# Acting minister of Social Development, Sindisiwe Chikunga, says government is committed to strengthening child protection measures against child sexual exploitation, statutory rape and online threats against children. She tabled the department’s 302-billion-rand budget for the 2026/2027 financial year in Parliament yesterday. Chikunga stressed the importance of protecting the vulnerable and strengthening communities across South Africa:
# President Cyril Ramaphosa will today undertake a two-day state visit to Botswana, for the sixth session of the South Africa-Botswana Bi-National Commission in Gaborone. The primary objective of the state visit is to deepen and strengthen the existing bilateral partnership between the two countries. South Africa is Botswana’s largest trading partner, accounting for over […]
# MK Party leader Jacob Zuma has suspended the membership of Nhlamulo Ndlela, pending the outcome of an internal investigation. This comes after he was removed as the party’s national spokesperson following accusations that he misrepresented the MK Party at the launch of their new Leadership Institute. Ndlela faces allegations of misconduct, sowing divisions, and […]
# Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia says the work of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry is supporting efforts to strengthen accountability within policing. The commission is investigating criminality, political interference, and corruption in the criminal justice system, arising from allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in July 2025. Cachalia says most of the […]
# Die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, Gayton McKenzie, sê die Patriotic Alliance sal nie stem om president Cyril Ramaphosa in ʼn staat van beskuldiging te plaas nie. Die Parlement het ʼn ampsklagkomitee van 31 lede aangestel om te bepaal of hy sy ampseed oortree het. Dit hou verband met die inbraak in 2020 […]
# Die teen-apartheidsaktivis eerwaarde Frank Chikane sê hy moes baie verduur onder die hand van apartheidsera-veiligheidstakbeamptes. Hy het gister voor die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie-ondersoek getuig, wat vertragings in die vervolging van apartheidsera-misdade ondersoek. In 1989 het hy vergiftiging deur staatsagente oorleef terwyl hy as die hoofsekretaris van die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Kerke gedien het. Chikane […]
# Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, says his party, the Patriotic Alliance, will not vote to impeach president Cyril Ramaphosa. Parliament has established a 31-member impeachment committee to look into whether the president violated his oath of office. This is in relation to the burglary at his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo […]
# Anti-apartheid activist reverend Frank Chikane says he endured a lot at the hands of apartheid-era Security Branch officers. He testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases inquiry yesterday, which is probing delays in prosecuting apartheid-era crimes. In 1989, he survived poisoning by apartheid state operatives while serving as the general secretary of the South […]
# The National Arts Festival has unveiled its 2026 music programme, promising two weekends of Afro-pop, gospel, jazz and pan-African performances in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape. The festival will run from 25 June to 5 July and will feature artists including Nomfundo Moh, Nontokozo Mkhize, Msaki, the Soweto String Quartet, as well as Standard […]
