Government developing a permanent Basic Income Support (BIS) grant

The South African government is actively developing a permanent Basic Income Support (BIS) grant to replace the current Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, which currently serves as a financial lifeline for over 8.2 million people. Designed primarily as a jobseeker’s grant, this new framework ai…

MPs reject PA’s bid to censure Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

The Patriotic Alliance (PA) has requested that the ad hoc committee find KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi guilty of gross negligence. This request stems from Mkhwanazi's testimony before the committee, during which he initially accused former police minister Bheki Cele of ac…

SA and Brazil out trade wars aside as Trump’s tariffs bites

South Africa and Brazil—the two largest economies in the Global South and fellow BRICS members—temporarily set aside their trade disputes on Wednesday to focus on shared economic pressure from US-imposed tariffs. Facing persistent threats of trade barriers from Washington, both nations expressed a …

Vavi warns against ‘Balkanising’ SA after Ngobese- Zuma calls for ethnic universities

Colleen Makhubele is in conversation with SAFTU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi,Dr Elijah Masubelele, Deputy Executive Director at Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) and Prof. Siseko Kumalo, Political Theorist and Higher Education Scholar whose work sits at the intersection of Africa…

Eastern Cape Education Department admits it unlawfully withheld billions from schools

The Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDoE) admitted in the Makhanda High Court that its decision to withhold billions of rands from public schools was both unlawful and unconstitutional. The case centers on a 2020 decision by the department to deviate from the mandated per-learner school allo…

Reflections: Zambia 2026 Elections

Colleen Makhubele is in conversation with Gilbert Chisenga, Civil Society Activist based in Zambia, Justin Mulenga, Zambian Correspondent at Diamond TV, Highvie  Hamududu, Party for National Unity and prosperity  and a member of the UPND Alliance and Dr Nicole Beadsworth, Politics Lecturer at Wits …

The mask has slipped: The Democratic Alliance's rotten core of white corruption exposed?

Colleen Makhubele is in conversation with EFF MP, Carl Niehous, Political Analyst, Thobani Zikalala and Corporate Governance Expert, Dr Nimrod Mbele

28 years later, thousands of land claims are still outstanding

Twenty-eight years after the initial deadline to lodge land claims, 5,160 claims still remain to be finalised. Although a new lodging window was briefly opened between 2014 and 2016, the Constitutional Court intervened with a critical directive: all "old order" claims submitted prior to the Decembe…

Cyril Ramaphosa deeply concerned aboutNSFAS crisis, South Africans question his

President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed deep concern regarding the ongoing crisis at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). This reaction follows the decision by Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela to place the troubled student funding scheme under administration. Ramaphosa had prev…

The danger of being a woman in South African media and politics

Colleen Makhubele is in conversation with Slindile Khanyile - Deputy Chairperson at South African National Editors Forum (SANEF), Colleen Lowe Morna - GL Special Advisor at Gender Links, Bongekile Macupe - Deputy Politics Editor at News24, as well as Morongwe Mary Phadi ActionSA party's Mpumalanga …