The Democratic Alliance has criticised the lack of action being taken by EC premier Oscar Mabuyane in response to the revelations of major fraud in the procurement of personal protection equipment (PPE). As previously reported by the…
More than 3‚500 applications have been made for the R150m relief fund made available by the Department of Sports‚ Arts and Culture. On exactly 3‚500‚ that would work out to just more than R42‚000 per application. The department said in a…
The SABC continues to sink deeper into financial crisis and is now unable to pay some of its service providers and producers. The crisis has affected key production houses that produce popular shows for the SABC. SABC CEO Madoda Mxakwe…
Public hospitals have become a death-trap for the poor‚ says Refiloe Nt’sekhe of the Democratic Alliance. The party has produced this checklist of the top eight problems that it says require urgent intervention‚ following inspection…
DA Eastern Cape MPL Veliswa Mvenya has resigned from the party. But‚ the DA veteran says about her shock resignation‚ this is not the end of her political career. “I am not retiring from politics‚ I’m just taking a break‚” she said on…
The closure of major taxi routes where ongoing conflict has claimed more than 60 lives in the Eastern Cape will hurt taxi owners’ finances and affect commuters over the Easter weekend. (*** NOTE: Changes top of story‚ adds comment from…
BY GENEVIEVE QUINTAL President Jacob Zuma has bet his future on a bewildering roll of the legal dice. In a staggering about-turn on Thursday, Zuma has asked for a new opportunity to make representations to the National Prosecuting…
The DA’s federal executive committee has suspended councillor Sharon Peetz‚ the City of Johannesburg’s fired member of the mayoral committee for economic development‚ from party activities pending the outcome of an investigation by the…
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has called on President Jacob Zuma to suspend National Prosecuting Authority boss Shaun Abrahams‚ accusing the country’s chief prosecutor of being politically compromised. Maimane said he had…
Despite the South African government calling protests scheduled for today “illegal”, organisations in Buffalo City Metro (BCM) are going ahead with a planned march calling for the president to step down. The Democratic Alliance in the…
It would be too time-consuming to respond to every distortion, misrepresentation or falsehood that has been published relating to my series of 12 tweets on lessons learned from my recent visit to Singapore. One of those lessons was that…
