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The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture action to seize two pieces of military training equipment that were intercepted while being shipped from South Africa to China.U.S. officials alleged that the equipment was meant to help China’s military improve its ability to track submarines and control advanced surveillance aircraft.According to court filings, the equipment—known as mission crew trainers—was being transported from the Test Flying Academy of South […]

The internal politics and ideological differences are at play within the DA amid the resignation of former minister Dion George following his fallout with party leader John Steenhuisen.This is according to two political analysts, who commented on what exactly is going on in the second-largest party within the Government of National Unity (GNU).George said in his statement he learnt via the media last November that Steenhuisen requested President Cyril Ramaphosa […]

This past week exposed a structure that has long shaped South African public life while remaining difficult to name.This argument is about accountability. Accountability that operates across the full field of power, rather than being selectively imposed. Accountability that reaches beyond individuals and into systems that shape legitimacy, judgement and political consequence. The question is not whether scrutiny is necessary, but who is scrutinised, by whom, and within which power […]

The eThekwini Municipality has removed drug addicts and vagrants from under the M4 freeway, Che Guevara Road, on Friday. For more than a decade, vagrants and drug addicts have played a cat-and-mouse game with municipality officials at the southern entrance to the Durban CBD, commonly referred to as the Albert Park area. The municipality had been moving vagrants away from this zone, only for them to reoccupy another plot of land […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday gave a key role in post-war Gaza to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and appointed a US officer to lead a nascent security force.Trump named members of a board to help supervise Gaza that was dominated by Americans, as he promotes a controversial vision of economic development in a territory that lies in rubble after two-plus years of relentless Israeli bombardment.The step came […]

The Northern Cape High Court has ruled that the provincial Department of Roads and Public Works is largely responsible for a devastating 2012 road accident that left a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) member permanently paralysed.The court found that the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Roads and Public Works failed to properly maintain the R31 road between Koopmansfontein and Danielskuil and failed to warn motorists of a dangerous […]

Day visits to the Kruger National Park remain suspended indefinitely as persistent heavy rainfall continues to affect large parts of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, including several areas within the park.In a statement on Friday, South African National Parks (SANParks) said the suspension was necessary due to ongoing safety risks posed by saturated infrastructure, flooding, and damaged internal roads.Access to the park is now strictly limited to essential delivery vehicles, airport transfers […]

The National Freedom Party (NFP) is set to meet the ANC and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party on Saturday, following its dramatic withdrawal from KwaZulu-Natal’s Government of Provincial Unity (GPU).The meetings — to be held separately — will be the first between the parties since the NFP exited the coalition.The party, despite holding just one seat, is seen as the kingmaker in the provincial legislature and holds the balance of power […]

KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi has urged residents in the north of the province to exercise extreme caution as persistent rainfall raises the risk of localised flooding.The warning comes after the South African Weather Service issued a Level 2 alert for disruptive rainfall expected on Saturday, 17 January, with heavy downpours likely to continue into Sunday.According to the department, the provincial disaster management centre is […]