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DA launches 'Blueprint to Rescue SA', promises to fix Parly, end cadre deployment once in govt
By: Thabi Shomolekae 6th February 2024 The Democratic Alliance has promised that it will fix Parliament and turn it into the engine room of reform, once the party is voted into... →
DA threatens legal action if Ramaphosa pushes through NHI Bill
By: Thabi Shomolekae 6th February 2024 Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen promised on Tuesday that if President Cyril Ramaphosa rams through the National Health Insurance Bill,... →
Hill-Lewis urges Ramaphosa to fast-track devolution of rail, policing powers to deal with crises
By: Sashnee Moodley 6th February 2024 Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is looking to President Cyril Ramaphosa for answers on the delay of the national Rail Devolution Strategy, which... →
SONA: Cape Town Mayor calls for action on gang crime, passenger rail
6th February 2024 Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the crisis of illegal firearms fuelling gang and drug... →
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger want to leave Ecowas. A political scientist explains the fallout
6th February 2024 Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have sent Ecowas, west Africa’s main political union of 15 countries, a formal notice of their withdrawal from the... →
Hage Geingob: Namibian president who played a modernising role
6th February 2024 Hage Gottfried Geingob served as the third president of Namibia from 2015 until his death on February 4 2024. He was Namibia’s first prime minister... →
Surveillance and the state: South Africa’s proposed new spying law is open for comment – an expert points out its flaws
6th February 2024 In early 2021, the South African Constitutional Court found that the country’s State Security Agency, through its signals intelligence agency, the... →
South Africa’s military is expected to do more than ever with tighter budgets: how the force has declined over 30 years
6th February 2024 The South African National Defence Force marks 30 years this year, having been established on 27 April 1994. It’s as old as the country’s... →