Politics

The new kid on the block, Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA, is pulling out all the stops to win the six municipalities it is contesting in the upcoming local elections.

Small scale farmers in KwaZulu-Natal have raised concerns about the proposed increase in the sugar tax which they described as a death knell to them.

The winner of the battle for the control of Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape is far from a foregone conclusion.

IFP Zululand district mayor Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi is being investigated by the police after allegedly spending R5 million on a business breakfast in Durban.

eThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda could find himself out in the cold after the local government elections with Thabani Nyawose waiting in the wings to take the city's top job.

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane is challenging Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report that found that he used R450,000 meant for the memorial service of the late struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to renovate his house.

If current election campaigns were a game of football, all of South Africa’s big four political parties would be scoring own goals left, right and centre.

A Mpumalanga councillor has revealed that he believes he was the intended target of a shooting on 22 August which resulted in the murders of three ANC members.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's backers are blaming Jacob Zuma supporters of sabotaging his KZN election campaign.

Christian Siebert Rorich, a bomb expert who detonated explosives that killed three members of Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and seriously injured one, appeared in the Kagiso Magistrate’s court on Tuesday.

Not only will former president Jacob Zuma not be in attendance for his own welcome home prayer gathering, but it’s not even going to take place at his home.

The disused art gallery of the infamous Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality in Komani, Eastern Cape was burnt down on Monday night.