Category: Political News

Gauteng MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and CoGTA Lebogang Maile, has reversed with immediate effect the suspension of both the DA’s Speaker of the City of Johannesburg, Councillor Vasco Da Gama and current Speaker of the City of Tshwane Katlego Mathebe.

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The ANC has defended its decision to propose a new change to the land expropriation without compensation plan.  

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The DA has confirmed that it has submitted an urgent application to the High Court to suspend Gauteng COGTA MEC Lebogang Maile’s decision to suspend City of Tshwane speaker, Katlego Mathebe, and former City of Johannesburg speaker, Vasco da Gama.

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The DA will conduct a site visit to the abandoned Kempton Park Hospital in the East of Johannesburg on Monday, on the first leg of what the party calls the “real state of the nation tour” around the country.

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The SACP says the ANC has not backtracked on its position of land reform. This follows a newspaper report that the ANC is now proposing that the minister and not the courts must have unlimited powers on the expropriation of land without compensation.

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Cosatu in the Free State has endorsed the continuation of the shutdown by angry residents over the chronic water crisis in Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality in Qwaqwa.

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The African National Congress (ANC) in the North West has ordered the provincial government to speed up delivery of services.

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ANC KwaZulu-Natal Chairperson Sihle Zikalala has told party supporters, at a rally to celebrate the ANC’s 108th provincial anniversary, that it is important for the party to remember why it had embarked on the struggle.

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United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa says his party in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in the Eastern Cape has welcomed the proposed talks about the establishment of a new coalition government.

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The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) hopes that establishment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) desk by the party will assist in the fight to end gender based violence (GBV).

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Former Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane, says he’s not targeting members from any specific political party.

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Fledgling party, the African Transformation Movement (ATM), is already gearing up to contest 2021 local government elections.

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Former Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane has called on community members to hold public representatives accountable for challenges in society.

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Articulating the party’s vision African Transformation Movement leader Vuyo Zungula said his party would be pushing to ensure that South Africans are participants rather than observers in the economy.

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The ANC in the North West has blamed fighting among its deployees at municipalities for the instability in local governance.

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African Transformation Movement leader Vuyo Zungula has slammed National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise’s decision to approve a motion to institute proceedings to investigate Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office. 

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