The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has announced that it will urgently approach the Constitutional Court following Friday’s split judgment by the Western Cape High Court, which temporarily halted Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala scandal. The latest legal move comes just hours after the High Court granted Ramaphosa an interim interdict preventing Parliament’s Impeachment Committee from continuing with public hearings while his review application against the Section 89 Independent Panel report is being…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has won an urgent legal bid to temporarily halt Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment inquiry after the Western Cape High Court granted an interim interdict suspending the proceedings pending the outcome of his review application against the Section 89 Independent Panel report. The split judgment, delivered by a full bench of the Western Cape High Court on Friday, means Parliament’s Section 89 Impeachment Committee may not proceed with its public hearings while the court considers Ramaphosa’s application to…

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has called on Parliament to launch an urgent inquiry into South Africa’s rapidly expanding digital platform economy, raising concerns over the employment of undocumented foreign nationals, alleged worker exploitation and gaps in labour regulation affecting thousands of e-hailing and delivery drivers. In a letter addressed to Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour Chairperson Boyce Maneli, ATM Parliamentary Leader Vuyo Zungula urged the committee to prioritise an investigation during Parliament’s third term programme into employment conditions,…

The sentencing proceedings of two former apartheid police officers convicted of the 1987 murder of Congress of South African Students (COSAS) activist Caiphus Nyoka have been postponed after one of the accused cited ill health. Former apartheid police sergeants Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht, 61, and Pieter Stander, 60, appeared before the Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni on Tuesday for sentencing after they were found guilty on 2 December 2025 of the premeditated murder of Nyoka. According to the National Prosecuting…

South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Solly Mapaila has claimed that the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) had already reached an understanding to govern together before South Africans went to the polls in the 2024 general election, alleging that the post-election negotiations were merely for public consumption. Speaking during a recent public engagement, Mapaila said the Government of National Unity (GNU) was effectively decided before the election results were announced, dismissing the widely publicised negotiations…

ActionSA has announced that it will approach the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to challenge the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) disciplinary findings that cleared Major General Wally Rhoode and Brigadier Hennie Rekhoto over their conduct during the investigation into the 2020 Phala Phala farm burglary. In a statement issued on Friday, ActionSA National Chairperson Michael Beaumont and Parliamentary Chief Whip Lerato Ngobeni said the party had instructed its legal team to institute review proceedings seeking to have the disciplinary…

LUSAKA, July 15 — Zambia’s former Vice President and Acting President, Dr Guy Lindsay Scott, has died at the age of 82 after an illness, the Zambian government announced on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by Secretary to the Cabinet Patrick Kangwa, Scott died at his Farm in Lusaka’s Leopards Hill area. President Hakainde Hichilema has accorded the former vice president a State Funeral in recognition of his distinguished service to the nation. Scott served as Zambia’s Vice President…

Limpopo ANC Chief Whip Essob Mokgonyana allegedly orchestrated a campaign against suspended Secretary of the Legislature, Dr Tim Maake, to protect senior officials implicated in fraud and corruption estimated at R136 million.  According to sources within the Legislature and the provincial ANC, Mokgonyana wanted Maake removed to prevent him from implementing the recommendations of a damning forensic report that found that senior managers allegedly siphoned off huge sums of taxpayers’ money between 2019 and 2024.  The officials in question from…

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has formally called on Parliament to convene an urgent debate on the nationwide protests that swept across South Africa on 30 June, arguing that the demonstrations exposed deep public frustration over the government’s handling of illegal immigration, border security and organised crime. In a letter addressed to National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza, ATM parliamentary leader Vuyo Zungula invoked Rule 130 of the National Assembly Rules, which allows for an urgent debate on matters of pressing…

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s newly reshuffled Cabinet will officially take office on Wednesday afternoon when new ministers and deputy ministers are sworn in at the Union Buildings, but the ceremony is already being overshadowed by the controversial return of former minister Dina Pule to the executive. The swearing-in follows Ramaphosa’s announcement of a Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday night after consultations within the Government of National Unity (GNU), with changes affecting several key portfolios. While most of the appointments have been welcomed…