Shivambu back in court for alleged assault

Gauteng Cooperative Governance MEC, Lebogang Maile, has sought to provide reasons on his decision to rescind the suspension of two DA Councillors - saying it was a taken after he received legal advice from senior counsel.

Former apartheid security officer Joseph Nyampule has told the court that only white police officers were allowed to interrogate political detainees.

The case against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu has been postponed to the 26th of February.

The former speaker of the City of Johannesburg, Councillor Vasco da Gama says Gauteng Cooperative Governance MEC, Lebogang Maile has been on the city's case since he came in last year.

Gauteng MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and CoGTA Lebogang Maile, has reversed with immediate effect the suspension of both the DA's Speaker of the City of Johannesburg, Councillor Vasco Da Gama and current Speaker of the City of Tshwane Katlego Mathebe.

The ANC has defended its decision to propose a new change to the land expropriation without compensation plan.  

The DA has confirmed that it has submitted an urgent application to the High Court to suspend Gauteng COGTA MEC Lebogang Maile's decision to suspend City of Tshwane speaker, Katlego Mathebe, and former City of Johannesburg speaker, Vasco da Gama.

The DA will conduct a site visit to the abandoned Kempton Park Hospital in the East of Johannesburg on Monday, on the first leg of what the party calls the "real state of the nation tour" around the country.

The SACP says the ANC has not backtracked on its position of land reform. This follows a newspaper report that the ANC is now proposing that the minister and not the courts must have unlimited powers on the expropriation of land without compensation.

The African National Congress (ANC) in the North West has ordered the provincial government to speed up delivery of services.

Cosatu in the Free State has endorsed the continuation of the shutdown by angry residents over the chronic water crisis in Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality in Qwaqwa.

ANC KwaZulu-Natal Chairperson Sihle Zikalala has told party supporters, at a rally to celebrate the ANC's 108th provincial anniversary, that it is important for the party to remember why it had embarked on the struggle.

United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa says his party in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in the Eastern Cape has welcomed the proposed talks about the establishment of a new coalition government.

The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) hopes that establishment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) desk by the party will assist in the fight to end gender based violence (GBV).

Former Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane, says he's not targeting members from any specific political party.

Fledgling party, the African Transformation Movement (ATM), is already gearing up to contest 2021 local government elections.

Former Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane has called on community members to hold public representatives accountable for challenges in society.

The ANC in the North West has blamed fighting among its deployees at municipalities for the instability in local governance.

Articulating the party's vision African Transformation Movement leader Vuyo Zungula said his party would be pushing to ensure that South Africans are participants rather than observers in the economy.

African Transformation Movement leader Vuyo Zungula has slammed National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise's decision to approve a motion to institute proceedings to investigate Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office. 

COPE says it will definitely vote for the removal of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane when the time comes.

The Interim Provincial Committee in North West has convened an African National Congress (ANC) provincial Lekgotla, to be held in Rustenburg.

Mpumalanga MEC of Sports and Recreation and Acting Provincial Secretary in Mpumalanga Lindiwe Ntshalintshali has been recorded discussing government ‘contracts’ in an alleged scandal.

The fate of suspended Tshwane Mayor Stevens Mokgalapa is likely to be sealed at this weekend's meeting of the Democratic Alliance's Federal Executive Council (FEDEX).

The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Chief Whip in Parliament, Natasha Mazzone, says they welcome National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise's decision to accede to their demands for an inquiry into the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office. According to the DA, Mkhwebane is not fit to hold office.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has been ordered to apologise and pay a fine for its comments that journalists Anton Harber and Thandeka Gqubule worked for the apartheid government.

The National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise has approved a request to initiate procedures for the removal of the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is imperative that an extension is granted for the lifespan of the Zondo Commission into State Capture.

Opposition parties in the North West have threatened to interdict the ANC provincial Lekgotla in Rustenburg this coming weekend.

Opposition parties in the Free State have blamed the governing ANC for the worsening water crisis in the troubled Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality, which includes Qwaqwa.