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Uncharted waters for South Africa’s G20 as US throws new curveball
France and UK, two of the US’s historical allies, told journalists they plan to support South Africa’s agenda
Lamola accuses Trump of ‘white supremacy’
Minister raises stakes in CNN interview as tensions rise amid ‘white genocide’ narrative
Steenhuisen doubles down in rebuking Ramaphosa’s ‘Russia is our ally’ remark
DA leader says ANC no longer has a majority and does not get to set foreign policy without consulting others in GNU.
Inside ANC meetings with Afrikaners over Bela Act
Senior officials from basic education pushed back against the amendments suggested by the leaders of Afrikaner groupings.
Parliament orders shock health tests for staff
Everyone will have their urine, blood, eyesight and other functions checked ‘to comply with the law’
Steenhuisen’s picks for crucial ministerial jobs turned down
Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has been sent back to the drawing board to find suitably qualified candidates to appoint in his ministerial office after the department of public service & administration rejected his request to deviate from minimum appointment requirements.
No guard for the guardians in SA’s seventh parliament
Some 100 days after it was constituted, South Africa’s seventh democratic parliament has no structures in place to oversee the conduct of spooks and wayward MPs, including scrutiny on how the legislature spends its R4.4bn budget.
New rules to screen MPs mooted
This comes against the backdrop of recent moves by the MK Party in terms of which it supplemented its list of MPs to parliament by allegedly circumventing the law
Parliament a whole new ballgame for Mmusi Maimane
Ten years after first becoming an MP, BOSA’s Mmusi Maimane has returned to parliament only to find himself once again learning the ropes.






















