The election of of AfD politician Tobias Rauch as President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has caused a stir. For the first time, the 35-year-old is a politician from the party classified by some as right-wing extremist in the federal state heads a parliament. According to a media report, BMW no longer intends to…
Cape Town – Cape Town Metro Police officers opened fire during a dramatic vehicle stop in Sea Point on Wednesday morning after a confrontation with suspected abalone poachers escalated into a short high-speed chase that ended with five arrests. Dramatic video footage circulating on social media shows officers boxing in a vehicle outside the Point…
The City of Cape Town has issued an urgent call for residents in several southern and western suburbs to reduce their water consumption while emergency repairs are underway on a major pipeline in Claremont, Cape {town} Etc reports. The City’s Water and Sanitation team began attending to repairs on an 810mm-diameter pipeline on Tuesday, 29 September…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to remain in office and push forward with economic reforms following historic electoral defeats for his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in state elections held on September 20, 2026. The CDU suffered severe losses in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin, with exit polls showing the party falling to just 5% in…
Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦@ConCaracal Farm murders are the only violent crime encouraged and romanticised by politicians through chants like “Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer” – a chant the president refuses to condemn as hateful, wrong, and unacceptable, and even defends.Farm murders are the only violent crime the existence of is flat-out denied by the president…
South Africa’s political landscape has been rocked by revelations contained in an internal ANC forensic report, which sheds light on the administrative chaos behind the party’s failure to submit candidate lists for six municipalities ahead of the November 4 elections. A Crisis of Competence Rather than blaming the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), as previously suggested…
The political and administrative leadership of the Knysna Local Municipality has collapsed following the arrests of former mayor Thando Matika, acting municipal manager Boy Ngubo, and acting chief financial officer Busisiwe Lubelwana on corruption charges. The South African Police Service (SAPS) Political Killings Task Team executed the arrests on Thursday, October 1, 2026, following allegations…
