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Headache: Despite efforts to provide homes, the relentless demand for housing with basic services in the country has not diminished over 30 years. Photo: Cuan Hansen/Getty Images

Department of Human Settlements

They have on the whole served satisfactorily, but the department has also been marred by decades of maladministration and corruption

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi .(Alet Pretorius/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Motsoaledi withdrawing South Africa from international refugees treaties is not a solution

The country must chart a humane policy for refugees that flows from the spirit and objects of the post-apartheid constitutional order

A source with intimate knowledge of the process said the SIU was looking at the awarding of the social facilitation contract to Sibonelo Shinga’s MPS Strategic Solutions (MPSSS) by former Umgeni Water’s chief executive, Thami Hlongwa (above).

New probe into R138m contract given to slain tenderpreneur’s firm

Special Investigating Unit is also looking into ‘irregular’ R220m security tender at the Umgeni Water Board

Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu

Court blow to Mchunu as Amatola Water board members win reinstatement case

The water minister wants to extend Amatola’s coverage area to include the whole Eastern Cape

Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu

Court hurdles ahead for Senzo Mchunu’s super water entity

Former board members wanting to be reinstated for a second time are challenging the water and sanitation minister

Recently-appointed Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says she took on the role to “clean up” the department, in the wake of the recent R1 billion Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship scandal.

De Lille addresses SA Tourism shake-up: ‘Nobody’s indispensable’

The minister was speaking at Africa’s Travel Indaba, days after the acting chief executive of the country’s official national marketing agency resigned

Former Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. Photo: Supplied

Sisulu: Public protector’s report aimed at smearing my good name

Former minister rejects findings of ‘maladministration’ against her over the national rapid response task team she appointed

South African Tourism board chairperson Thozamile Botha and three other board members are understood to have resigned on Monday ahead of being suspended. Photo: Supplied

SA Tourism head quits before De Lille dissolves board

The new minister, Patricia de Lille, believes the appointment process was flawed

Former members of the Umgeni Water Amanzi board have gone to court to challenge their removal by Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu

Umgeni Water board challenges its disbandment

The former members have said that an interim board has been appointed illegally and without being vetted

Former members of the Umgeni Water Amanzi board have gone to court to challenge their removal by Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu

Umgeni Water board fired again

The board’s members are preparing to go back to court to challenge their termination

Out: Former ministers Nathi Mthethwa (above) and Lindiwe Sisulu did not keep their jobs this week. Photo: Siyabulela Duda

More is less, except when it comes to electricity, as Ramaphosa culls his cabinet

Electricity minister Sputla Ramakgopa’s brief is to get himself fired. Not coal-fired, that is, but to work himself out of his job

Truth to power: The M&G’s columnist has strong words for Police Minister Bheki Cele who he says is visible but ineffective. Photo: Morapedi Mashashe/Gallo Images & Darren Stewart/Gallo Image

Reshuffle: Ramaphosa forced to play a game of thrones

The shifts were not about improving government’s efficiency but about securing political futures

Deputy President Paul Mashatile said the president would soon reveal the fate of the BELA Bill after months of deliberations and consultations. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa names his electricity minister, Paul Mashatile becomes new deputy president

The president has increased his already bloated cabinet, promising once again to reduce it in time

Bishop Mzilikazi Themba Khumalo. Photo: Supplied

Like Tottenham’s title challenges and attempts to resurrect the dead, the Spurs sponsorship deal has flopped

Miracles R Us flops – like Spurs’ title challenge

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Tourism portfolio committee tells Lindiwe Sisulu to bin Spurs proposal

The parliamentary committee delivered a broadside against the tourism minister, and wants the mooted sponsorship deal investigated

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa frowns upon Tottenham Hotspurs sponsorship deal

The cost is not justified, the presidency says of the deal with a R1 billion price tag

The ANC has confirmed that it has deployed KwaZulu-Natal heavyweights Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Zweli Mkhize to boost its elections machinery in the province.

Good times are coming as Ramaphosa plays the disaster card

As Nkosazana Disaster Zuma gets ready to once again rule we should fear a cigarette ban to keep the lights on is loading

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Time for Ramaphosa to boot the costly dead wood in the cabinet

In addition to the looting of Covid-19 emergency funds released in terms of the 2020 state of national disaster, Ramaphosa’s term has been marked by a series of acts of financial…

Carl Niehaus resigned a few days after the ANC national disciplinary committee resolved to expel him from the party.

Phala Phala vs. Digital Vibes: As the voting kicks off, its anybody’s ANC presidency

Zweli Mkhize has closed the gap between himself and Cyril Ramaphosa in the days leading up to the leadership vote

Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is now a minister in the presidency responsible for youth, women and people with disabilities. (Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dlamini Zuma faces ANC disciplinary hearing over section 89 vote in parliament

The party’s top six agreed that the would-be presidential contender committed misconduct by voting with the opposition against the ANC party line