Former president Thabo Mbeki calls on Cyril Ramaphosa and senior ANC leaders to take responsibility for the party’s poor electoral performance. The ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is meeting on Thursday at the Birchwood Conference Centre in Boksburg to assess the party’s performance in the 2026 Local Government Elections, which saw its national electoral support fall to a historic low. The meeting comes amid mounting pressure on the party’s leadership, following former president Thabo Mbeki’s calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa…
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has called for accelerated national action to modernise the disaster management framework and strengthen support to municipalities to mitigate against the escalating disaster incidents affecting communities across the country. This after the Head of the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC), Dr Elias Sithole classified a national disaster due to a severe weather condition which resulted in deadly floods across parts of the country with Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and North West mostly…
The ANC Tshwane Regional Executive has expressed confidence ahead of Wednesday’s by-election in Ward 57 in Centurion, where the party hopes to unseat the Democratic Alliance. The ward became vacant following the death of a DA councillor. Speaking on the sidelines of the final leg of campaigning, ANC Tshwane regional spokesperson Joel Masilela ka Mahlangu said the party had run a strong campaign and received positive feedback from residents in what has long been a DA stronghold. “You definitely don’t…
About 400 families from the Sporong informal settlement in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg, say they were forced to flee their homes following repeated and violent attacks by illegal miners. Residents allege that the miners regularly broke into their homes, demanding money and other valuables. They claim their lives were turned into a nightmare, with the attackers threatening to kidnap their children for ransom if they failed to comply. Zanele Morapedi described some of the terrifying experiences endured by the community.…