On 23 July 2026, Jacob Zuma revoked every signing authority on the MK Party’s bank accounts and appointed himself the party’s accounting officer. 9 months earlier, the party’s own parliamentary caucus had asked him to order a forensic investigation into more than R70 million they said could not be accounted for. That investigation has still…
Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane was paid R11.728 million in the 2025 financial year, including a near R5 million pay increase, while the utility received R140 billion in taxpayer support under the Eskom Debt Relief Act. Staff costs across the company rose by R8.3 billion in the same period. Economist Dawie Roodt has said the…
The investigation documents a clean-audited non-profit spending on staff and outreach. Whether that amounts to a scandal depends almost entirely on how the costs are classified. On 26 July, News24 published a lengthy investigation into the finances of AfriForum, the Afrikaner civil rights organisation. The article, by investigative journalist Kyle Cowan, described a group that…
The Western Cape High Court has halted President Ramaphosa’s impeachment hearings on a 2 to 1 vote. Most coverage named the 3 judges and stopped there, missing which one dissented, and a passage at paragraph 60 where the losing judge takes apart the Constitutional Court authority the majority relied on. The Western Cape High Court…
Solidarity is suing Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni for R500,000 in the Pretoria High Court, over a cabinet statement that accused the union of running a misinformation campaign in Washington. The case sits inside a wider dispute. Ntshavheni has called Solidarity’s actions treasonous, confirmed a treason investigation in parliament, and floated regulating civil society…
In July 2026, Bokkieweek, an Afrikaner youth sports tournament, sparked national controversy after being labelled an apartheid-era event by media and politicians. Is this fair criticism, or does it reveal deeper tensions around minority cultural rights in democratic South Africa? This article examines the facts, the framing, and the difficult balance between transformation and cultural…
AfriForum’s Klerksdorp branch has formally challenged the City of Matlosana’s 2026/27 budget, arguing that a projected surplus of R3.95 million is built on revenue assumptions the municipality has no realistic prospect of achieving. In a formal submission dated 13 May 2026, AfriForum’s Klerksdorp branch delivered a 28-page technical analysis to the City of Matlosana, identifying…
Two and a half thousand years ago, Plato watched the world’s first democracy destroy itself from within. He documented exactly how it happened. South Africa is following the same script. Here is a pattern you’ve watched play out your entire life, and nobody has ever given you the honest explanation for why it keeps happening….
The City of Matlosana council voted to approve its 2026/27 budget despite the municipality’s own Mayoral Committee acknowledging it has an unfunded budget position — the 3rd year in a row the municipality has done so. Residents in the North West municipality pay property rates nearly 6 times higher than Cape Town homeowners for a…
