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Despite backlash at his appointment of Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s ambassador to the US, President Cyril Ramaphosa has doubled down on his decision, arguing that Meyer is well qualified to... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa said billionaire Elon Musk could use equity-equivalence programmes to meet South Africa’s racial-equity rules and roll out his Starlink internet service locally, pointing... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has chosen Roelf Meyer, a former chief government negotiator during talks to end white minority rule in the 1990s, to be his country's next ambassador to the United... 

South Africa's newly elected Democratic Alliance party leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, said on Monday he will focus on addressing a "trust deficit" among Black voters as he seeks to grow the DA into... 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accepted new US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell’s credentials, a month after the diplomat was issued with a formal reprimand for criticising the government and... 

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) will on May 27 officially introduce the Constitution Amendment Bill to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, which would allow... 

The Government Communication and Information System has welcomed the sentencing of former African National Congress Member of Parliament Vincent Smith, praising the Judicial Commission of Inquiry... 

The Democratic Alliance said on Thursday it will not be meeting the African National Congress’ 12-hour deadline to remove the party's billboard that plays on recent remarks made by Gauteng Premier... 

The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged the Special Investigating Unit and President Cyril Ramaphosa to extend the Rooivaal wastewater treatment plant investigation to include the payment of water... 

Bearish options bets on the rand are at the highest in almost three years as traders start to question whether the South African currency’s headlong rally has further to run. So-called risk... 

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen has assured that his party will continue to push for the implementation of “faster and bolder reform”, while it rejects the African National Congress's... 

Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga on Thursday accused the African National Congress-led government of failing Gauteng residents, promising to rescue the province by acting... 

Civil society organisation AfriForum on Wednesday served a summons on President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, as part of its legal action to challenge the... 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his 2026 State of the Nation address, announced that the country’s electricity transmission assets would move out of State-owned Eskom. This will happen... 

South Africa’s second-largest political party faces some internal pressure to quit the ruling coalition, but doing so would damage its growth prospects and be a “big mistake,” its outgoing leader... 

Ahead of the upcoming local government elections, Democratic Alliance Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille assured Polity on Friday that ending corruption is one of her priorities for the... 

Political parties expressed mixed reactions to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, criticising the announcement of the National Water Crisis Committee. On Thursday, Ramaphosa... 

The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday accused African National Congress-led municipalities and Rand Water of collapsing the Gauteng water system, threatening to take legal action against... 

South African Jews for a Free Palestine on Friday urged the South African government to immediately sever all diplomatic ties with Israel, alleging hypocrisy that undermines the country’s moral...