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ANC councillors reject Ramaphosa's call to follow DA

DA federal chairperson Helen Zille has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's suggestion that her party's record in local government should serve as a model for ANC councillors, saying she hopes the whole country will take notice.However, so…

Published: 13 hrs ago | 307 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa's nephew loses R326m in corruption crackdown

The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has frozen assets worth R326 million belonging to Hangwani Morgan Maumela, the alleged ringleader of a syndicate that looted Tembisa Hospital through fraudulent co…

Published: 17 hrs ago | | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa posts explicit videos on X

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa's official X account (@CyrilRamaphosa) briefly published explicit videos on Friday during his oversight visit to the North West province, sparking a social media uproar and fresh questions about gover…

Published: 13 Sep 2025 at 18:17hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's urban cash transfer scheme collapses

In the heart of Bulawayo, where daily life is already defined by struggle, the collapse of the government's Urban Cash Transfer Programme has left families facing deepening hunger and despair. Once hailed as a safety net for the most vulne…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:37hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter

White SA party criticises Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe land reform praise

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has strongly criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa's remarks praising Zimbabwe's land reform programme during his visit to Harare last week.IOL reported last week that Ramaphosa was in Zimbabwe at the invitation…

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:36hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter

Mwaruwari urges ZIFA to prioritise junior national teams

Former Warriors captain has called on the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) to place greater emphasis on junior national teams, highlighting their importance as the foundation for future senior squads. The former player expressed concer…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 09:31hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa lauds Zimbabwe's agricultural transformation

Zimbabwe's agricultural sector has earned high praise from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who said his country could learn valuable lessons from the nation's advances. President Ramaphosa visited Zimbabwe to officially open the 1…

Published: 31 Aug 2025 at 09:31hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa expected in Zimbabwe

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow officially open the 115th edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (ZAS) in Harare, marking a major highlight on the national events calendar.This year's exhibition is being held under…

Published: 28 Aug 2025 at 22:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa to officially open Zimbabwe Agricultural Show

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected in Harare this Friday to officially open the 115th edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (ZAS), the country's largest annual trade exhibition.The week-long event, which began on Monda…

Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 08:03hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter

WATCH: Naledi Pandor blames Ramaphosa

Former International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor said that the African National Congress (ANC) has lost its glory and South Africans now look on the former liberation movement with "disdain".Pandor said that the party …

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 23:02hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter

Failed state warning for South Africa

Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) chief executive Busi Mavuso says that businesses cannot function properly in a failed state, but partnering with the government to fix its failures comes at a steep cost.The key signals of a failed s…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 10:10hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa's emails hacked by SAPS crime intelligence

The SAPS' crime intelligence (CI) division has been fingered as the culprits who hacked President Cyril Ramaphosa's emails while he was serving as deputy president.  The unit was fingered in an affidavit deposed to by police whis…

Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 15:11hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter

'South African govt complicit in xenophobic violence'

Zimbabwean human rights activist Duke Maplanka Atterbell has accused the South African government of systemic discrimination against foreign nationals, particularly Zimbabweans, and of failing to address rising xenophobic violence and excl…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 09:05hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter

Attention-seeking Zondo slams Ramaphosa

Attention-seeking former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa for making politicians with serious findings against them Cabinet Ministers.The commission was created to investigate allegations that powerful indi…

Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 12:24hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter

Zanuâ€“PF warns South Africa against US sanctions

Zimbabwe's ruling party (ZANUâ€“PF) says South Africa should not be intimidated by a proposed US bill that could empower President Donald Trump with "superpowers" to impose sanctions on African National Congress (ANC) leaders.ZANUâ€“PF spo…

Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 16:34hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter

Mthwakazi doorsteps Ramaphosa over denied health services

Matabeleland-based secessionist political outfit, the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), on Friday petitioned South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling for urgent intervention to stop the barring of Zimbabwean nationals from accessing …

Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:28hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa kicks the can down the road

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, a key political ally instrumental in Ramaphosa's rise to the presidency in 2017, amid allegations of collusion with criminal syndicates. This decision come…

Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 08:02hrs | 1533 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa, Mabuza did not have a good relationship

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's skipping the private burial of former Deputy President David Mabuza was a telltale sign that the two did not have a good relationship. This was according to political analyst, Ntsikelelo Breakfast, who also…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 20:44hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa flies into a storm

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to return from the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro into a storm of controversy sparked by damning allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanaz…

Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 10:38hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa fires stinging rebuke at gogo Helen's DA

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will "not yield to threats and ultimatums" in a stinging rebuke to the second biggest party in his coalition government.Ramaphosa drew the Democratic Alliance's (DA) ire after he removed Depu…

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 16:35hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa gets a R26.5bn World Bank loan

The World Bank has approved a $1.5 billion (approximately R26.5 billion) loan to support structural reforms aimed at boosting South Africa's infrastructure.The Washington-based lender said in a statement the operation will address the nati…

Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 10:14hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter

Trump challenges Ramaphosa to arrest Julius Malema

United States President Donald Trump has called for the arrest of South African political leader Julius Malema over his use of the controversial "Kill the Boer" chant, escalating already strained relations between the two countries.Trump m…

Published: 21 May 2025 at 20:21hrs | 2397 | by Staff reporter

Malema's EFF slams Johann Rupert's state capture project

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has come out strongly against the inclusion of billionaire businessman Johann Rupert in a South African delegation set to meet former United States President Donald Trump, labelling the move as a "spit i…

Published: 21 May 2025 at 12:37hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter

Johann Rupert's state capture 2.0

In a significant development on the diplomatic front, Johann Rupert, South Africa's wealthiest man, is reportedly in Washington, DC, potentially accompanying President Cyril Ramaphosa for a pivotal meeting with US President Donald Trump.Ac…

Published: 21 May 2025 at 08:07hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter

Patrice Motsepe to buy ANC next Presidency?

Senior ANC members want to convince the billionaire Patrice Motsepe to make himself available to stand as the party's next president.Rapport cited two well-placed sources who said many ANC members have been trying to convince Motsepe to en…

Published: 18 May 2025 at 13:37hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter

South Africa reverses VAT increase that threatened ANC-DA coalition

Enoch Godongwana's decision came after the second-biggest party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), threatened to quit the government, warning a VAT hike would hurt the poor the most.Godongwana, a member of President Cyril Ramaphosa's African N…

Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:42hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa to appoint Afrikaner as SA ambassador to US

The ANC is divided over President Cyril Ramaphosa considering the appointment of a white Afrikaner as the new South African Ambassador to the United States. According to highly placed sources within the party, the move is seen as an attemp…

Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:55hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter

Social unrest warning in South Africa

Critical issues such as the government's overreliance on taxes and the deterioration of basic services threaten social unrest in South Africa. Renowned economist Dawie Roodt warned that the government's overreliance on taxes is the first i…

Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 12:33hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter

Man convicted for undeclared US dollars yet Ramaphosa walks free

THE conviction and sentencing of Mohammed Ameen who was caught with over half a million of undeclared US dollars has fueled African Transformation Movement's (ATM) determination to ensure that President Ramaphosa answers for the Phala Phal…

Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 12:02hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter

The reality of '9 wasted years' - A decade WMC failed to capture Zuma

For too long, South Africans have been bombarded with a dishonest narrative coined by the very architects of our economic servitude, that the period of President Jacob Zuma's administration represents "9 wasted years." This phrase, repeate…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 14:33hrs | 756 | by Mzwanele Manyi

Rand crashes past R19 to the dollar under Ramaphosa's watch

The South African rand continued its steep decline on Friday, 4 May, crashing past the R19 mark against the U.S. dollar amid heightened political uncertainty and growing diplomatic tensions with the United States. By mid-morning, the curre…

Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 16:40hrs | 9541 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa criticizes South Africa's white right-wing groups

President Cyril Ramaphosa has lashed out at white right-wing organizations in South Africa, particularly Afriforum and the Solidarity Movement, for their recent decision to travel to the United States and report the South African governmen…

Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:30hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa going out of his way to piss off Donald Trump

President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended an invitation to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a state visit to South Africa, with hopes that the visit will take place soon, his office confirmed this week. This comes as the United Sta…

Published: 21 Feb 2025 at 16:01hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa to receive his 14 troops killed in DRC

The arrival of the bodies of the 14 South Africans soldiers will be a challenging reality for some families who have not seen their slain loved ones since January last year.According to reports, President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to att…

Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 11:10hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter

Extending Mnangagwa's term through corruption and patronage

AS Zimbabweans grapple with economic hardships, skyrocketing inflation, and a deteriorating healthcare system, Zanu-PF is once again prioritising its grip on power over the welfare of the people.The ruling party's latest scheme - a blatant…

Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:40hrs | 666 | by Political Correspondent

Mnangagwa speaks on US action against South Africa

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says South Africa is being punished for pursuing its national interests, drawing parallels with Zimbabwe's own long-standing tensions with Washington.On Friday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive ord…

Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:39hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter

'South Africa being unjustly punished by the Trump'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has strongly criticized the United States for imposing sanctions on South Africa, likening the situation to the punitive measures placed on Zimbabwe following its Land Reform Programme. In a statement to journa…

Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:27hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter

Trump, Ramaphosa war of words escalates

The South African government has hit back at United States President Donald Trump after his administration froze aid worth over $400 million, accusing Washington of engaging in a "campaign of misinformation and propaganda." The diplomatic …

Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 19:45hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter

Trump promotes resettlement of South African white refugees

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order cutting all foreign aid to South Africa, citing concerns about the country "seizing" ethnic minority Afrikanersâ€™ agricultural property without compensation.Trump alleged South Af…

Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 19:01hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter

Trump signs order to cut funding for South Africa over land policy

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against…

Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:41hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter

Malawi orders troops to withdraw from DR Congo

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the military to begin preparing to withdraw from their peacekeeping mission in the volatile eastern Democratic of Congo.The Malawian troops are part of the southern African regional bloc's mi…

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:59hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa fails to explain SANDF deployment in DRC

Independent political analyst and senior lecturer at the University of Limpopo, Dr Metji Makgoba, criticised Ramaphosa for not addressing national concerns about the conflict or explaining why troops remain in Goma."He failed to explain cl…

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:47hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa issues strong warning to Donald Trump

President Cyril Ramaphosa used his State of the Nation Address to send a strong message to his country's detractors, warning that the South Africa he leads will not cower to bullies.South Africa, he said, was very capable of navigating the…

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:43hrs | 1731 | by Staff reporter

Elon Musk piles pressure on Ramaphosa

Barely a day after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut funding to South Africa because of the country's new land expropriation laws, one of his biggest backers - Elon Musk - piled the pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa, asking i…

Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 10:27hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter

Kagame's chilling warning to Ramaphosa

In an unprecedented escalation of tensions between South Africa and Rwanda, President Paul Kagame has responded to President Cyril Ramaphosa, with Kagame accusing his Pretoria counterpart of distorting facts.However, what was chilling abou…

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:49hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter

Don't be silly, Tshabangu: Malema would never support Ramaphosa going beyond his term limit!

While at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm over the weekend, opposition CCC party self-appointed Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu made a startling assertion.In a flimsy attempt to justify his and his fellow pseudo-opposition c…

Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:30hrs | 683 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

ANC of Ramaphosa faces critical existential crisis

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared that the African National Congress (ANC), the country's ruling party and Africa's oldest liberation movement, is at a critical juncture. Speaking during the ANC's 113th anniversary celeb…

Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 12:24hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter

South Africa GNU sees +1,000 businesses shut down in less than a month

South Africa has shut down 1,041 mom-and-pop stores in a bid to stop people from consuming pesticide-laden food, which has led to the deaths of 38 children across the country.President Cyril Ramaphosa's government also extended a deadline …

Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 09:14hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter

Black South Africans urged not to reconcile with poverty

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) has issued a scathing denunciation of South Africa's Day of Reconciliation, describing it as a deceptive attempt by the ruling elite to obscure the historical and ongoing suffering of the black majorit…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 05:00hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter

Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda

Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda. They undermine and underestimate the MKP at their own peril. With ANC on an irreversible decline, MKP has become a key player in black politics, writes Prof. Sipho Seep…

Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | 1306 | by Prof. Sipho Seepe

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