Author: Kgaogelo Magolego

City of Joburg Mayor Dada Morero easily fended off an attempt by the Democratic Alliance to remove him. The DA had hetched a plan to take over the city by removing him and installing former Mayor Kabelo Kwamanda whose removal it had instigated. The DA motion only received only 75 votes with those opposing it totalling 144 after the deal with Al Jamah ( Kwamanda’s party) allegedly fell off once it became apparent that the DA was simply unable to turn parties in the so called Government of Local Unity to turn against the mayor. Even Action SA which had…

Electricity has become simply unaffordable for many households in South Africa. This is according to the country’s electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa who addressed the media alongside Joburg Mayor Dada Morero. The minister said over and above ending loadshedding, the government will have to find a way of accommodating the poorest of the poor. “ So we are sitting with two big problems and the City Power Johannesburg episode isjust a manifestation of a bigger problem. Electricity is unaffordable.We can’t continue along this tariff path. We are getting to a situation here in the country where we see newdimensions of energy poverty. The…

The settlement agreement entered into by Eskom and the City of Joburg’s City Power has set a necessary precedent for resolving disputes among state institutions. This is according to electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa who announced the deal alongside Mayor Dada Morero ending a longstanding dispute between the two institutions resulting from disagreements over billing particularly during loadshedding. Ramokgopa commended the two institutions for agreeing to deal with the matter outside court. The minister said he has appointed the South African Energy Development Institute (Sanedi) to handle the dispute and present a technical report that will include recommendations on what should…

Action SA Leader Herman Mashaba had a tough encounter while on the campaign trail in Alexandra outside Johannesburg. While Mashaba was overwhelmed with service delivery frustrations that residents shared ( most of them visible) it was an insistence by a group that the community no longer want to support political parties that forced him to do a lot of explaining. “We vote for people to be councillors but once they are in office they start reporting to their political parties and not us, that’s why as a community we no longer support political parties and will be fielding our own…

Former uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s Secretary General has slammed all three political parties he was previously part of. The attack on the three ( ANC, EFF and MKP) comes as Shivambu prepares to launch his own political party. Shivambu announced during a media briefing in Midrand on thursday that he was forming his own political party also claiming he had been advised to do so by members from the three organisations. Shivambu said the three had no capacity to take the country forward as they lacked the desired leadership claiming that members were not speaking out in fear of reprisal. “Go…

MK activist and Tshwane Regional Organiser Mpho Morolane has come out strongly in defense of the party’s former Secretary General Floyd Shivambu who has announced he’s forming a new organisation with all indications being that he will be expelled from the party.Morolane attended Shivambu’s media briefing in Midrand on Thursday and said former EFF members who followed him when he dumped the red berets who find themselves in limbo should take responsibility for their own actions.Former EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is among those who were collateral damage as he fell out of favour with the party leadership for his association…

The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) leader Reverend Kenneth Meshoe has slammed the government of South Africa for condemning Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. Meshoe labelled South Africa’s criticism of Israel as hypocritical accusing Pretoria of having failed to condemn Iranian threats to the Jewish state over the years. “For decades, the Iranian regime has made it very clear for all the world to know that their ultimate goal is to completely annihilate the State of Israel. Neither South Africa nor the International Community have ever condemned Iran for such reprehensible threats and utterances. It is hypocritical for South…

Floyd Shivambu will soon be forming his own party. Shivambu was recently removed as Secretary General of uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) and said during a media briefing in Midrand that his removal as Secretary General was orchestrated by a corrupt faction he claimed surrounded former President Jacob Zuma. MKP cited Shivambu’s controversial trip to fugitive Sherphard Bushiri’s church in Malawi as reason for what was essentially a demotion (to being a member of parliament) at the time but on Thursday he rubbished that alleging 2 bogus intelligence reports were used to justify his removal and planned expulsion from the party.…

The City of Joburg says the tarrif hikes it plans on implementing next month are unavoidable. The municipality announced that among others the cost of electricity will increase by 12.74 percent, water by 13,9 percent, property rates will go up by 4.6 percent. “Tarrifs are the lifeblood of local government finances. They make it possible for the city to clean our streets, electrify informal settlements, maintain infrastructure, and expand all services,” said Finance MMC Margret Arnolds during a briefing on Wednesday. Arnolds said the city took the prevailing economic situation and its effects on the various constituencies it serves. “We also recognise…

Floyd Shivambu is set to soon unveil a new political party after falling out of favour in uMkhonto weSizwe party which until recently he served as Secretary General. Shivambu’s removal by MKP follows months of speculation that started when he was insulted on social media by Duduzile Zuma-Sambutha who is one of the party’s MPs and former President Jacob Zuma’s daughter. While MKP cited Shivambu’s Easter visit to fugitive Sherphard Bushiri’s church in Malawi. MKP said the visit had brought the party into disrepute forcing it to demote remove Shivambu and deploy him to parliament where he’s yet to be…