Joburg councillor Colleen Makhubele says no one bribed her to vote against her coalition partners in the city’s multi-party government. She says she’s done it before and would do it again.
When will we cease to be Africans, coloureds, Indians and whites and merely be South Africans asks the IRR’s Michael Morris.
Moves are afoot in Parliament to change the country’s Electoral Act to allow for independent candidates to run for election.
It is more dangerous to be a farmer than a police officer in South Africa, a debate on farm murders heard in the National Assembly.
Here’s the inside story of the day President Jacob Zuma was forced into reversing his Finance Minister appointment of David Van Rooyen, replacing him with Pravin Gordhan, the man he had fired a year and a half earlier.
A South African panel that spent four years investigating allegations of corruption linked to about R46.7 billion worth of weapons purchased in the late 1990s found no evidence of wrongdoing by politicians or government officials.
President Jacob Zuma lived to lead South Africa for another day after a DA motion to have him removed failed by 243 votes to 133 in the National Assembly.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court tomorrow hands down a judgment which could lead to the impeachment of President Jacob Zuma.
As the State of the Nation captured attention of thousands of television viewers, so Donwald Pressly says it was down to some quite brilliant theatre.
A selection of newsworthy or quirky quotes heard this week made it into headlines – and most of them from the mouths of our politicians.