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Outrage mounts over DA’s Phoenix campaign posters – but are they fake?
The Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal has summoned a hasty meeting over its election campaign posters which have caused outrage on social media.
Calls mount for officials involved in the R15m Eastern Cape sports stadium to be axed
Officials from the Enoch Mgijima municipality scored an own goal after the launch of a R15 million sub-standard sporting facility to woo voters backfired.
Malawi’s richest man sentenced to nine years in prison with hard labour for bribery
The High Court in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre has sentenced the country’s richest man, Dr. Thomson Mpinganjira, to nine years imprisonment with hard labour.
Jacob Zuma pleads with KZN backers to vote for the ANC
There is no love lost between the current government and Jacob Zuma, but the former president has nonetheless implored his backers not to boycott the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal in the upcoming local elections.
Is it the end of the road for non-racialism?
The failure of highly qualified Judge David Unterhalter to make it onto the Constitutional Court has prompted some caustic remarks about the state of race politics from Daily Maverick Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee.
Son of the late NFP leader accused of turning party into a “family organisation”
The son of the late National Freedom Party leader Zanele kaMagwaza Msibi has become embroiled in a dispute over the party’s list of councillor nominees for the upcoming elections.
Shock inclusions among the eight Chief Justice hopefuls
With Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s term ending next week, the race for his replacement is heating up.
ActionSA cries foul after IEC omits party name in Gauteng ballots
Former Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba’s political party, ActionSA, is heading to court after the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) gave “unsatisfactory reasons” for excluding party names in the ballot paper designs.
Axed ANC councillor Penisi who called protesters “uncircumcised boys” is standing again
Last year Lindelwa Penisi was fired as the ANC Chief Whip in Raymond Mhlaba Municipality for calling protesting community members “uncircumcised boys”.
Shack dwellers furious as eThekwini Municipality forks out millions on sports sponsorship
Shack dwellers association Abahlali baseMjondolo is threatening to protest against the ANC, following the decision of eThekwini Municipality to spend over R54 million of its budget to sponsor Durban-based sports teams.
Zuma will be a no-show at his welcome back party in Nkandla
Jacob Zuma’s supporters can go to his Nkandla homestead to welcome him back from jail, but they will not even catch a glimpse of him.
Lockdown knocked down to level one as country emerges from pandemic’s deadliest wave
President Cyril Ramaphosa has eased the lockdown rules to alert level 1 from Thursday midnight.