Legal Matters

The National Assembly has voted to adopt the 2025 Budget framework with a narrow majority. The final tally of the vote was 194 for and 182 against, with zero abstentions. The ANC voted with most of the Government of National Unity (GNU) members in tow, except the Democratic Alliance and…

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and DA leader John Steenhuisen were reportedly meeting on Tuesday to rescue the Budget and the GNU after talks collapsed. Negotiations between the ANC and DA over the national budget stretched into the early hours of Tuesday morning but ended without an agreement as the long-standing…

Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Velenkosini Hlabisa is pushing for stricter accountability and transparency to ensure disaster relief funds are used effectively by municipalities. Announcing the allocation of R1.4bn in disaster relief funds for flood-hit provinces, he emphasised that municipalities would be required to provide detailed monthly and quarterly…

The 2025 Franschhoek Literary Festival features a stellar line-up of local and international authors including Kate Mosse, John Boyne, Deon Meyer, and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu. The festival is expected to run from the 16th to the 18th of May 2025 with general tickets already on sale. Phemelo speaks to festival…

Phemelo discusses the latest coming out of the U.S including Trump/Putin ceasefire negotiations, Trump’s plans to allegedly set up ‘refugee centres’ in Pretoria for white Afrikaners amongst other headlines with Global Fellow of the Wilson Centre, Dr Terence McNamee.