The IFP-led administration in Richards Bay said that at least R198 million would be spent to refurbish a local soccer stadium and a fitness center. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came out to defend a recently approved a R600 million loan to the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, saying it would prioritise revenue-generating infrastructure programmes. The […]
DA members in Gauteng will be marching to the ruling party’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. In Cape Town, they will take their protest to the ANC’s provincial office in Cape Town’s CBD on Wednesday afternoon. The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape and Gauteng is expected to take to the […]
The official opposition’s legal challenge of the governing party’s cadre deployment and development policy kicked off in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Counsel for the Democratic Alliance (DA) has compared the African National Congress (ANC)’s cadre deployment and development policy to a “cancer” The official opposition’s legal challenge of the governing party’s cadre deployment […]
They have, once again, called for the head of Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, whose ministry is expected to take over the political responsibility of Eskom. Opposition political parties rejected Eskom’s apparent plans for indefinite power cuts with “contempt.” Parties, including the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Congress of the People (Cope), again, called for […]
The Jacob Zuma Foundation said Ramaphosa should make his case as an accused in a criminal court. Former President Jacob Zuma’s foundation says he is forging ahead with the appeal of a ruling in favour of President Cyril Ramaphosa. It says the President should make his case as an accused in a criminal court. The […]
The postponement is to allow for the conclusion of a Supreme Court of Appeal challenge to overturn a high court ruling. The corruption case against the African National Congress’ (ANC) former secretary-general Ace Magashule and 18 others has been postponed to 5 May. Magashule and his co-accused appeared in the Bloemfontein High Court on Friday, […]
Solidarity joined opposition political parties and organisations in threatening to take Eskom to court over the crippling impact of the rolling power cuts. Eskom’s inability to alleviate the country’s power crisis meant that South Africa needed to urgently head towards private generation supply, trade union Solidarity has said. Indefinite stage 6 power cuts were implemented […]
The judgment means that President Cyril Ramaphosa will not have to stand in the dock this week as an accused. The Johannesburg High Court has granted President Cyril Ramaphosa an interim interdict against the private prosecution brought against him by former President Jacob Zuma. Ramaphosa approached the courts for relief from Zuma’s private prosecution of […]
Ramaphosa had already met with the leadership of Eskom and the national energy crisis committee. President Cyril Ramaphosa will hold a series of emergency meetings this week in a bid to resolve the country’s worsening energy crisis, his office said. Ramaphosa cancelled his trip to Switzerland, where he was meant to lead the South African […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest apology about the endless blackouts, evidenced by failing electricity supplier Eskom introducing daily stage 6 load shedding, has been received with a pinch of salt. Dr Pali Lehohla, former Statistician General of South Africa, told a broadcaster that there had been a trend of making State entities fail, setting them up […]