) of PAIA, or to notify the party of any extension. Scheurkogel emphasised that as a State-owned institution entrusted with supporting South Africa's vital agricultural sector, the Land Bank has a clear responsibility to answer lawful requests for information. "Farmers and South Africans deserve transparency, and Land Bank must account," Scheurkogel stated, noting that any refusal to disclose public records must be properly justified under the law.]]></description>
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            <title>Cachalia seeks Cabinet approval to appoint Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as new Hawks head</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has initiated the formal process to appoint KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as the new National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, widely known as the Hawks. The Police Ministry confirmed on Thursday that Cachalia has officially submitted a Cabinet Memorandum seeking the necessary concurrence for Mkhwanazi's appointment. The memorandum is slated to be presented at the earliest available opportunity during an upcoming Cabinet sitting. The appointment process is being strictly conducted under the legislative framework of the South African Police Service Act 68 of 1995 and cannot be finalised without the formal agreement and concurrence of Cabinet. Once Cabinet concurrence is achieved, the Act requires that the appointment be formally reported to Parliament for oversight purposes.]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa economy estimated to be 4.9% bigger after rebasing</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's economy was estimated to be 4.9% larger than previously reported after a benchmarking and rebasing exercise, the statistics agency said on Thursday. Statistics South Africa said the exercise raised the size of the economy in 2022 to R6.99-trillion from a previously published estimate of R6.67-trillion. The agency said it changed the base year for its gross domestic product estimates to 2022 from 2015. It also took into account changes in the composition of formal and informal parts of the economy. All 10 sectors that it tracks were shown to have higher output, with mining, finance and trade registering the largest increases, partly due to factoring in illicit or illegal activity in those industries.]]></description>
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            <title>GOOD, RISE Mzansi carve up Gauteng, W Cape to fight fragmentation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a major strategic alignment ahead of the November 4 local government elections, GOOD party secretary-general and City of Cape Town mayoral candidate Brett Herron has announced his party’s consolidation with RISE Mzansi as an “incremental step” toward fully merging the two political parties for the 2029 national elections. Herron detailed how the alliance will operate on the ground, its strict rules for coalition governance, and a restructured municipal model aimed at dismantling systemic poverty. According to Herron, GOOD and RISE Mzansi have fully integrated their candidates and campaign structures to prevent split caucuses within key metropolitan councils, highlighting that in Cape Town, the joint campaign runs entirely under the GOOD party banner.]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa risks return to money-laundering grey list</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa faces a significant risk of returning to the Financial Action Task Force's grey list barely a year after it secured removal, according to the latest quarterly assessment from business lobby group Business Leadership South Africa. The FATF grey list names countries under increased monitoring for weaknesses in fighting money laundering and terrorist financing. A return to the list would increase scrutiny of South African financial transactions, raise compliance costs for banks and businesses, and risk some international banks pulling back from correspondent relationships — making cross-border payments and trade finance slower and more expensive. South Africa spent more than two years on the list before its removal and business groups warned at the time that the listing had deterred foreign investment.]]></description>
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            <title>AI, ultra-cheap disinformation threatens voter trust – experts</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa prepares for the highly anticipated local government elections, the intersection of AI, political campaigning, and digital disinformation has triggered intense national scrutiny. At a recent high-level roundtable focused on combating fake news, public officials and independent fact-checkers converged to sound the alarm on a rapidly evolving digital landscape that threatens to compromise voter trust. Speaking at the roundtable, Sandile Nene of the Government Communication and Information System reflected on the challenges governments face when communicating in a modern digital era. According to Nene, South Africa has plunged headfirst into the "attention economy" – an environment defined by "content everywhere" where algorithms aggressively dictate what citizens see and believe.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa prepares for the November Local Government Elections, Polity is engaging with political parties contesting the elections in a series of interviews to examine their manifestos, policy priorities and plans for local government. As political parties make their final pledges for change ahead of next week’s local government election, RISE Mzansi is campaigning on the need for systemic change to solve South Africa’s most pressing issues. Speaking exclusively with Polity, RISE Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi highlighted the importance of spatial justice, accessible public transport and ensuring that people live as close as possible to their places of work. “All of these things are interlinked. You can't just solve one. What defines both the legacy of the ANC and the DA is that they tend to speak about these things as totally disconnected things. And that's a conversation we've been having with South Africans for the last few months,” he said.]]></description>
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            <title>Ramaphosa receives final report on Iran's participation in naval exercise</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially received the final report from the independent panel appointed to investigate naval drills known as "Exercise MOSI III: Will of Peace." The Presidency confirmed that the panel, chaired by retired Justice Bernard Ngoepe, concluded its probe into how Iran’s navy participated in the joint exercises despite explicit instructions from the President prohibiting it. The investigation was instituted in February 2026 following an apparent breakdown in the command structure during the Chinese-led "Will of Peace 2026" drills held in South African waters. Ramaphosa had previously issued a direct instruction requesting that Iran withdraw and no longer participate in the joint exercise. When that directive was openly ignored, the President instituted an urgent, high-level panel to uncover how and why his executive instructions failed to filter down through the military and State structures.]]></description>
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            <title>Ramaphosa deploys army to KZN to curb anti-immigrant violence</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the deployment of 510 members of the South African National Defence Force to KwaZulu-Natal to assist the South African Police Service under Operation Prosper. The temporary deployment comes in response to recent outbreaks of public violence and planned anti-immigrant marches sparked by a widespread campaign of misinformation. Ramaphosa noted that the SANDF will be on standby to support the police for “any eventuality that may occur”. The intervention is legally grounded under Section 201(2)(a) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, which empowers the President to deploy the military to cooperate with the police service when internal stability is threatened. The deployment is for the period from October 9 until November 30.]]></description>
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            <title>Hill-Lewis warns against ‘coalition chaos’, urges Capetonians to secure DA majority</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ahead of next week's highly anticipated local government elections, DA leader and Cape Town mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis has issued a strong warning to residents against splitting their votes, urging them to keep "coalition chaos" out of the city by voting for the DA. Speaking at a campaign announcement in Blouberg on Tuesday, Hill-Lewis argued that voting for smaller parties risks opening the door for an ANC and EFF “takeover”. He pointed to the political instability that has severely impacted Johannesburg as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a single party does not secure a decisive mandate. “With just days to go, I am asking personally for Capetonians’ support so that, together, we can take Cape Town forward for everyone,” Hill-Lewis said.]]></description>
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