Politics

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a four-day mourning period following the passing of South Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Klerk last week.

As the deal-making between political parties attempting to form coalition governments in hung municipalities goes on, the voter is looking increasingly like they are on the losing side.

The senior manager of the National Youth Development Agency in Zululand has accused the late leader of the Zulu regiments of carrying out killings in Durban in the 1990s.

Acting Vhavenda king Toni Mphephu has been dealt a severe blow by the Constitutional Court.

King Misuzulu kaZwelithini is taking a second wife from ESwatini and the lobola negotiations are already underway.

The IFP is facing a revolt in some municipalities due to infighting over mayoral positions, forcing several councils to postpone the swearing-in of new representatives.

ANC staff members especially those in the Western Cape and at Luthuli House are facing a bleak Christmas as the ruling party has not paid their salaries for four months.

A would-be ANC councillor was gunned down hours after being called up to testify at the party’s provincial dispute committee this week.

The Zulu royal battle over the throne almost reduced the funeral of the former Zulu regiment leader Mgilija kaZihogo Zelanga Nhleko into a fist fight.

The ANC faces allegations that over 90% of the candidates on the party’s list of municipal councillors in the Waterberg district in Limpopo have faced criminal charges - either prior or ongoing.

The first council meeting at Umngeni Municipality, the only municipality run by the DA in KwaZulu-Natal, collapsed on Friday.

Before dying, FW de Klerk recorded a video of himself apologising for apartheid.