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Luyolo Mkentane

A seasoned all-round journalist with more than 15 years' industry experience, Luyolo is passionate about local government, geopolitics, and labour issues.

Cosatu delegates in high spirits during the delayed national congress at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand on Tuesday

Factional battles still delaying start of Cosatu congress

The second day of Cosatu’s four-day national congress had not yet begun by late Tuesday due to procedural stalemates and factional disputes surrounding delegates’ credentials and leadership suspensions.

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Cosatu’s first deputy president Mike Shingange during the labour federation’s national elective congress at Gallagher Conference Centre in Midrand on September 14 2026. Picture: Business Day/

From comrade to critic — Cosatu issues sharp warning to ANC

Federation questions continued support for party as municipal service delivery collapses

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Minister of finance Enoch Godongwana. Picture: Business Day/
ENOCH GODONGWANA

Pay Eskom or lose your funds: Godongwana’s ultimatum to 69 municipalities

The finance minister bypasses non-compliant municipalities with direct payments to creditors

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The retrenchment process has pitted Prasa management against organised labour that opposes retrenchments. Picture:

Prasa got nearly R6bn to fix rail — now it wants to retrench 600 workers

The rail operator says it exhausted all alternatives before opting for layoffs

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Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni. Picture:

Government pushes ahead with sweeping reforms to ‘strengthen’ SOEs

Cabinet says progress is being made in overhauling state-owned companies battered by years of state capture, with reforms aimed at ensuring they are fit for purpose

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Hundreds gather in Soweto ahead of planned march against undocumented immigrants on June 30.

Santaco calls for commuter safety, taxis to operate as normal amid June 30 protests

Ahead of anti-migration protests, organisation says police must carry out law enforcement

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Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke Maluleke. File photo.

Metros ‘regress’ as audit outcomes reveal weak financial discipline and service delivery failures

Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke has raised the alarm over what she described as “concerning regressions” in the audit outcomes of the country’s eight metros.

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Joburg ‘risks blackouts’ as Eskom digs in over R5.3bn debt

Business Leadership SA boss warns city’s arrears not being resolved in sustainable way

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MK Party MP John Hlophe was impeached by the National Assembly in February 2024. File picture:

MPs divided over ‘fit and proper’ meaning in Ramaphosa impeachment

DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach says, ‘There will be a very high bar for our participation in this committee’

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President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation at 6pm on Sunday. File photo:

Ramaphosa to address nation on illegal immigration as tensions rise

Ramaphosa to speak on government’s response to illegal migration and rising anti-foreigner protests, amid growing pressure from activists and political parties

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Business Leadership SA chief executive Busi Mavuso.

Eskom’s biggest threat is no longer load-shedding, says BLSA CEO Busi Mavuso

Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso says while Eskom had gone a year without load-shedding, municipal debt exceeding R130bn poses the biggest financial risk to the power utility’s recovery.

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A Prasa train at Fish Hoek station near Cape Town. The United National Transport Union claims a facilitation process by the CCMA was flawed. Picture:

Prasa and unions set for crunch talks over 600 jobs

Labour rejects section 189 process as flawed and warns of ‘jobs bloodbath’

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President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the National Council of Provinces in the North West on Friday. File photo.

Government moving to fix SA’s deepening water crisis, says Ramaphosa

President Ramaphosa has announced urgent measures to tackle South Africa's water crisis

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President Cyril Ramaphosa. File photo.

‘Correct political route’ is for Ramaphosa to resign: Vavi

Organised labour says it notes and respects President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to not resign over the Constitutional Court judgment on Phala Phala — but the “correct political route” is for him to resign.

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Blacklisting of 52 construction firms exposes ‘systemic noncompliance’

This drives substandard work, project delays, site failures and safety risks, says bargaining council

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