Fikile Mbalula wants the ANC to review the DA’s place in the Government of National Unity. Without the DA, the GNU holds exactly 200 of the 400 seats. This is what Mbalula said on camera, what the ANC’s own written version left out, and what the DA can and cannot force if it walks out.
Communications Minister Solly Malatsi wants a new SABC funding model by 31 March 2027. Every public option described so far, from a household levy to a grant out of tax, draws on your money, and the collectors being considered include SARS, municipalities and banks. This is what is on the table, and how you would pay under each option.
The Employment Services Amendment Bill takes refugees and asylum seekers out of the definition of a foreign national, and the bill’s own memorandum says they get the same employment status as citizens. The department calls the claims a myth. Here are the questions people are asking, answered from the bill itself, and how to make a submission before 6 November 2026.
About 1 million South Africans pay most of the personal income tax, and the numbers come from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s own replies to Parliament. Here is what he told Parliament, what economist Dawie Roodt says a R1 million family gets back for every rand, whether the state could pay its bills without these taxpayers, and what the answer was when an MP asked for a target to ease the burden.
On 9 October 2026, the Department of Home Affairs withdrew its asylum directive. The Home Affairs directive, issued by the Director-General’s office on 28 September, told refugee offices to accept asylum applications from anyone who asks, including people who entered South Africa illegally. Within days, thousands queued outside refugee offices, March and March blocked the Durban refugee centre, and on 8 October cars burned in Soweto and Durban. The department says no minister or other political office-bearer knew about the directive, and that nobody could have foreseen its consequences. On 5 October, its own spokesperson said on 702 that the numbers were going to overwhelm the department.
A video claiming South Africans should pay around R10 a litre for petrol is circulating again after 95 petrol rose to R30.25 a litre in Gauteng on 7 October 2026. The R10 in that video is the 2021 cost of the fuel at the harbour, not a pump price, and today that part alone costs R17.44. Tax and levies add R7.46 a litre, and that is the part of the price the ANC-led government decides. On the same day the price went up, the ANC’s own MPs asked an ANC finance minister to cut those levies.
The ANC has asked Parliament’s ad hoc committee to find that suspended National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola failed in his duty by not resisting Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s freeze on Crime Intelligence appointments. The Activists and Citizens Forum accuses ANC MP Khusela Diko of protecting Mchunu at Masemola’s expense, and Diko says the forum could…
Premier Alan Winde has warned Western Cape farmers to prepare now for a hotter summer, higher fire danger and more pressure on water, with El Niño expected to strengthen in the coming months. The warning follows a fire season in which more than 200 000 hectares of the province burned. Winde asked landowners to clear…
The IEC has answered the ANC’s Electoral Court application by filing its own system records, showing what the party’s administrators were doing in the final hours before the 28 August candidate deadline. The records split the 6 affected municipalities into 2 very different groups: in Ngquza Hill and Port St Johns there was no system…
Abdulkader “AK” Elyas pleaded guilty in September 2024 to 5 charges of giving false information about his qualifications, in a plea and penalty agreement with the DA’s own Federal Legal Commission. In March 2026 that same commission found he had not complied with the agreement, and in May the party’s federal executive sent the matter…
