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HANDS-ON: Johanneburg Mayor Dada Morero has been spearheading countless cleaning-up operations
around the City lately. Photo: Supplied

You don’t need a summit to clean a city; you need consistency

The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’

Communications Minister Solly Malatsi   (Instagram)

SABC Bill referred to cabinet clearing house for processing

The Democratic Alliance says there is no strategy for its ministers to torpedo bills they opposed before joining the GNU

Mondli Gungubele, has removed the board of directors of the South African Postbank amid allegations of an unlawful contract worth R140 million.  (Photo by PRESIDENCY OF SOUTH AFRICA/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Mondli Gungubele says Postbank mass resignation was to avoid accountability for unlawful contract

The minister has been accused by the Postbank board of being treated with hostility, undermined and disrespected

File photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images

Almost 3000 military vets push ahead with reparations claim of R4.2m each

The claim is based on the R500 000 each veteran was promised in 1994, which they say today works out to be R4.2 million.

Mbalula: Don’t knock us

Ndabeni-Abrahams defended Mbalula’s ANCYL ‘unilateralism’

An effort to have the ANC secretary general account for his actions at the ANCYL conference was thwarted by his allies at a recent National Working Committee meeting

Staying put: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is under pressure from some political parties to resign over the VAT drama and the national budget. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Who Patel and Godogwana could make way for, as cabinet reshuffle speculation continues

ANC insiders are almost certain that Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will not remain the cooperative governance minister for long

In the know: Then Eskom chief executive André de Ruyter (left) briefs Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe (second left), President Cyril Ramaphosa (centre) and others about corruption and sabotage at Tutuka power station.

Cabinet, board knew about Eskom corruption – and did nothing

Syndicates, sabotage, theft and inaction by those in the know has helped bring the state-owned power producer to its knees, hurting the country in the process

A protester reacts as Reigers Park community members protest outside the municipal offices over service delivery and housing issues on March 9, 2017 in Boksburg, South Africa. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Semigration: A tale of two South Africas

According to Statistics South Africa’s report, the largest increase in employment over the quarter stemmed from the Western Cape at 6.9%

The future of our healthcare system is in our hands; we approach it with responsibility, collaboration and a deep commitment to the well-being of all people.  (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Hospitals exempt from load-shedding as new disaster regulations take effect

Government departments will be compelled to introduce power saving measures and to move to alternative energy sources

The City of Cape Town is proceeding with its land release on the historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock, despite a decision by the Western Cape Heritage council to endorse a heritage impact assessment recommending the land be preserved as urban green space.

For Cape Town – with love and squalor

Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past

The Democratic Alliance  has called for a “mass protest” in Cape Town on Wednesday against what it has dubbed the “race quotas” bill.
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State of the Nation address debate opens 2024 election season early

DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink

Digital Technologies Minister Mondli Gungubele

Focus on Eskom’s future as ANC top body meets

Costs and effect will determine how and when state-owned entities are moved from the department of enterprises to line departments

Late former deputy president David Mabuza. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Going, going … is David Mabuza about to exit the presidency?

ANC sources say the deputy president submitted a resignation letter on Monday

Teed off: Cyril Ramaphosa gave Judas Mathabatha the cold shoulder at the Presidential Golf Day. Photo: Mlungis Louw/Gallo Images

Ramaphosa stalls post-conference festive gifts

We’re all crying out for a cabinet reshuffle – and Paul Mashatile for his West Wing office – but the post-conference presents will take time

Newly elected National Executive Committee members of the ANC (From L to R) Second Deputy Secretary-General Maropene Ramokgopa, First Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane, Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe, ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa, ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile and Treasurer General Gwen Ramokgopa pose for a photo during the 55th National Conference of the ANC at NASREC

It’s a Molo Molo world as Ramaphosa’s forces win the day

Ethnic chauvinism and table banging don’t win conferences once one crosses the Drakensberg mountains

Demonstrators march during a national strike day of action over the high cost of living, organised by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), in Tshwane, South Africa, on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Joblessness, rising food and fuel prices and an aggressive interest-rate hiking cycle pose a threat to social stability in an economy still reeling from several Covid-19 lockdowns and deadly riots in 2021. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gungubele asks Cosatu, Saftu to ‘relook’ at their demands raised in shutdown march

The labour federations want a basic income grant of R1 500 and for a drop in the price of food, fuel, electricity and interest rates to

The department of mineral resources and energy said the new fuel prices would come into effect on Wednesday. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Government still ‘debating’ extension of fuel price relief measures

Fuel prices are expected to increase by at least R3 a litre if the R1.50 reprieve is not extended

Mondli Gungubele, has removed the board of directors of the South African Postbank amid allegations of an unlawful contract worth R140 million.  (Photo by PRESIDENCY OF SOUTH AFRICA/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

President puts Mondli Gungubele in charge of State Security Agency

The presidency said the move required input from legal experts but analysts suggests it may in some way have been precipitated by the fire at parliament

Double check: Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo wants two versions of the final report on state capture, a shorter one for the public and a more detailed version for court cases. Photo: Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images

South African public to get a condensed Zondo report

The Human Sciences Research Council will provide a shorter, reader-friendly document

Mondli Gungubele, has removed the board of directors of the South African Postbank amid allegations of an unlawful contract worth R140 million.  (Photo by PRESIDENCY OF SOUTH AFRICA/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Covid-19 lockdown restrictions still to be discussed, says Gungubele

The minister in the presidency said the cabinet had not discussed adjusted lockdown restrictions and vaccine mandates