President Jacob Zuma refused to take action against his welfare minister, saying there is no crisis in the nation’s social grants system even as the cabinet apologised for the “anxiety” caused
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President Jacob Zuma ordered the country’s social development and finance ministers to ensure that welfare payments are made to beneficiaries on 1 April, the day after a distribution contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies is due to expire. Zuma held talks
President Jacob Zuma contradicted senior members of the ANC on Friday in calling for the constitution to be changed to ensure greater access to land for the nation’s black majority and indicating that the government may consider
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan held his ground in a feud with President Jacob Zuma over control of the nation’s finances as he stuck to deficit targets and warned his detractors not to “mess” with the national treasury. In the budget presented
A year after President Jacob Zuma began feuding with finance minister Pravin Gordhan over control of the nation’s purse strings, the conflict appears to be coming to a head. When he presents his annual budget in parliament on Wednesday
The election of the next leader of the ANC looks set to be a two-horse race. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former chairwoman of the African Union Commission, has an early edge in the battle to take over the helm of the party from her
A finding by the South African antitrust regulator that more than a dozen local and international banks colluded to rig foreign-currency trades will bolster government accusations that the nation’s biggest lenders
With his time as leader of the ANC running out, President Jacob Zuma is gambling that a raft of populist measures can bolster his grassroots support and ensure his political survival. “Radical economic transformation” was the theme of Zuma’s
President Jacob Zuma said the dominance of the country’s four major banks must end and access to the economy for the black majority improved. “There’s a skewed kind of economic control,” Zuma said on Friday. “We actually frustrate our
An analysis of social media conversations by the South African company that accurately predicted Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the US election shows a decline in negative sentiment