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Hands on: Dada Morero, third from left, and officials on a site visit to assess the water crisis plaguing Johannesburg residents.
AGEING ASBESTOS PIPES

Billions needed to sort water crisis

Joburg’s Dada Morero assured residents that the city would not implement water-shedding in the same way South Africans endured load-shedding

  • Lunga Mzangwe
6 min read
The ANC in Gauteng believes it is on track to secure at least 40% of the vote in the 2026 local government elections (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
2024 GENERAL ELECTIONS

ANC Gauteng bets on internal renewal to lift 2026 election prospects

Internal polls forecast at least 40% of votes in the local government elections, while warnings against factionalism abound

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Amos Masondo takes over ANC Gauteng’s provincial leadership

Gauteng secretary TK Nciza was demoted to being an additional member and snubbed the meeting

  • Mandisa Makgakga
3 min read
Up in the air: Gauteng provincial secretary TK Nciza. Photos: X/ANC and Gallo Images
AMOS MASONDO

Confusion reigns over ANC rejig

Reconfiguration or dissolution? Moves against Gauteng and KZN leaders leaves party in disarray

  • Lunga Mzangwe
5 min read
The City Hall is to be used by Parliament for SONA on January 31, 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa. The City of Cape Town made the building available following the devastating Parliament fire earlier this month. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
2022 SONA

Despite last month’s fire at parliament, officials ‘confident’ about incident-free Sona at new venue

An estimated R4-million has been budgeted for this year’s event, up sharply from R208 000 in 2021

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Smoke billows from the roof of a building at the South African Parliament precinct in Cape Town on January 2, 2022, during a fire incident. – A major fire broke out in the South African parliament building in Cape Town on January 2, 2022. Firefighters were present at the building as large flames and a huge column of smoke were seen at around 0530 GMT. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
AMOS MASONDO

Nehawu members “very anxious” and “worried” following parliament fire

Parliament yet to implement health and safety recommendations from 2018, union claims

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Smoke billows from the roof of a building at the South African Parliament precinct in Cape Town on January 2, 2022, during a fire incident. – A major fire broke out in the South African parliament building in Cape Town on January 2, 2022. Firefighters were present at the building as large flames and a huge column of smoke were seen at around 0530 GMT. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
AMOS MASONDO

Firefighters battle new parliament fire

Fresh blaze erupts on roof of National Assembly

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Firefighters are dispatched to extinguish the fire broke out at parliament building in Cape Town, South Africa on January 02, 2022. (Photo by Xabiso Mkhabela/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
AMOS MASONDO

Parliament fire contained, crews airing gutted National Assembly

After firefighters battled for more than 24 hours to bring the devastating blaze under control, presiding officers were meeting on Monday to assess the damage

  • Emsie Ferreira
2 min read
“Our municipalities have a crisis of poor financial management or planning to attract revenue, and they need to be capacitated there,” Amos Masondo said.
AMOS MASONDO

Calls for removal of unethical local government leaders at Salga conference

Ability must determine who gets hired, not jobs for pals or because of their political affiliation, says the head of the South African Local Government Association

  • Chris Gilili
4 min read
Late former deputy president David Mabuza. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AMOS MASONDO

Mabuza asked to account for why ministers were seated next to Malema in Senekal

MPs can’t seem to stop the house from degenerating into screaming matches, even during virtual sittings, as exhibited when the deputy president answered questions in the NCOP on…

  • Bongekile Macupe
4 min read
Parliament does not have robust enough rules governing member behaviour. (David Harrison/M&G)
AMOS MASONDO

Parliament to shut down in bid to control the spread of Covid-19

The legislature will suspend its business indefinitely from Wednesday, after a final sitting to pass two pieces of critical legislation to keep the wheels of government turning

  • Lester Kiewit
2 min read
Researchers have established, for instance, that spatial apartheid contributes directly to Joburg’s chronic unemployment. (Gallo)
AMOS MASONDO

Moving towards undoing Joburg’s spatial apartheid

The Nodal Review might transform South Africa’s biggest city. Implementing the new policy, which has the potential to open wealthy suburbs to impoverished residents, is the…

  • Dennis Webster
6 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Reuters/Mike Hutchings)
AMOS MASONDO

Ramaphosa makes peace with Malema over gender-based violence comments

In his Sona response, the president apologised for the weaponising of gender-based violence, saying the attack on the red beret leader was “uncalled for”

  • Lester Kiewit
4 min read
“I will leave the house now. But the fact remains: Nomazizi must rest in peace — she was abused by your president,” EFF leader Julius Malema said.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

EFF ‘circus’ becomes contagion as MPs heckle Malema

ANC MPs test the EFF’s disruptive tactics on the leader of the Red Berets in Sona reply

  • Lester Kiewit
5 min read
FW De Klerk at the State of the Nation address on February 13. (David Harrison/M&G)
AMOS MASONDO

De Klerk now admits apartheid was a crime against humanity

Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
Fighting talk: The Economic Freedom Fighters have waged a war against Pravin Gordhan. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
AMOS MASONDO

EFF stands firm on plans to disrupt Sona

Julius Malema’s 44-member caucus stick to their guns: ‘Fire Pravin or else’

  • Lester Kiewit
2 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear before the Zondo commission for four days in late April, to testify both in his capacity as president of the country and as president of the ANC. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AMOS MASONDO

Sona: DA expects Ramaphosa to stick to his script

The official opposition says the president’s state of the nation speech will not detail anything new or productive. Meanwhile, the EFF is threatening more disruption

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
In his latest bid for the removal of Billy Downer from the arms deal trial, the former president claims the prosecutor fuelled the narrative that he wants to delay the case (Wikus de Wet/Pool/AFP)
AMOS MASONDO

Zuma lawyers confirm he will not be attending Sona

The former president’s lawyers say they do not know how where Parliament obtained the information about his attendance

  • Lester Kiewit
2 min read
South Africa’s defence minister, Thandi Modise. (Gallo)
AMOS MASONDO

Meet the ANC’s new team for Parliament

Changes include Thandi Modise for speaker of the National Assembly. North West premier Job Mokgoro also keeps his job

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to co-opt the media during the last years of the Zuma era. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo)
AMOS MASONDO

Time running out for Parliament to deal with abuses at spy agency

A 100-page report details ‘serious breaches of the Constitution, policy, law, regulations and directives’ by the former president

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read