Author: Kgaogelo Magolego
Social grants have become a major talking point ahead of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections with parties either promising to increase or cut them if elected into power. For the first time there’s even a party whose identity is built around social grants. Basic Income Grant South Africa led by businessman Hendrick Kekana is advocating for the introduction of universal basic income grant which it believes is necessary to rescue millions of South Africans living below poverty line. Kekana said his party is not necessarily socialist in orientation but believes that a free market economy can thrive alongside a…
Former deputy president DD Mabuza believes the ANC remains the most popular political party in South Africa and should sail to victory seamlessly in the upcoming elections. Mabuza who has joined the list of veterans thrown into the party’s campaign ahead of the May 29 election on Wednesday campaigned in Alexandra, an ANC stronghold that has now seen the increased presence of the Economic Freedom Fighters. As Mabuza was interacting with voters in the streets coloured with mostly ANC and EFF posters, a group of fighters came out to tell him and his entourage that they were tired of empty…
Action SA Gauteng leader and Premier candidate Fundzi Ngobeni blames his hijacking and kidnapping on a lack of opportunities for South Africans under ANC rule. Ngobeni and the party’s youth forum chairperson Hluphi Gafane were allegedly abducted by three armed men in Olievenhoutbosch on Tuesday night and driven to an identified location where they were held for hours and robbed off their belongings. Ngobeni presented his offer to voters in Ivory Park hardly a day after being set free and said he is not going to allow the experience to derail his premiership campaign. He said the robbers moved them…
The Road Accident Fund has expressed frustration at being exploited by groupings such as lawyers, insurance companies and foreign nationals whom it says are taking advantage of loopholes in its founding act. CEO Collins Letsoalo briefed the media at the fund’s headquarters in Centurion where he announced the launch of a public campaign to find and assist hundreds of thousands people he said lodged claims before 2021 which are yet to be concluded owing to outstanding documents. Letsoalo said among other tricks employed by lawyers is deliberately keeping information supplied by claimants only to submit it at the eleventh hour…
As the sixth administration nears the end of its term of office, the government has defended President Cyril Ramaphosa’s performance saying he has delivered on most of the promises he made when he got into office in 2019. Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya briefed the media at the Union Buildings in Pretoria and among others shot down suggestions that investors may be losing confidence in South Africa. Magwenya cited the proposed BHP Billiton proposed takeover of Anglo-American as an example of baseless negative reporting about South Africa’s investment prospects. “The presidency has noted with concern the emerging narrative around the BHP…
Political parties used this year’s Freedom Day to intensify campaigning for the upcoming general elections with senior leaders deployed to various parts of the country to galvanise support. In Gauteng which is the most contested province following the ANC’s loss of support in the 2021 local government elections. While president delivered his official address from the Union Buildings while his deputy Paul Mashatile was campaigning for the ruling party in the Westrand. The EFF on the other hand used the day to demonstrate its organising ability with its Gauteng chapter holding massive rallies in Alexandra and Soweto and both addressed…
Former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto Wesizwe party has cited infiltration by external forces as reasons for the expulsion of founder Jabulani Khumalo who was party leader until he was recently replaced with Zuma. “In light of external attempts to destabilise the MK party who’s aim is to advance a revolution of the people,the National Leadership Core has taken a decision to expel the following comrades,” reads the statement.Among those who have been booted out alongside Khumalo is National Treasurer Lebo Moepeng, Ray Khumalo, Bheki Manzini and Rochelle Davidson. Zuma recently warned the party would weed out ill-disciplined elements and alleged…
The DA has singled out unemployment as the biggest problem in South Africa which it says was created by the ANC through poor policies and mismanagement of the economy. The party also accused the ruling party of creating an impression that the current high levels of joblessness were created by a “force of nature” and tabled its economic offer ahead of the much-anticipated general elections scheduled for May 29. Leader of the official opposition John Steenhuisen led the presentation of the policy offer alongside the party’s first deputy chairperson of the DA Federal Council Ashol Sarupen, Dion George, the party’s…
Former President Thabo Mbeki has expressed confidence that the ANC will be returned to power during the upcoming National and Provincial elections. Mbeki started his election campaign for the ruling party at Jabulani Mall after a decade and half absence since his removal from office in 2008. There was pandemonium when the former president went on a walkabout at the mall with shoppers pushing each other trying to get a glimpse of him amid heavy security presence. Mbeki was particularly confident that residents of Soweto will vote for the ANC in numbers. “I am here distributing these pamphlets and to…
The ANC has warned opposition parties that their hopes of taking over the province in the upcoming general elections will be dashed. Provincial Secretary TK Nciza spoke to Newsnote on the sidelines of the IEC code of conduct signing ceremony and dismissed the messaging of the opponents of the ruling party.“Everyone is campaigning on the basis that they must remove the ANC, not campaigning on the basis of what is it they can do for our people. That on its own is a weakness from their side but I don’t think they’ve picked it up,that they’ve been doing the same…