Parliamentary honors for the late Mosiuoa Lekota are officially on the table after the UDM pushed Speaker Didiza to act.
UDM's formal request to Parliament
The United Democratic Movement asked Speaker Thoko Didiza for official recognition.
Lekota passed away on 4 March 2026 at age 77.
Options floated range from a special debate to formal tributes.
Bantu Holomisa has been vocal about Lekota's bravery and integrity.
Lekota's anti-apartheid roots
Mosiuoa Patrick Lekota earned his nickname for his fearless apartheid-era resistance.
Robben Island detention put him alongside Nelson Mandela.
His activism ran through the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s.
Later involvement with the United Democratic Front and ANC followed...
A R10-million cash heist from President Ramaphosa's couch cushions keeps dragging through South African courts over six years later.
Phala Phala accused back in court
Wilson Ndlovu, Ishmael Chikurungu, and Bongani Mthombeni faced the Modimolle Regional Court.
Charges cover housebreaking, theft, and money laundering.
All three have denied every charge against them.
Pre-trial business likely means yet another postponement.
How the farm robbery originally went down
Foreign currency stashed inside furniture got swiped from Phala Phala farm.
Cops raided the scene back in February 2020 near Bela-Bela.
Arthur Fraser blew the whistle publicly in June 2022.
Fraser alleged Ramaphosa tried to suppress the theft investigation.
Parliament's...
Ballooning legal bills are literally bleeding South African municipalities dry and tanking basic service delivery for residents.
Kubayi's takedown of municipal legal spending
Mmamoloko Kubayi torched the wildly high legal costs municipalities keep racking up.
Her keynote dropped at SALGA's 6th National Municipal Legal Practitioners' Forum.
Cape Town hosted the event on 12 March 2026.
Skills gaps in finance and supply-chain areas fuel the mess.
How the litigation death spiral works
Garbage governance triggers water, power, and sewer failures.
Frustrated residents then drag municipalities into court.
Bigger legal budgets cannibalize funds meant for actual services.
Weak in-house teams force expensive outsourcing to private lawyers...
A massive push to rope religious and traditional leaders into South Africa's development blueprint just landed in KwaZulu-Natal.
Ramokgopa's NDP pitch in KwaZulu-Natal
Maropene Ramokgopa urged faith and traditional leaders to back Vision 2030.
Churches reportedly reach spots the government straight-up cannot.
Amakhosi's strategic plans should plug into national-level departmental strategies.
Active citizenship got framed as a core NDP pillar.
Who showed up in Pietermaritzburg
KwaZulu-Natal MEC Siboniso Duma rolled through for the session.
uMgungundlovu District Mayor Mzi Zuma attended alongside local leaders.
Msunduzi Mayor Mzimkhulu Thebolla joined the lineup.
Stakeholders from across the district turned out.
Rural grievances...
A constitutional detour attempt just got shut down, keeping Walter Magaya's four-count rape trial on track in Harare.
Magaya's Constitutional Court bid rejected
Walter Magaya faces four rape charges.
His defense fought the closed-session ruling.
Section 175(4) referral got tossed for lacking merit.
Witnesses will testify in camera as planned.
Close to 100 villagers got booted from their homes in Buhera over a decade-old land beef that finally got enforced.
Marume Village boundary dispute
Sabhuku Marume scored a 2015 default judgment.
Enforcement only kicked in late last year.
Sabhuku Ngundu's people got displaced mid-rainy season.
Evicted families are sheltering in abandoned buildings.
Fallout is hitting displaced residents hard
Kids have completely dropped out of school.
Families sold livestock just to eat.
Crops were left behind and lost.
Affected groups got declared internally displaced.
Government response to the Buhera crisis
Freeman Mavhiza wrapped up a formal probe.
Misheck Mugadza called the situation urgent.
Dr. Anxious Masuka joined high-level talks.
A...
Demolition orders just landed on residents who built homes on unauthorized land near Beitbridge's water supply dams.
Beitbridge housing stand crackdown
Alpha International Land Developers' project sparked it.
Douglas Siphuma signed the demolition paperwork.
ZINWA flagged illegal structures to the council.
Loud Ramakgapola says individual assessments are coming.
A 200-kilogramme dagga haul got 11 people nabbed after cops caught them hauling drugs disguised as blankets.
ZRP busts smuggling ring near Beitbridge
Eleven suspects got picked up mid-transit.
Roughly 200 kg of dagga was seized.
Drugs were wrapped to resemble blankets.
Unregistered meds were also confiscated.
A massive stash of unregistered cough syrup got busted at Beitbridge after cops pulled it from a truck chassis and literal coffins carrying dead bodies.
Volvo truck seizure at Beitbridge
Wisdom Munyonga and Tendai Gwainda got nabbed early Thursday.
Officers found syrup boxes stashed beneath the trailer.
Broncleer, Benylin, and Astra Pain made up the haul.
ZRP searched their Volvo FH at the border post.
Coffin smuggling bust on the same day
Mtonga Fumu and Dereck Lonje got caught via tip-off.
Their Toyota Hilux was hauling five occupied coffins.
Cops discovered 31 boxes of syrup hidden inside them.
Groceries were also loaded alongside the contraband.
