Almost R1 million was allegedly spent on foreign travel trips for the wife of former South African Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba… according to DA Shadow Minister of Finance, David Maynier. Maynier said in a press statement Thursday morning that while Gigaba was responsible for the implementation of cost containment measures in SA, and should have […]

Watch American journalist Dena Takruri summarise some of the history of Cape Town’s apartheid town planning… which still continues to haunt South Africa two decades later. In this episode of Direct From, for Al Jazeera’s AJ+, Dena shows how the divides exist not only between white and black but between ‘Coloured’ and black too… and how […]

Government will next week brief the media on developments around the centenary of South Africa’s founding President Nelson Mandela. The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC), appointed to manage the centenary, is scheduled to brief the nation on plans around the centenary on Tuesday. The year 2018 marks 100 years since the birth of Madiba and is commemorated […]

Last year the South African National Treasury proposed to double-tax SA expats living and working abroad for a period of longer than 183 days. The huge outcry that arose resulted in the National Treasury changing a certain aspect of the draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill, making the first R1 million of foreign remuneration exempt for […]

It was just four and a half months ago that Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa won the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) that governs South Africa. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Quiet, but decisive action. EPA-EFE/Andy Rain Pundits said at the time that the post-colonial narrative was fixed: the ANC was irredeemably corrupt, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma […]

The DA’s Dianne Kohler Barnard delivered a hard-hitting statement in the South African National Assembly on Tuesday, addressing the crisis of murders in the country – 52 per day… and specifically the ‘special type of murders’ that occur in rural areas. As she pointed out – with horrific and tragic examples – the brutal and […]

The South African government has approved two immediate interventions to restore order and stability in communities of the North West province. One of the interventions includes a task team of Ministers, which will be dispatched to visit the North West to establish the facts on the ground. The task team comprises the Ministers of Planning, […]

Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has come out boxing after tonight’s DA FedEx (Federal Executive) meeting in which an overwhelming number of councillors voted for the Motion of No Confidence (MONC) in her leadership. Ninety-seven councillors voted for the motion, 41 voted against, 15 abstained or were absent and there was one spoilt ballot. The […]

A video has emerged which claims to show armed farmers confronting protesters in Jan Kempdorp in South Africa last night. A video posted by Ncamim Maphalala to a group on FB at around midnight last night, ‎ says: “As I type this out there are armed white farmers confronting protesters in Jankempdorp in the North-West, with live ammunition!!! […]

In true “Thuma Mina” (Send Me) style, British Airways – operated by Comair – gave President Cyril Ramaphosa an unofficial inauguration and welcome aboard a flight from Durban to Johannesburg earlier this week… with an added poetic bonus. BA honoured the President by sending first-time flyer and praise poet, Lutendo Evans Mugagadeli, known as “Vendaboy […]

The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) said today that it is honoured to announce that former American President Barack Obama has accepted its invitation to be the speaker at this year’s The 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. The prestigious event will take place in Johannesburg on 17 July, ahead of Madiba’s birthday the following day (International […]

The African National Congress (ANC) says it will unveil plans tomorrow to reclaim the Western Cape Province. The ANC announced in a press release Sunday night, that tomorrow – Monday 23 April 2018 –  ANC Head of Elections, Fikile Mbalula, will unveil the party’s 2019 Elections plan to reclaim the much coveted Western Cape Province. […]

Mahikeng, the capital of the North West province in South Africa has been locked down for the past week. Schools and businesses have been unable to open as protests have turned violent with widespread looting. Residents are demanding the removal of Premier Supra Mahumapelo who they accuse of corruption and of not working to provide […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has pleaded with the residents of Mahikeng, in the North West province of South Africa, to give government and the political provincial leadership more time as they try and find lasting solutions to the unrest. The President who was in London, United Kingdom, for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which kicked […]

Former President Jacob Zuma is set to marry a young woman from Ballito in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, according to local reports. The woman, named in local media as Nonkanyiso Conco, allegedly gave birth to Zuma’s child in a Hillcrest hospital last week. Zuma apparently visited the mother and baby in hospital amidst tight security. It […]

A couple who has allegedly ripped off many South Africans, by posing as a legitimate travel agency… but pocketing the money for themselves, has been exposed by Carte Blanche. This Sunday’s episode is packed with this story and more… available to South Africans abroad from Tuesday 24 April 2018 if you subscribe to Showmax. Travel Cons […]

The African National Congress (ANC) confirmed in a media invite tonight that President Cyril Ramaphosa, will address an urgent meeting – on Friday 20 April 2018 – in the North West province. The South African President has cut short his #CHOGM2018 trip to London, to return to the volatile situation. “President Ramaphosa will be accompanied […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa is flying the flag high for South Africa in the UK this week… and being treated like a King, the only Commonwealth Head of State invited to Windsor Castle. British Labour politician Lord Peter Hain sung the South African President’s praises, tweeting this afternoon: “Inspiring speech at City of London Guildhall by Cyril […]

Adv Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecuting Unit, announced Thursday he will privately prosecute Julius Malema, and co-accused, for fraud and tender corruption… if South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) doesn’t reinstate the On-Point Engineering corruption case against Malema. On-Point, in which Malema’s family trust has a vested interest, was appointed in 2009 to […]

On Monday, before leaving for CHOGM in London, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the appointment of his Special Envoys for Investment – tasked with “hunting down” potential investors in SA – and announced the appointment of Trudi Makhaya as his new Economic Advisor. For those who have never heard of Trudi before, Sanele Zondi […]

At a Bilateral Meeting between President Rampahosa and British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday she pledged £50-million over the next four years, and said the UK is ready to support South Africa’s transformation. A Downing Street spokesperson said the British PM described the relationship between the UK and South Africa as “strong and deep, both […]

Queen Elizabeth II welcomed South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to Windsor Castle on Tuesday 17 April 2018, where she presented him with letters exchanged between her and former President Nelson Mandela. The letters between the British monarch and Madiba marked South Africa’s re-entry to the Commonwealth in 1994. President Ramaphosa is joined in the UK […]

A total of 510 people lost their lives across South African roads over the 2018 Easter period, Transport Minister Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday. Announcing the 2018 preliminary Easter Road Safety Report at Parliament’s Imbizo media centre, Minister Nzimande said the main contributory factors to road fatalities from 29 March to 9 April were related […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is “alarmed” by the six farm attacks which have occurred in South Africa in the last 72 hours. Dianne Kohler Barnard, DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Police, said in a media statement on Tuesday: “Attacks on anyone who lives on or visits a farm – have increased once again. […]

Twenty-four years into democracy and we still have people who live fearful because of what skin colour they were born with. Rituals and spiritual philosophies about albinism have led to brutal murders, especially of children. This is despite the campaigns initiated around South Africa to curb the attacks on people with albinism. It is no […]