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Absa joins Home Affairs digital partnership to offer smart IDs 
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 5 hours ago The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has announced another major milestone in its digital transformation strategy as Absa officially went live with... →
DA urges Ramaphosa to task SIU, SSA with public service lifestyle audits
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 5 hours ago The DA has formally requested President Cyril Ramaphosa to issue a proclamation authorising the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to partner with... →
South Africa's financial regulator launches probe into state asset manager
By: Reuters 15th July 2026 South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has launched an investigation into the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), citing... →
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J’activists: the hybrid nature of conflict journalism in Sudan’s ‘silent war’
Updated 5 hours ago Sudan’s ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, increasingly viewed as a proxy war driven by competing... →
Ghana’s Tarkwa negotiations are testing Africa’s new mining bargain
14th July 2026 For decades, the bargain between states and mining companies was relatively predictable. Governments provided regulatory certainty, companies... →
What will it take for South Africa to outsmart Mandrax traffickers?
14th July 2026 The May seizure of over 700 kg of methaqualone, or Mandrax, was one of the largest at a South African border post in recent years. Acting on... →
Delayed containment of Ebola could cost DRC and Uganda billions
10th July 2026 The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda presents an urgent public health and development challenge... →
Recommendations
Ntshavheni raises concerns over Zuma’s India visit; briefs on immigration, Cabinet updates
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 3rd July 2026 Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on July 3 briefed media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held earlier this week, noting that... →
Johannesburg in Brief: Local Government White Paper
1st July 2026 In May 2026, CDE convened a discussion on the draft Local Government White Paper led by Pascal Moloi, convenor of the White Paper review process... →
City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces' Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur
1st July 2026 The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to seize El Fasher in North Darfur state... →
Discrimination, Lack of Economic Autonomy and Violence Against Women in Cameroon
30th June 2026 For more than a decade, Cameroon’s government had publicly committed to halving violence against women by 2026, an ambitious and necessary goal in... →
Statements
AfriForum calls for transparency on new state-backed satellite internet and phone company
Updated 5 hours ago The civil rights organisation AfriForum has sent a request in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to the Department of... →
National Treasury withdraws funding from Rand West City due to water mismanagement
Updated 6 hours ago The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Rand West City Local Municipality notes with concern the fact that the municipality forms part of the list of... →
DA writes to Ramaphosa for SIU to carry out Lifestyle Audits
Updated 6 hours ago The Democratic Alliance (DA) believes that immediate and mandatory lifestyle audits must be carried out across the public service, particularly... →
Minister Dean Macpherson visits site of Shembe wall collapse
15th July 2026 Following a visit to the site of a wall collapse at the Nazareth Baptist Church in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, on Tuesday, the Minister of Public Works... →
Press Offices
Foreign property buyers must pay close attention to Reserve Bank’s updated Balance of Payments codes
15th July 2026 The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) updated harmonised Balance of Payments (BoP) codes are an important development that foreign buyers of... →
SARS welcomes major sentence in R62-million Value Added Tax fraud case
14th July 2026 The South African Revenue Service (“SARS”) has welcomed the sentencing of the sole member of a close corporation involved in a R62-million Value... →
Major relief for certain visa applicants as Home Affairs drops medical report requirement
9th July 2026 On 8 July 2026, the Minister of Home Affairs moved to provide welcome relief for temporary residence visa and permanent residence permit applicants... →
Tax court sends anti-avoidance warning to taxpayers with complex artificial tax structures
8th July 2026 In a recent Tax Court judgment involving seven interconnected corporate taxpayers, the Court upheld the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS)... →
