June 11
South Africa: Clock Ticking As Big SA Parties Scramble to Meet Deadline for First Parliament Sitting [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Political parties are moving with haste to expedite the terms of the government of national unity ahead of the National Assembly sitting on Friday. There has been no clear… Read more »
South Africa: Post Office Workers Face Delays in Severance Payouts - South African News Briefs - June 11, 2024
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South Africa: Pros and Cons of a National Unity Government
DW
The ANC has proposed forming a national unity government after failing to win a majority in the May election. What does that mean? And would it even work in the politically… Read more »
South Africa: Mop Up Operations Continue Across KwaZulu-Natal
SAnews.gov.za
Mop up operations continue across KwaZulu-Natal following heavy rains, which wreaked havoc in various parts of the province. Read more »
South Africa: Swing Towards Right-Wing Populism - It's Up to the People to Take a Stand [analysis]
Daily Maverick
The 2024 elections saw a rise in popularity of parties like uMkhonto Wesizwe and the Patriotic Alliance. The growing influence of right-wing movements in South Africa could… Read more »
South Africa: French President Emmanuel Macron's Election Gamble Holds Lessons for Ramaphosa [analysis]
Daily Maverick
In much the same way as Macron, President Cyril Ramaphosa must realise that whoever he decides to invite to join the ANC in a governing coalition will have to endure two years of… Read more »
South Africa: Government of National Unity Talks At Teething Stage in Gauteng As Premier Lesufi Wins Early Support [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Political parties in SA's economic heartland are under pressure to form a provincial government, but there has been no clear agreement between the key players ahead of the first… Read more »
South Africa: Lifelong Victim With Murderous Instinct - Jacob Zuma Is an Unkillable Zombie Stalking South Africa [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Like a reanimated corpse bursting from a crypt in a cheesy late-night horror movie, South Africa's wildly corrupt former president, Jacob Zuma, has returned. Read more »
South Africa: The Mixed Forces Behind Zuma's MK Party - Fed Up ANC Members, Taxi Industry, Tenderpreneurs, Ex-Fighters [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Jacob Zuma's MK party emerged from virtually nowhere and in a short time managed to convince a sizeable proportion of South Africans to support them. Nationally, the renegade party… Read more »
South Africa: While Politicians Edge Towards a Power-Sharing Deal, Mining Activists Demand a Voice [analysis]
Daily Maverick
In the wake of post-election negotiations for a government of national unity, civil society groups are asserting their right to be heard. 'Nothing about us without us,' declared a… Read more »
South Africa: Garden Route Ratepayers Up in Arms Over Controversial DA Appointment of Ex-Mayor to Provincial Legislature [analysis]
Daily Maverick
New members of the Western Cape legislature will be sworn into office on Thursday. Among them will be the Democratic Alliance's Memory Booysen, the controversial former Garden… Read more »
South Africa: Why Can't South Africa Grow? Perhaps Because We No Longer See Value in Making Things [analysis]
Daily Maverick
South Africa needs to create a manufacturing-for-export base. We are not Australia, the Lucky Country, which annually exports over three times the value of commodities we do -… Read more »
South Africa: Speaker First of Key Choices in Any National Unity Govt - Cooperation Talks Continue [analysis]
Daily Maverick
When the National Assembly elects the Speaker at its first sitting on Friday, South Africans will have their first insight into how far negotiations for a government of national… Read more »
South Africa: A Short History Lesson On the 'Independence' of the National Prosecuting Authority [analysis]
Daily Maverick
The NPA is run as a programme within the Department of Justice and the director general of that department, who is not even a member of the NPA, is its official accounting officer.… Read more »
South Africa: Wild Baboons On the South Peninsula - How Not to Manage Urban Wildlife Conflicts [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Cape Town's urban baboon management programme, once a conservation and community success story, has the potential to once again be a world-class example of how to manage wildlife… Read more »
South Africa: South African Schools Battle Growing Culture of Bullying [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Bullying in schools can lead to long-term consequences relating to social adjustment and leave victims with low self-confidence and decreased motivation to study. While some… Read more »
South Africa: Western Cape Detectives Charge Two Suspects for Khayelitsh Multiple Murder Case [press release]
SAPS
As part of ongoing investigations into the murder of three children and a 30 year old man as well as nine attempted murders in Khayelitsha on Saturday, Provincial Serious Violent… Read more »
South Africa: Gauteng Police Arrested One Suspect Who Is Linked to the Murder of Two Children and Two Other People in Soshanguve [press release]
SAPS
The police in Gauteng have arrested one suspect, aged 35, who is linked to the alleged murder of two girls, aged four and seven years, as well as two other people in Soshanguve on… Read more »
South Africa: Pandor Believes Brics Has Opportunity to Shape a 'Refreshed' Global Order
SAnews.gov.za
The world is at a crucial turning point, requiring decisive leadership and innovative ideas, and BRICS has a unique opportunity to influence a refreshed global order. Read more »
South Africa: Health Minister to Brief Media On Mpox Outbreak
SAnews.gov.za
Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, will hold a media briefing on Wednesday to provide an update on the outbreak of Monkeypox disease, also known as Mpox. Read more »
South Africa: Parliament Welcomes Western Cape High Court Ruling On EFF Application
Parliament of South Africa
Parliament welcomes the Western Cape High Court judgement dismissing with costs the Economic Freedom Fighters' (EFF) application to have the conduct of Parliament during the 2015… Read more »
South Africa: Cosatu Western Cape Is Shocked By Another Workplace Accident
COSATU
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has learnt with shock and dismay about the explosion that claimed the life of one worker and seriously injured two others at the… Read more »
South Africa: Money Starts Flowing At Last to Gauteng Care Organisations
GroundUp
The Department of Social Development has been scrambling to comply with a court order Read more »
South Africa: Scramble for Water in Kariega As Municipality Fails to Keep Its Promise
GroundUp
Water tanker runs dry after 30 minutes Read more »
South Africa: 'Each Time We Try to Get Comfortable, the Police Come to Demolish Our Home'
GroundUp
Families living in Lindokuhle Mnguni informal settlement in Johannesburg say they're being harassed by police and AmaPanyaza Read more »