5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (495+ words) The African National Congress (ANC) has gone to court to rescue councillor candidates left off its election lists after a deadline blunder that could cost the party representation in six municipalities. The party has filed papers with the Electoral Court…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (615+ words) The 282 to 101 defeat of the EFF’s motion against Speaker Thoko Didiza shows the Government of National Unity is growing stronger, and South Africa now needs that stability to deliver real reform, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. The decisive defeat…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (218+ words) The AbaThembu Kingdom in the Eastern Cape says it will not support anyone linked to extortion leading their community, after an outcry from Mthatha West residents over the ANC’s nomination of Nosiphiwo Luphindo as its candidate for ward 11. The Monarch…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (525+ words) The Mark Burke affair tests the DA’s most valuable political asset, its reputation for clean government, at the worst possible moment before November, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. The Democratic Alliance has built its election campaign around a simple…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (585+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent a tough warning to ANC mayors and councillors: fail your community and you could lose your job. Ramaphosa said the party would no longer protect public representatives who fail to deliver. He made the warning…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (275+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has formally objected to the appointment of Advocate Thandazani Madonsela SC as chief evidence leader in the parliamentary inquiry into his own possible impeachment, in a letter to Parliament dated 18 August. Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment committee, investigating the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (495+ words) Celani Sikhakhane brings you KwaZulu-Natal’s latest news Durban: Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has mocked the MK Party, joking that if it wins eThekwini, its mayor could be fired for taking former president Jacob Zuma a goat instead of…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (272+ words) Scrolla.Africa Podcast: Joburg Ready to Dump the ANC A new poll has the ANC at just 18% in Johannesburg, in the city that’s been its political heart since before 1994. Rob Rose and Zukile Majova are back for the twentieth episode…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (556+ words) • Professor Mathole Motshekga says Johannesburg needs a mayor who can improve services without pushing aside the city’s African culture and royal history. • The Democratic Alliance, Inkatha Freedom Party and Economic Freedom Fighters have named mayoral candidates while the African National…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (476+ words) The DA is promising what the ANC promised and failed to deliver, and the question is whether different hands can fix the same broken system, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. The Democratic Alliance launched its local government election manifesto…...