The ANC has directed it national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, to offer a sincere apology for his response to complaints that a councillor demanded sex for jobs.

The ANC Women’s League is not backing down from its call for the party’s national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, to apologise for his crass response to a question on sex for jobs.

Only 27% of respondents in the Western Cape have institutional trust in local government, a pre-election survey by the Human Sciences Research Council found.

The MK Party has once again made several parliamentary changes to its caucus, appointing four new whips, including a previous chief whip, to keep the party’s group of 58 MPs in check.

Months after questions around the deadline for the finalisation of an investigative report into how President Cyril Ramaphosa’s orders were defied when the Iranian navy’s participation in Exercise Will for Peace 2026, the Presidency has confirmed the deadline is 31 October 2026.

With less than 20 days to go before the polls, PA leader Gayton McKenzie has made changes to his party’s electoral efforts, including bringing “reinforcements” to Cape Town and banning local media from interacting with the party.

The social development department has rejected disinformation on social media that three million foreign nationals in South Africa receive social grants, saying the true number of refugees in the welfare net is about 21 000.

Weeks after the ANC’s failed attempt to elect Mzimasi Hala as co-chair of the parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Defence, he has finally been elected.

MPs on Wednesday described the treatment of a state-employed food aide hired to work in former social development minister Sisisi Tolashe’s private residence as “modern slavery”.

Lawyers for the EFF have argued that there was no “rational decision” for the parliamentary impeachment committee to rescind its recommendation of advocate Thandazani Griffiths Madonsela SC as evidence leader.