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Luyolo Mkentane

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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.

The task team is expected to deliver a progress report to transport minister Barbara Creecy soon. Picture:

Creecy team saves hundreds of Prasa jobs

Unions oppose Prasa’s plan to retrench more than 600 workers, citing SA’s worsening unemployment crisis

The PSA has called on basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube to urgently implement a comprehensive intervention strategy to curb the growing brain drain. Picture:

PSA urges Gwarube to stem teacher exodus from public schools

Public Servants Association has called for urgent action as violence and inadequate resources drive out teachers

Minister of finance Enoch Godongwana. Picture: Business Day/

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

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

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

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

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.

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’

President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture:

Billions in pledges prove SA summits not ‘just for show’, says Ramaphosa

Infrastructure is ‘the next great frontier of investment’, the president says

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

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.

Public works & infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson. Picture:

Expanding blacklist of building firms exposes ‘systemic noncompliance’ in sector

The government's move to bar 52 contractors over fraud, poor performance and contractual failures highlights deep-rooted problems

MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela. File photo.

MK Party condemns tribalism amid anti-immigration protests

The party is pushing a bill to reserve spaza shop ownership for South Africans

Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim.

Numsa slams Eskom’s new wage deal as ‘unacceptable and provocative’

NUM and Solidarity accept 7% three-year pay increase, binding on all workers as utility pushes for stability in bargaining cycles

Dirco director-general Zane Dangor says 'the weaker are held accountable at an individual level or through sanctions, often unilateral sanctions, which are also unlawful, but the powerful can act with impunity'. File photo.

Dirco boss Dangor criticises Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ assault on international law

Powerful nations and their allies ‘evade accountability but weaker states are punished’

Solly Msimang poses with some of his supporters before the start of the DA federal congress at Gallagher Convention Centre.

Solly Msimanga wants to rebuild rural, party structures if elected DA federal chairperson

Solly Msimanga, Gauteng DA leader and MPL, says if he is elected as the party’s federal council chair, he will prioritise rebuilding grassroots structures that collapsed during the mass exodus of black leaders from the party, particularly…