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Already an also-ran: Sbusiso Dyanase, a Democratic Alliance caucus leader in Sedibeng, is challenging Geordin Hill-Lewis in the leadership race. Photo: DA

Hill-Lewis and the DA’s non-race

Hill-Lewis remains the overwhelming favourite to replace John Steenhuisen as DA federal leader but Dyanase’s candidacy has turned the race into a debate over internal democracy

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
On the job: Maluti-a-Phofung municipal workers attending to electricity connections in the area. Photo: Maluti-a-Phofung Communications

Thugs cut power, demand villagers pay

Criminals are allegedly extorting residents when the FS municipality fails to cough up for work they submitted claims for but that was never done

  • Lunga Mzangwe
3 min read
African Content Movement (ACM) leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being approached by other political parties in the council to take over from ANC mayor Malekula Melato.

ACM leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng being lobbied for Maluti-a-Phofung mayor role

Motsoeneng says he wants to “take over properly” as coalition talks continue in the troubled Maluti-a-Phofung municipality

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have argued that judges should also undergo lifestyle audits.

‘Judges are not above scrutiny’: MK Party and ATM push for lifestyle audits

The political parties are calling for judges to undergo lifestyle audits, citing accountability concerns, judicial overreach and the delayed Phala Phala judgment

  • Lunga Mzangwe
6 min read