The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has swiftly moved to prevent a total split with the South African National Civic Organisation, the fourth member of the alliance. Yesterday, the party met with the civic organization’s leadership to iron out their differences and map a way forward following last week’s “divorce.” The meeting over the matter continued today (Monday) and it was joined by COSATU and the SACP in the province. The meeting was called after last week SANCO announced that it was…

A leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in KwaZulu-Natal has made bold claims that during the negotiations, the ANC focused on managing white fears and abandoned black people. Themba Mthembu who is the provincial secretary of the communist party also claimed that the coalition the country has now was hatched back in 1986 during the early stages of the negotiations between the ANC and the apartheid government. Mthembu made these claims on Thursday during a roundtable discussion organized…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of measures to combat the deadly food poisoning that has killed 22 schoolchildren and left scores of others hospitalised nationwide.  He ordered the closure of all implicated spaza shops and gave shop owners 21 days to register their businesses with local municipalities or face shutdown. Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Friday following the food poisoning crisis. He said this was to curb the increase in food-borne illnesses and deaths. He confirmed…

uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) President Jacob Zuma has appointed Floyd Shivambu as Secretary General a few months after joining South Africa’s third biggest party.  Shivambu, the EFF’s former deputy president and the party’s co-founder, takes over from Dr Sifiso Maseko, who resigned in October to resume his duties in the Gauteng Department of Health. Shivambu shockingly left the EFF in August amid a fallout with party leader Julius Malema, who later accused him of betrayal. He was later appointed the…

Multitudes of people thronged the National Stadium in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city, on Friday to witness the inauguration of Duma Boko as the southern African country’s sixth president. Boko promised that his government would create a brighter tomorrow with support from the citizens during the ceremony. “We will create the Botswana we all desire. You have given me strength and hope, and I am prepared to return strength and hope to you a thousandfold. I say to you, dare to…

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU), assisted by the Hawks and the South African Police Service, raided the JB Marks Local Municipality in the North West Province on Thursday in connection with alleged tender irregularities and fraud. The SIU is investigating allegations of serious maladministration regarding the construction of a flood line canal next to the N12 provincial road and Ikageng extension 11. The raid comes after the Potchefstroom Magistrate Court granted the unit a warrant to search the municipality’s premises,…

Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Chairperson, Advocate Dali Mpofu, has left the EFF to join the recently formed Umkhonto WeSizwe (MK) Party. In an interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Thursday morning, Mpofu said he is joining the MK Party because it represents a broader vision for decolonization and total liberation. Mpofu explained that he believes the MK Party is best positioned to bring about the unity he envisions for South Africa. “I am of the view…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has criticized members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity (GNU) Cabinet for allegedly lacking executive accountability, claiming they have failed to adequately respond to parliamentary questions. Julius Malema’s party said Cabinet ministers had failed to respond to half of the questions within the stipulated time. In some instances, they did not even bother entertaining written questions from Members of Parliament.  In a statement released on Tuesday, November 05th, the EFF accused GNU Ministers…

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has been voted out after ruling the country for 58 years since independence from Britain in 1966. The BDP lost the 2024, general elections, held on October 30, to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), marking a historic shift in Botswana’s political landscape. On November 1, President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat, announcing his support for the incoming President, Duma Gideon Boko of the UDC, during a press briefing in Gaborone. Masisi also stated that he…

Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader John Steenhuisen’s claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa represented himself when he described Russian Leader Vladimir Putin as South Africa’s “valuable ally” are “silly” and show that the party is still pursuing the apartheid government’s foreign policy. According to Andre Thomashausen, a Professor Emeritus of International and Comparative Law at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and the former Head of the university’s Department of Public, Constitutional and International Law, Steenhuisen’s assertions also proved that South Africa’s…