‘I could draft some questions’: Leon, Steenhuisen clash over PR’s email to DA MP
Former DA leader Tony Leon says there is nothing unethical or improper about his PR firm suggesting parliamentary questions to a DA MP.
Mashazi’s R60m mansion: the palace Edwin Sodi used to call home
Former Ekurhuleni city manager Imogen Mashazi called a R60-million mansion – complete with a private lift, spa sanctuary, and a “pyjama lounge” – home. This while Madlanga Commission investigators probe her conduct managing the metro’s R50-billion budget.
How SA billionaire Dave King became Trump’s ‘presidential historian’
Dave King, the South African billionaire businessman who famously reached a R730 million settlement with SARS, explains how he became the “presidential historian” after hailing US President Donald Trump as the most powerful man in history.
Fred Khumalo | Whoever is behind March and March, they are giving me Bell Pottinger vibes
A closer scrutiny of March and March leaders’ source of revenue needs to be intensified in the interests of national security.
ANALYSIS | Rassie’s investment in depth as well as versatile bench pays dividends
A soldier, a crocodile, and 9 ministers on a day trip to the border: SA’s migration problems
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IN PICS | The aftermath: Looking back at a tense week of anti-immigration protests
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets throughout SA on Tuesday, 30 June, to mark an unofficial deadline demanding undocumented foreign nationals leave the country. News24 captured the tense standoffs, heavy security presence, and shuttered city centres during the national demonstrations. (Image: Luke Daniel/News24).
Interview | Christo van der Rheede on Trump’s ‘lies’, FW de Klerk, and ‘being disruptive’
Christo van der Rheede – the mild-mannered former music teacher now leading the FW de Klerk Foundation – emerges as a quiet disruptor challenging Trump’s false genocide claims, championing electoral reform, and fighting to keep the promise of the 1994 Constitution alive for every South African.
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Christo van der Rheede – the mild-mannered former music teacher now leading the FW de Klerk Foundation – emerges as a quiet disruptor challenging Trump’s false genocide claims, championing electoral reform, and fighting to keep the promise of the 1994 Constitution alive for every South African.
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UNREAD | The Cat’s court conundrum; Zuma’s Gupta reunion; and Trump’s crypto fortune, told in 10 minutes
From a Pretoria court rejecting Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala’s guilty plea and sentencing deal, to former president Jacob Zuma’s surprise reunion with the Guptas in India, let broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer bring you up to speed on the articles you’ve left, well, unread.
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- The long road home: Six hours. Six kilometres. One border. No return A 6km queue of freight trucks has become a semi-permanent fixture on the N1 north, as Zimbabweans and Malawians rush home.
- Life after looting: Foreign nationals ordered to leave, shops stripped bare National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure chairperson Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili's warning to South Africans that they must "stay in their lane" and not harass foreign nationals has fallen on deaf ears in some instances.
- Lamola demands answers after diplomat is pictured with Zuma and Gupta in India Ronald Lamola has asked for an internal report after Anil Sooklal appeared at an Indian temple with former president Jacob Zuma and Ajay Gupta.
- Carol Paton | The fragility of the DA's male leaders Those slighted or humiliated in the DA's internal politics are quick to dish the dirt on their former comrades. They are also very sensitive to public criticism, writes Carol Paton.
- All SA travellers must now submit a SARS form online – good luck with that The South African Revenue Service is now requiring all travellers entering and leaving South Africa to complete an online declaration form.
- AARTO rollout: How to lose your driver's licence in 15 demerits New regulations set out exactly what it will take to have your driving licence suspended or destroyed in South Africa.
- Eskom's solar registration drive crawling at one new system per day Eskom has registered an average of just one solar system per day over the past seven months, indicating a sluggish response from solar-owning customers to its registration drive.
- South Africa's best-selling Pinotage is not what you'd expect From R49.99 to R340 a bottle, six retailers reveal to Daléne Fourie which Pinotages are moving, and what it says about us.
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