The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has set aside R3 million to fix the Motherwell Cemetery storm water drainage system following recent floods in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. Public Health Portfolio head, Thsonono Buyeye, who led a site visit to one of the flooded cemeteries, the Motherwell Cemetery on Wednesday, 23 October, Read more…
Former public protector and EFF MP Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has joined the uMkhonto weSizwe party (MK). She was announced at a press briefing in Sandton, Joburg on Friday, 25 October. Mkhwebane was announced alongside former KZN premier and ANC veteran Willies Mchunu. Mkhwebane will be the convener of the party Read more…
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is seeking justice for the late Sbusiso Nene. He died in 2009 after a short illness. In 2004, Sbusiso made a startling claim when he alleged that he designed the iconic Moses Mabhida stadium. He was in Grade 11 at the time. EFF has vowed Read more…
Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie has called for closure of all foreign-owned tuckshops and deportation of undocumented foreign nationals, following the rise of incidents where learners died and fell ill after eating toxic snacks bought at these spaza shops. Recent incidents, including the one in Naledi in Read more…
Former cabinet minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi in his tribute to Tito Mboweni revealed that he died an unhappy man. Ngoako Ramatlhodi said Tito Mboweni did not support the ANC’s decision to form the government of national unity (GNU). Sowetan reports that Ramatlhodi spent a lot of time with Mboweni discussing the Read more…
IFP founder Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s youngest daughter, Princess Sibuyiselwe Angela Buthelezi, has died at the age of 55. She died in the early hours on Monday, a week after she was hospitalised in Cape Town. Her brother Prince Ntuthukoyezwe Zuzifa Buthelezi said the MP had taken ill while in Cape Town Read more…
Friends and family of former minister and Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni, bid him a final farewell. Mboweni has been laid to rest at Bodweni Cemetry in Limpopo. He died aged 65 in Johannesburg last Saturday following a short illness. Mboweni was remembered as a dedicated and committed public servant. Read more…
Former finance minister and ANC stalwart Tito Mboweni will be buried on Saturday, following a special provincial funeral in Limpopo. Mourners will gather from around 9am at Nkowankowa Stadium outside Tzaneen, Limpopo. Mboweni died last week at the age of 65. “The family is devastated by Governor Mboweni’s passing after Read more…
uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party chief whip Mzwanele Manyi says he will be “recruiting” former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to join the party. The impeached public protector resigned from the EFF on Wednesday morning. She handed her resignation letter to EFF leader Julius Malema and the party’s top six, a year Read more…
EFF MP Carl Niehaus says he is not bothered by criticism over the significant age gap between him and his wife, Noluthando Mdluli. Mdluli celebrated her 30th birthday on Wednesday and Niehaus, 64, shared pictures of the occasion on social media. The public expressed shock and criticism over the age Read more…