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The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal

MK Party to oppose Gauteng provincial budget over ANC snub

The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal, while the EFF also withholds support over the insourcing of security staff

Thorny issue: Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi and Joburg mayor Dada Morero.

ANC’s ‘own goals’ raise alarm

Senior ANC leaders warn that controversies over Nkabane, Morero and Lesufi could cost the party crucial support in Johannesburg

In doubt: The Gauteng Provincial
Budget for the 2026/27 financial
year was tabled amid fears in
the province that if the MK party
and the EFF did not support it,
it could lead to a collapse of the
government, hence the idea of
lobbying the DA. Photo: Gauteng
Provincial Legislature

ANC weighs up wooing the DA in Gauteng 

Party internal sources say the DA is not fishing in the same pond with them and that the other parties are contesting its base

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (File photo)

Gauteng tables R179 billion budget, R1.4bn of which has been allocated to legislature and political parties

Panyaza Lesufi’s office has been given R1.6bn in 2026/2027

The DA launched a billboard poking fun at Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent gaffe about water shortages. Image: Democratic Alliance

Solly Msimanga: Jacob Zuma has handed the shower to Panyaza Lesufi

Launching a billboard that pokes fun at the Gauteng premier’s recent gaffe about water shortages, the DA said the ANC had lost touch with voters and would lose its majority in all municipalities in the province later this year

Water crisis: Residents of Johannesburg protest outside a Joburg Water depot against water outages that have been taking place in the city. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

What South Africans think of municipalities

Reports have highlighted that a significant number of elected councillors struggle with basic literacy and comprehension

ANC regional secretary and finance MMC Jongizizwe Dlabathi

Dlabathi falls in wake of EFF exit

The EFF has rejected a renewed partnership, leading to ANC Ekurhuleni regional secretary Jongizizwe Dlabathi stepping down as finance MMC

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (X)

Gauteng water crisis in the forefront as political parties challenge Lesufi’s Sopa promises

Gauteng’s prolonged water crisis and Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent comments — for which he later apologised — about using hotel facilities during outages returned to the forefront as political parties responded to his State of the Province address. The speech did not provide sufficient detail on how the province would end the chronic water shortages, […]

Hands on: Dada Morero, third from left, and officials on a site visit to assess the water crisis plaguing Johannesburg residents.

Billions needed to sort water crisis

Joburg’s Dada Morero assured residents that the city would not implement water-shedding in the same way South Africans endured load-shedding

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.

Foot-in-Mouth Disease: How Lesufi’s populist politics costs ANC in Gauteng

Lesufi’s remark about resorting to hotel showers during water shortages was not an isolated lapse of judgment but a revealing window into this broader political environment

Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza (LinkedIn)

EXCLUSIVE: Ekurhuleni’s Xhakaza set to reshuffle mayoral committee amid ANC, EFF tension

The Economic Freedom Fighters will be accommodated in the reshuffled committee, sources said

Highly favoured: Patrice Motsepe represents the “ideal” independent leader,
observes the writer. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Let the people decide who becomes President

For decades, South Africans have longed for a deeper expression of popular agency, not just through protests but by choosing the person who occupies the country’s highest office

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (File photo)

Lesufi denies using state power against rival in ANC Gauteng chair race

Senior party insiders have accused Lesufi of attempting to place the Gauteng department of health under administration to politically weaken his potential rival, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko

Less decibels: No amount of sloganeering will win the ANC the Gauteng province as more and more voters are
seeing through the chimera of noise. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Gauteng not seduced by slogans

Urban voters navigating the daily realities of transport breakdowns, potholes, water outages, electricity instability, crime and failing municipalities are not impressed by spectacle

Culpable homicide: The Quantum was allegedly attempting to overtake
four vehicles when it collided head-on with an oncoming truck. Twelve
learners were killed. Photo: Timothy Bernard/Independent Newspapers

Deadly Vaal ride to school

No single institution carries end to end accountability for ensuring a child’s journey to school is safe, leading to lethal consequences

Ayanda Dludla was the driver of the minibus that  was involved an an accident and led to the death of 14 children.

Driver in fatal Vanderbijlpark crash charged with murder

Twenty-two year-old Ayanda Dludla also faces three counts of attempted murder, as well as charges of driving without a valid professional permit and operating an unlicensed vehicle

Economic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief, Julius Malema. Photo: @EFFSouthAfrica

Malema: EFF will vote with MK party to remove Thami Ntuli as KZN premier

The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said the uMkhonto weSizwe party had won the most votes in the province at last year’s elections and should be given a chance to lead

The head of Gauteng’s department of health and wellness, Lesiba Arnold Malotana. (Gauteng Department of Health)

Gauteng head of health and wellness suspended

This comes amid the Special Investigating Unit’s crackdown on people linked to corruption at Tembisa Hospital

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (@myANC/X)

DA governs the best-run municipalities, Ramaphosa tells ANC councillors

The ANC leader said it also hurts him to see that some municipalities run by the party were ‘being run backwards’

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.

Service providers challenge Gauteng premier over missing tender records in R9bn school feeding scheme

In their letter to Panyaza Lesufi, service providers outline serious irregularities in the National School Nutrition Programme tender process