# Communications and Digital Technologies minister Solly Malatsi has rejected claims that the failure to provide additional funding for the SABC’s Local Government Election coverage was deliberate. The SABC says it is ready for the November 4 polls, despite financial challenges. It has requested 120-million-rand from National Treasury to support election coverage. Malatsi says there […]
# Die DA het vier burgemeesterskandidate aangekondig vir munisipaliteite in die Oos-Kaap waar die ANC kandidaatlyste vir die plaaslike verkiesing nie betyds ingedien het nie. Karen Smith sal in Sondagsriviervallei meeding, Matthee Nel in Walter Sisulu, Mbongeni Kotana in Port St Johns en Star Mvuyane in Ingquza Hill. Dit bring die DA se aantal provinsiale […]
# The DA has announced four mayoral candidates in Eastern Cape municipalities where the ANC failed to submit candidate lists before the deadline for the local government elections. Karen Smith will contest Sundays River Valley, Matthee Nel for Walter Sisulu, Mbongeni Kotana for Port St Johns, and Star Mvuyane for Ingquza Hill. This brings DA […]
# Die ANC sê die DA en ActionSA het die Stad Johannesburg se finansieringsplan vir sy kapitaalprogram versper. Hy sê dit sou help om infrastruktuurprojekte vir elektrisiteit, water, paaie en vervoer te finansier as deel van ‘n program van 25-miljard-rand. ANC-woordvoerder Mantombi Nkosi sê die twee partye kan nie kla oor kragonderbrekings, wateronderbrekings en slaggate, […]
# The ANC says the DA and ActionSA blocked the City of Johannesburg’s funding plan for its capital programme. It says the plan would help fund infrastructure projects in electricity, water, roads and transport, as part of an estimated 25-billion-rand programme. The ANC’s Mantombi Nkosi says the DA and ActionSA cannot complain about power cuts, […]
# Die Globale Veldtog teen Transnasionale Georganiseerde Misdaad sê as politieke sluipmoorde geïgnoreer word, verskraal dit demokratiese keuse, benadeel plaaslike regering en laat misdadigers toe om te besluit wie die mag het. Twee-en-veertig mense is reeds vanjaar dood in vermeende politieke sluipmoorde in Suid-Afrika in aanloop tot die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing – die meeste in KwaZulu-Natal, […]
# The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime says political assassinations, if left unchecked, will narrow democratic choice, corrode local government, and allow criminal governance to decide who can hold power. Forty-two people have been murdered in suspected political assassinations in South Africa this year, ahead of the local government elections. Most political killings have […]
# Die DA het die Kaapstadse politikus AbdulKader Elyas se lidmaatskap beëindig nadat ‘n interne ondersoek bevind het hy het vals inligting oor sy kwalifikasies verskaf. Hy het in 2024 skuld erken op vyf dissiplinêre aanklagte wat daarmee verband hou, maar is toegelaat om in die party te bly. Die DA se regskommissie het later […]
# The DA has expelled Cape Town politician AbdulKader Elyas after an internal investigation found he had given false information about his qualifications. Elyas admitted to five disciplinary charges over his qualifications in 2024 but was allowed to stay in the party. The DA’s legal commission later recommended his expulsion, which was approved by the […]
