President Cyril Ramaphosa has challenged Southern African countries to reduce their reliance on outside markets and use the region’s own resources to drive growth, jobs and industrialisation. Ramaphosa is delivering the keynote address at a SADC public lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal today, ahead of the 46th SADC Summit. He said SADC had the
Several public sector projects and contracts will come under scrutiny after President Cyril Ramaphosa gave the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) new powers to investigate possible wrongdoing. The probes stretch across the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. They involve a school construction project, road works, municipal security services and a water treatment project. In
The ANC is preparing for the 2026 Local Government Elections, with party leadership finalising its priorities and commitments ahead of the municipal polls. Speaking at the Special National Executive Committee meeting in Gauteng, ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula said the party was deliberating on and adopting the final manifesto framework before presenting it to South