The City of Cape Town has published a draft Animal Keeping By-law that requires a permit for every dog and every cat older than 6 months, and public comment closes on 29 September 2026. The argument since publication has been about whether this amounts to a pet licence, with the City saying it has no…
The ANC failed to complete the registration of some of its candidates before the IEC’s 17:00 deadline on 28 August, and may not appear on the ballot in municipalities it has governed for decades, including Mangaung metro. Secretary General Fikile Mbalula first said it had not happened, then blamed a fault in the IEC’s online…
News24 reported that Solidarity and AfriForum spent R108 million to take over Orania, quoting an anonymous senior Solidarity source who described a coup and compared the town to North Korea. The financial documents in the article show money moving into Orania, openly and with the mandate of the people who paid it, and no crime…
The ANC launched its 2026 Local Government Manifesto in Diepsloot on 23 August 2026, and the 64 page document contains an unusually frank account of how badly municipalities are performing. It concedes that only 15% of municipalities achieved a clean audit in 2024/25, that no metro achieved one, and that the funding model the ANC…
AfriForum and the March and March movement met at AfriForum’s offices on 18 August 2026 and agreed to form a joint working group. The two organisations identified shared ground on crime, border control, education and community organising, while both sides confirmed they will still disagree on other matters. The meeting comes against a backdrop where…
Naledi Pandor, Chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Chancellor of Nelson Mandela University, has described the construction of a privately funded Afrikaans medium university as a danger South Africa should not ignore. The institution she is describing, Akademia, takes no government funding or subsidies. Her remarks came on the African Renaissance podcast with Mbuyiseni…
Mbuyiseli Madlanga has spent months chairing a commission that has taken apart the testimony of some of the most senior officials in the country’s criminal justice system. By 6 August 2026 it had sat for 153 days. That record makes him one of the few public figures whose approach to power South Africans have actually…
The Department of Defence spent R27.79 million on 90 pothole repair machines in 2021. Defence Minister Angie Motshekga admitted in Parliament that the machines have never been used because there was no implementation plan. The matter has been referred to the Special Investigating Unit, but accountability remains uncertain. The Admission Defence Minister Angie Motshekga confirmed…
The Western Cape High Court is hearing a constitutional challenge to the Expropriation Act from 3 to 7 August 2026, brought by the DA, AfriForum and the Institute of Race Relations. The Act, signed into law by President Ramaphosa on 23 January 2025, is accused of containing unworkable and arbitrary provisions. All parties agree land…
South Africa’s decline under three decades of ANC governance is well documented, but the party’s survival at the ballot box depends on ANC voters, not just ANC leadership. New polling from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation shows 54 percent of South Africans now want black economic empowerment phased out, while a government commissioned review…
