79 Deaths a Day: South Africa’s Diabetes Crisis Needs a New Strategy
Diabetes is manageable. With timely support, people can lead long, healthy lives free from preventable complications.
Summit
The First Step to Curbing the Gauteng’s Environmental Crisis
The Gauteng pollution summit that took place on 19 and 20 September 2026 at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park was an important first step in moving Gauteng’s growing pollution crisis beyond discussion to decisive action. The two-day summit, headed by the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus)-led Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Environmental Affairs […]
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Minibus Taxi Industry Transformation Championed at Western Cape Summit
GOOD Councillor Ricardo van der Merwe, the Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Infrastructure and Planning Services at the Saldanha Bay Municipality, officially attended the Western Cape Minibus Taxi Industry Transformation Summit on Wednesday, 17 June 2026.
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We Have Warned of Johannesburg’s Looming Bankruptcy for a Long Time
For years, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned Johannesburg’s ANC administration that exorbitant salary negotiations and a culture of non-payment would steer the City straight into bankruptcy. These warnings fell on deaf ears, though, and the consequences are now evident. The controversial R10,3 billion salary increase offered to workers last year to avert labour […]
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Emfuleni Sends Office-Bearers Abroad Amid Dire Financial Situation
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is strongly opposed to the decision by the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging) to send five delegates to this year’s World Cities Summit, scheduled to take place in Singapore from 14 to 16 June. The international trip was enabled by the ANC, which steamrolled […]
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Warships as Diplomats: How the South African Navy Is Tasked With Building Ties With Other Nations
The presence of a warship can be the most tangible and visible sign of bilateral and multilateral friendships.
Much Like Zuma’s 2014 SONA, President Ramaphosa Tries to Tell a “Good Story”, While Country Collapses
President Cyril Ramaphosa borrowed a page from former President Jacob Zuma’s 2014 State of the Nation Address (SONA) tonight by boasting about the country’s “good story”. President Ramaphosa delivered his speech in his capacity as President of South Africa, but he remains President of the ANC. And wherever his party governs – in councils, provinces […]
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Angola’s Lobito Corridor Is Being Revived – Who Stands to Gain?
The Lobito Corridor has become strategically important in the global scramble for critical resources.
Climate Adaptation Has a New Global Plan. What the Belem Indicators Are and Why They Matter to Africa
For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to climate impacts.
HIV Funding Still Falls Short of Targets After Pledges: What’s at Stake
A mix of domestic revenue generation, efficiency gains and strategic partnerships is essential to sustain and expand HIV programmes despite declining external aid.
Misleading Adjustment Budget Rejected
Speaker, after enduring the Minister’s thirty-five–page marathon of a speech, I walked out not inspired, not reassured, but deeply disappointed.
This year’s adjustment budget is nothing short of an insult to the people of this province.
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US Wants to Run G20 Like Animal Farm
The decision by the new G20 President for the year, the United States, to unilaterally cancel South Africa’s membership is procedurally flawed and disdainful of multilateralism.
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Successful G20 Cleans up Afrikaner Victmisation Dirt
Among the most significant by-products of the country’s successful hosting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit was that it put the disinformation being pedalled by supremacists about “horrible things” being done to White South Africans to bed.
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South Africa’s G20 Presidency: Diplomatic Victory, but a Weak Final Declaration
The G20 2025 declaration issued in Johannesburg will be just empty words unless the endorsements are turned into action.
Thousands Protest to End Violence Against Women
Government classifies GBV and femicide a national disaster, but it’s unclear what policies will follow from this
Gender Inequality Drives GBV
Inequality is a key theme of the historic first African G20 Leader’s Summit this weekend. South African women bear a double inequality: The face of poverty is that of a woman of colour, and ours is among the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman.
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Artists and Activists Take over Joburg Skyline Ahead of G20 Summit
They projected a series of illustrations, demanding urgent action on the global debt crisis and climate accountability
G20 Summit a Charade Amidst Ekurhuleni Collapse
While Ekurhuleni Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza is prancing around the G20 Social Summit, the people of the Metro live in squalor. The Metro has spent R5 million of its own funds on venues such as the Birchwood Hotel and the OR Tambo Conference Centre without budgetary approval or it being provided for in the Metro’s Integrated […]
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GBV: Join the National Shutdown and Let Power Feel the Absence
Every morning, women wake up and choose to keep going, to keep moving through what was done to them. And every morning, this country confronts them with a reminder of just how unsafe they are.
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Johannesburg Metro’s G20 Preparations a Slap in the Face of Residents
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) regards the Johannesburg Metro’s selective approach to infrastructure upgrades ahead of the G20 Summit as a slap in the face of loyal and hardworking taxpayers. While world leaders will see a polished, albeit temporary, image of Johannesburg, residents’ reality is entirely different. Throughout the Metro, roads are riddled with […]
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Land Is Africa’s Best Hope for Climate Adaptation: It Must Be the Focus at COP30
Africa is heavily dependent on agriculture. At this year’s COP30 conference, the continent needs to secure more funding to adapt land to climate disasters.
Where Does Ekurhuleni Plan to Get R5 Million for G20 Social Summit?
During the Ekurhuleni Metro Council’s meeting on Thursday, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) enquired where the R5 million needed to hire venues for the G20 Social Summit will come from. The Summit is set to take place between 18 and 20 November. Around 5 000 delegates are expected to attend the Summit, which focuses […]
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KZN Municipality Battles Skills Shortage as Water Infrastructure Collapses
Stalled water projects mean conditional grants cannot be released
Cancelling Western Cape Parliament for the Premier’s Investment Summit Is an Insult to Democracy
Cancelling a sitting of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament to accommodate an investment summit, one that clearly interests only the executive, is an insult to democracy in this province and places the independence of the legislature at stake.
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