The national chairperson of ActionSA, Michael Beaumont, has warned that his party will take the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) to court if it fails to meet its deadline to release a report on the conduct of the presidential protection unit during the Phala Phala probe. Beaumont said that after ActionSA’s initial application under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) a month ago, IPID missed its first deadline and instead requested a 30-day extension. This follows ActionSA’s PAIA…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the formation of a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate why apartheid-era crimes identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have still not been fully investigated or prosecuted. The commission will be led by retired Constitutional Court Judge Sisi Khampepe, with assistance from retired Northern Cape Judge President Frans Diale Kgomo and Senior Counsel Andrea Gabriel. This move follows a legal settlement discussion with families of victims of apartheid crimes, who brought a court…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again defended his government’s decision to visit the White House last week, where they met with US President Donald Trump and his top administration. Ramaphosa says South Africa has always regarded the United States as a strong investment and trading partner. He defended the trip in an open letter to South Africans dated 27 May 2025, which was posted to the state website for circulation. Ramaphosa stressed that the two countries and economies…

Afrika Day is yet to know its dawn. The poor, seldom listened to or seen to matter, are on the verge of giving up on their hopeless dreams due for burial to waiting yawning graves to swallow to final rest that found no peace in their lifetimes. When Viola Davis said ‘when you are poor no one sees you, you are invisible’, it seemed a fleeting moment of an award acceptance speech of a film star.  Not only are the struggling masses…

Dear Fellow South African, Last week, I undertook a successful working visit to the United States at the invitation of President Donald Trump to strengthen relations between our two countries. The delegation that accompanied me included a diverse range of South Africans, with representatives from Government, business, labour and the sporting fraternity, all united in advancing our country’s interests. South Africa has always regarded the United States as a strong investment and trading partner. Our countries and our economies are…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) said president Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the U.S was to sacrifice South African sovereignty and appease the Trump administration. In separate media statements released on Thursday, May 22, both parties accuse Ramaphosa and his delegation of allowing Trump to steer the discussions about his claims of a genocide against white Afrikaner farmers, without countering him with evidenced crime statistics of South Africa. Amongst the figures that accompanied Ramaphosa to the…

The South African President has made an offer of his country’s rare earth minerals to the US during his heated meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Washington DC. President Cyril Ramaphosa told Trump that his country has the minerals which the US needs to fuel its vast economy, but he did not name the minerals. Ramaphosa was in Washington DC to meet with Trump and his key inner circle in a bid to reset the relationship between the…

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House on 21 May 2025 prompted me to draw international diplomatic parallels in the manner in which the latter treats world leaders, especially in the Oval Office. This meeting reminds me of the infamous 28 February 2025 encounter aimed at fostering a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia in the White House, which was later overshadowed by a heated and embarrassing exchange between Trump, his Vice President JD…

US President Donald Trump has confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa with his claims that there is genocide against white farmers in South Africa.  Adding another layer of wrong information, the US president claimed that white farmers are “executed” after their farms have been violently grabbed without compensation. Unflinching, Trump made the claim more than twice, even after Ramaphosa had explained to him that there is no genocide, but that there are victims of rampant crime in the country, including farmers.  This…

With South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the USA to meet with President Donald Trump and other senior government officials, reports have emerged that there is a plan to appease Pretoria-born billionaire Elon Musk. According to Bloomberg, the plan involves allowing Elon Musk to operate Starlink in South Africa without having to partner with a local BEE company. The news agency claims that this move is aimed at easing tension between Musk, a key power broker in the Trump administration,…