More than 700,000 beneficiaries of the R350 grant have not collected their payments from the first and second cycles

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Eastern Cape ANC chair Oscar Mabuyane has warned that if the party’s failure to register candidates with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) turns out to be deliberate, it would amount to a betrayal of both the ANC and people of the Eastern Cape. Speaking at the ANC’s Nyandeni…

US President Donald Trump publicly announced SA leaders will visit him in Washington DC next week, but President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office says they are awaiting formal confirmation from the White House.

EFF leader Julius Malema says his party must put South Africans first when it comes to jobs, regardless of language, connections or background.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has urged supporters to remain loyal to the party even when it disappoints them, in the same way Kaizer Chiefs fans stand by their team through defeats. “Kaizer Chiefs supporters don’t abandon their team when it is beaten,” Mbalula said during a door-to-door campaign in ward…