Build One South Africa (BOSA) will launch its 2026 Local Government Election Manifesto at Fairview Primary School in Johannesburg on Saturday morning, with party leader Mmusi Maimane set to deliver the keynote address. The party says its manifesto will focus on building well-run, accountable and financially responsible municipalities ahead of
The Western Cape High Court has reserved judgment in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s application to review and set aside the Section 89 Independent Panel report into the Phala Phala farm scandal. The three-day hearing centred on the panel’s November 2022 finding that there was prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa had a
The ANC is preparing to challenge the Electoral Commission’s decision to exclude some of its candidates from the 4 November local government elections, with the party set to approach the Electoral Court. President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed the move today, Friday while campaigning in Tembisa. The dispute centres on candidates whose
National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza has rejected the MK Party’s call for Rise Mzansi MP Makashule Gana to be removed as chair of the Section 89 Impeachment Committee. MK parliamentary leader John Hlophe wrote to Didiza asking her to set aside Gana’s 1 June election, arguing that Rise Mzansi’s place
The legal battle over the Balobedu throne entered its third day in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today, Friday, as members of the Modjadji Royal Family pressed their challenge to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recognition of Queen Masalanabo Modjadji VII as monarch. The applicants, including the Queen’s uncle and
President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate five contracts awarded by the Eastern Cape Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, amid allegations of maladministration, corruption, fraud, and irregular expenditure. The mandate is contained in Proclamation 344 of 2026. The SIU may examine how the tenders
National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza has ruled that the election of ANC MP Mzimasi Hala to replace Malusi Gigaba as National Assembly co-chairperson of Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) was not procedurally correct. In a letter responding to an urgent complaint from the Economic Freedom Fighters, Didiza said
Advocate Dali Mpofu SC told the Western Cape High Court today, Friday that President Cyril Ramaphosa is “unsaveable” until he explains what hundreds of thousands of dollars were doing in a couch at Phala Phala and that the court has no power to set aside the report that put him
President Cyril Ramaphosa has come under renewed pressure in the Western Cape High Court after an opposition lawyer argued that the president gave an unlawful instruction when he reported the theft of US dollars from his Phala Phala farm to the head of his presidential protection unit. Advocate Kessler Perumalsamy,
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has officially confirmed the dismissal of suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major General Feroz Khan from the police service. National SAPS spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed on Wednesday that Khan was deemed dismissed in terms of Regulation 9(7)(b) of the SAPS Discipline Regulations. The
