So far the DA has only been in the GNU to help the ANC get on with its business. Its participation has yet to translate to any influence in policy direction.
The video of the president outside the recently raided Maumela mansion has not made the situation any better for him.
The power struggles at the top risk further eroding whatever little public trust the police service enjoys.
If it could not get it right then, how is it going to succeed with this plan when its Government of National Unity partners have yet to give it the green light?
This is certainly not the first nor the last hospital or public entity that will enrich politicians and their friends so long as no one is placed behind bars.
Ramaphosa effectively proved his critics right when he recently campaigned against the ANC with his remarks that his organisation could learn a lot from how the ...
MPs have rejected the DA-led provincial government's plan to dissolve the Knysna Municipality, citing a lack of exceptional circumstances.
McKenzie’s argument that he is a victim of a political campaign aimed at ending his career can be best described as a cheap attempt to escape accountability.
A policing system that chooses when to be effective only widens the trust deficit between police and the communities.
A senior government official who insults the people he is supposed to be serving should be nowhere near state resources.
When a senior party leader steps down over internal squabbles such as those cited by Mathabatha, it’s a signal that the renewal process is nothing but rhetoric. ...
The ANC Ramphosa leads is so detached from the realities confronting poor South Africans
Hard to believe that today we are having to dig for answers from a president who promised a government characterised by transparency.
How do we expect a person who was part of the problem to be responsible for solutions?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Buti Manamela as the new Minister of Higher Education.
President Ramaphosa's decision to place Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on special leave raises urgent questions about the integrity of South Africa's police force ...
What this moment calls for is bold leadership, something that has become foreign in our government.
Phala Phala will not be the only stain that taints his leadership. How he acts on the Mchunu matter may make or break his legacy.
She must tell the families of the victims of the Eastern Cape floods why the SANDF only responded to the disaster seven days after having been called to assist. ...
Its role in opposition benches was more effective than it is in this current government.
For example the province was hit by deadly flooding in 2021, 2022 and in 2023, with damage to infrastructure amounting to billions of rand.
Recent history demands that we, as a country, should remain alive to any attempts, no matter how small, by foreign elements to dictate the direction South Africa ...
Instead of dispelling Trump’s false narrative of white genocide in South Africa, he continued his party’s tired claim that there were farm murders here, indirectly ...
The ANC said the engagement between Trump and Ramaphosa reaffirmed the centrality of diplomacy, mutual respect, and the truth in building durable relations between ...
Meeting reaffirmed the centrality of diplomacy, mutual respect, and the truth in building durable relations between nations, says the party.