International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola has expressed concern over the recent video of MK Party leader and former President Jacob Zuma in India, meeting with corruption-accused Ajay Gupta. Zuma visited a temple with Gupta, who has previously been labelled as the mastermind behind the State Capture years. While the MK Party’s Mzwanele Manyi has described the visit as private, questions have been raised about the presence of South Africa’s
Acting Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), Major General David Chilembe, says marquees have been set up near the Beitbridge Port of Entry to accommodate thousands of foreign nationals undergoing deportation and voluntary repatriation. Chilembe provided an update on repatriation operations at Beitbridge in Musina on Thursday. He said officials at the border are simultaneously managing deportations, voluntary repatriation, and the normal movement of people and goods. Chilembe says the
The Constitutional Court has dealt a significant setback to the Western Cape Government and the City of Cape Town, ruling against their handling of the long-running Tafelberg affordable housing dispute and ordering both spheres of government to account for their efforts to address spatial inequality. In a judgment handed down on Thursday, the country’s highest court found that the province and city fell short of their constitutional obligations in relation to affordable housing
Gauteng police arrested more than 250 illegal immigrants during a high-density multidisciplinary Operation Shanela II conducted in the Hillbrow and Johannesburg Central policing precincts on Thursday. The operation, led by Gauteng Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Tommy Mthombeni, formed part of ongoing provincial crime-combatting initiatives aimed at tackling illegal immigration, drug-related offences and violent crime across the province. In addition to the immigration-related arrests, police arrested 13 suspects for possession and dealing in
The appointment of Dina Pule as Minister of Social Development has sparked criticism from opposition parties, labour groups and civil society organisations. Pule was dismissed as communications minister by former president Jacob Zuma in 2013 after Parliament’s Ethics Committee found that she had concealed her relationship with businessman Phosane Mngqibisa, who allegedly benefited from state-funded events and overseas trips linked to her department. A subsequent report by former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela
