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Leaders of the Diepsloot Community Forum have committed to suspending demonstrations following a meeting with the office of the President in Pretoria today. After initially being barred from entering South Africa's official seat of government premises, a delegation of about 14 community leaders was finally granted access. They had descended on the Union Buildings to give President Cyril Ramaphosa a formal letter of demands from the community. While the President […]

The African National Congress (ANC) says it will not surrender its cadre deployment minutes to the Democratic Alliance (DA). The governing party had until the end of business today to submit the minutes dating back to January 2013 when President Cyril Ramaphosa was still chairing the deployment committee. The ANC has instead decided to channel the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on the matter. Last week, the High Court in […]

Political Analyst, Dr Sam Koma, says the ANC and EFF coalition in Johannesburg has failed to provide credible leadership in South Africa's economic hub. The political expert says the latest accusations against Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda are concerning. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority is investigating Gwamanda for allegedly swindling some residents their monies through an illegal funeral scheme. Koma says Gwamanda will have no choice but to vacate the seat should […]

Tete Morena Dijana is set to continue to work as a security guard despite winning close to R2 million at the Comrades Marathon. He walked away with R500 000 for winning the race; R500 000 for breaking the record, R200 000 as the first South African man over the finish line and R500 000 from his home province of the North West. The 35-year-old edged Piet Wiersma to win the 2023 […]

Former G4S employees are calling for the suspension of some senior officials at the Mangaung Maximum Prison who are alleged to have been involved in the Thabo Bester escape saga. The former employees marched to the facility where the Facebook rapist and murderer escaped in May last year. They say three senior G4S officials are implicated in the matter, but they have not been dealt with. The British-owned company that […]

Rise Mzansi's Youth Mobilisation Coordinator, Lawrence Manaka, says he believes that young people have not completely opted out of politics, but rather out of the political party system. Manaka's remarks come as South Africa gears up for the 2024 national elections, which come amid concerns that 14 million young South Africans eligible to vote did not register to vote in the 2021 local government polls. Young people make up 35% […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa continues to maintain that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine should be settled through negotiation and diplomatic means. In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa says the presidents of the two warring countries, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin have agreed to further engagements. Ramaphosa and several African heads of state descended on the two countries in a bid to facilitate peace talks in the 16-month-long conflict. […]

Today South Africa commemorates Youth Day, in honour of thousands of black students in Soweto who took to the streets this day in 1976 in protest against the apartheid government’s Bantu education system, which they slated as unjust and inferior compared to that of their white counterparts. The decree that Afrikaans had to be used as a medium of instruction in township schools was at the core of the protest. […]

Nothing amazes me more than seeing people who have gone through a life-changing experience from which they logically ought to be the primary source to tell all about it, finding themselves reduced to being students who ought to be taught how it was like to be oppressed. More bewildering is seeing authors of oppression and descendant beneficiaries going an extra mile to teach democracy to those they were active in […]