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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Nonkululeko Njilo |Vincent Cruywagen
CHILDREN IN CRISIS Illustrative image: Unsplash Hundreds of South African children go missing every year. Most are found, but many are not. For the families left behind, the pain is excruciating – and endless. Zama Nkabinde is one of thousands of parents living with the pain of a missing child. It has been 15 years since her daughter, Amahle, disappeared without a trace. At the time, four-year-old Amahle was living in a place of safety with her brother, Sizo, and several other children....
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Sune Payne |Nonkululeko Njilo
BUDGET 3.0 REACTION Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers the 2025 Budget Speech at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 21 May.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Victoria O’Regan |Greg Nicolson |Nonkululeko Njilo
POLITICAL POSTURING Illustrative image. From left: Velenkosini Hlabisa, Pieter Groenewald, Cyril Ramaphosa, John Steenhuisen and Gayton McKenzie.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Sune Payne |Nonkululeko Njilo
BUDGET BUST-UP DA Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille says that taking the VAT increase to court is the party’s plan B. The DA briefed the media outside the Western Cape High Court on Thursday, 3 April, after launching a court application against the parliamentary report on the fiscal framework, a key aspect of the Budget which was adopted in the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Sune Payne |Nonkululeko Njilo
SHAKY COALITION ActionSA offered the ANC crucial support to pass the fiscal framework on Tuesday as talks with the DA deadlocked. The vote heads to the National Assembly on Wednesday and could determine the future of the Government of National Unity.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Nonkululeko Njilo |Sune Payne
NO DEAL 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 deadlock between the Government of National Unity (GNU) partners continues.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Yeshiel Panchia |Nonkululeko Njilo
THE BUDGET THAT WASN’T The failure to present the country’s Budget has exposed deepening divisions within the fragile Government of National Unity, with the ANC appearing to believe it still had the upper hand after informing coalition partners about the VAT hike at the last minute.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Nonkululeko Njilo |Bheki Simelane
FLOODING ALERT The Pretoria tornado was initially reported as a flooding incident to the Emergency Communication Centre on Tuesday night, after which the centre immediately dispatched firefighting resources to the scene. A catastrophic tornado has left a trail of destruction in Montana, north of Pretoria, causing extensive damage to vehicles and buildings. Trees were uprooted and roofs were violently torn off dwellings, leaving homes exposed and vulnerable.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | South Africans |Nonkululeko Njilo
‘RECLAIM OUR CITY’ Dr Nasiphi Moya is unapologetic about her stance that spaza shops must be locally owned, and will continue with operations to close foreign-owned spazas as Pretoria battles high unemployment.
It has been three months since ActionSA’s Dr Nasiphi Moya took over the capital city as the first resident, the executive mayor.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Nonkululeko Njilo
FIGHT AND FLIGHT After months of speculation about Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s political future, driven by tensions with EFF leader Julius Malema, he has stepped down as an MP. The EFF confirmed the “voluntary” departure of its former national spokesperson, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, as an MP, alongside Eastern Cape legislature MPP Yazini Tetyana, on Thursday. This marks the end of Ndlozi’s vibrant 10-year career in the National Assembly.
