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Ramaphosa's 2026 SONA Pledges R1 Trillion Infrastructure Drive, National Water Committee, and 5,500 New Police Officers

CAPE TOWN, 12 February 2026. President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his annual State of the Nation Address to a joint sitting of Parliament at Cape Town City Hall on Thursday evening, presenting an agenda centred on infrastructure investment, a new national response to South Africa's water crisis,...

Mothibi Assumes Office as National Director of Public Prosecutions Amid Court Challenge, Inherits 218 State Capture Cases

PRETORIA, 2 February 2026. Advocate Andy Mothibi took office as South Africa's National Director of Public Prosecutions on Monday, succeeding Advocate Shamila Batohi at the helm of the National Prosecuting Authority, even as a Johannesburg attorney filed papers in the Gauteng High Court seeking...

South Africa Expels Israeli Chargé d'Affaires Over Social Media Attacks on Ramaphosa, 'Violation of Diplomatic Norms'

PRETORIA, 30 January 2026. South Africa declared Israeli Chargé d'Affaires Ariel Seidman persona non grata on Thursday, ordering him to leave the country within 72 hours after he published social media posts the government characterised as insulting attacks on President Cyril Ramaphosa and after...

SACP Confirms It Will Contest 2026 Local Elections Independently Despite ANC Bilateral Talks

JOHANNESBURG, 12 January 2026. The South African Communist Party reaffirmed this week that it will contest the 2026 local government elections independently under its own banner, the first time in South Africa's post-apartheid democratic history that the SACP will field candidates without...

Ramaphosa Outlines Six ANC Priorities for 2026 at 114th Anniversary Rally

RUSTENBURG, 10 January 2026. African National Congress President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the party's annual January 8 statement at Moruleng Stadium outside Rustenburg in the North West on Saturday, marking the ANC's 114th anniversary and outlining six priorities the party's National Executive...

Ramaphosa Appoints SIU Head Mothibi as NDPP in Surprise Move After Panel Found No Suitable Candidates

PRETORIA, 6 January 2026. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday appointed Advocate Jan Lekgoa (Andy) Mothibi as South Africa's new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), effective 1 February 2026, in an appointment described as unexpected by observers after Mothibi was not among the six...

Ramaphosa Cites Rating Upgrade and Eskom Turnaround in New Year Message, Acknowledges Unemployment Burden

PRETORIA, 31 December 2025. President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his annual New Year message on Wednesday, citing South Africa's first sovereign credit rating upgrade in nearly two decades, the elimination of load shedding for most of 2025, and improvements in rail and port operations as...