AFRICA FRONT PAGESUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2026 · UPDATED 1 MIN AGO
6,724 HEADLINES TODAY FROM 182 SOURCES ACROSS 45 COUNTRIES
SOUTH AFRICA POLITICS NEWS TODAY
South Africa politics news today: 99 headlines on elections, government, parliament and the courts from the last 48 hours, collected from 9 sources (Daily Maverick, News24, SABC News, The Citizen, TimesLIVE, EWN, eNCA, IOL and BusinessTech), newest first. Headlines are sorted into topics automatically, and every one links straight to the original publisher.
- POLITICS & POLICING: From EFF’s Malema to ANC’s Carrim — the politics permeating SA’s cop collusion scandalDaily Maverick
- Watch – Top Court puts ANC candidates back on ballot after missed deadlineDaily Maverick
- France’s Le Pen launches presidential bid as protests rattle the nationDaily Maverick
- SIGNS OF INCOMPETENCE: IEC under fire after unqualified sign language interpreter used at election workshopDaily Maverick
- ‘What have you done for us?’: Ramaphosa slams criticism against ANC during campaign trailNews24
- Ramaphosa urges skilled South Africans to help tackle inequalitySABC News
- Business and investment key to tackling youth unemployment: ZumaSABC News
- Chikane says some South Africans never accepted democracySABC News
- Cosatu says backing ANC and SACP in local elections not contradictorySABC News
- ‘Why are we not talking about our fellow Europeans?’ – Duduzane Zuma questions anti-illegal immigration sentimentThe Citizen
- PAC aims to secure majority rule in Mnquma Local MunicipalitySABC News
- Duduzane Zuma says father Jacob Zuma is in good healthSABC News
- EFF pledges to end nepotism in municipal recruitmentSABC News
- DA intensifies final campaign push for votes in DurbanSABC News
- DA bogus doctor headache deepens as party accuses sacked councillor of breaking own dealNews24
- Protests flare in Tirana despite new government crackdownTimesLIVE
- ACM to contest in six Free State municipalities: MotsoenengSABC News
- Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is back in VenezuelaTimesLIVE
- Elections 360 | Town Hall Debate in Mogale CitySABC News
- Algeria Senate approves sending troops to Niger: senatorEWN
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- ANC ramps up election campaign in Soweto ahead of municipal pollsEWN
- ANC Cape Town leader steps down as opposition head ahead of local government electionsNews24
- DA closes gap on ANC in latest polleNCA
- SACP vows to restore voices of the poorSABC News
- ‘Like it or not, ANC brought change’: Ramaphosa defends 32-year record amid service delivery concernsIOL
- Mantashe rejects claims ANC has done nothing in 30 yearsIOL
- DA faces tough fight in eThekwinieNCA
- 'We are confident of a victory' - RamaphosaeNCA
- Brazilians cast ballots in tight presidential runoffTimesLIVE
- WATCH | Obama blasts Trump on campaign trail ahead of midtermsTimesLIVE
- MK Party leaders arrive in uMlazi for mini election rallySABC News
- DA Youth chair in KZN confident of making gains in the upcoming LGESABC News
- ‘They mustn’t stay there without hope’: Mbalula backs basic income grant for youth without matricTimesLIVE
- ANC wants to secure Soweto voteseNCA
- Ramaphosa urges Soweto youth to apply for available opportunitiesSABC News
- eNCA MarkData Election Survey | Here's what the results meaneNCA
- eNCA MarkData Election Survey | Tshwane results are ineNCA
- ‘The death of the ANC is the death of our people,’ says MbalulaTimesLIVE
- eNCA MarkData Election Survey | eThekwini results are ineNCA
- Free State principal suspended after allegedly denying learner matric exam access over unpaid feesIOL
- Political parties intensify campaigns ahead of November pollseNCA
- Ramaphosa hails Mangaung cleanup gains as ANC battles to win voter confidenceIOL
- Search continues for 35-year-old man missing after Ballito rip-current incidentIOL
- Former ANC MP Boy Mamabolo vows to push party below 50% in PolokwaneIOL
- Father dies after trying to rescue teenagers at Leentjiesklip Wilderness beachIOL
- SACP to hold its Red October Rally in BushbuckridgeSABC News
- LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: 10 under-30 candidates make a powerful case for their seat in council chambersDaily Maverick
- UPDATE: Tshwane mobilises emergency aid after Salvokop fire destroys 100 shacks, kills oneIOL
- In SUNDAY. 25 October | DA poll: five-metro surge, St Stithians girl controlled, and Sibiya in C-MaxNews24
- South Africa’s Afrikaans ‘university’ wants to make it official, and Julius Malema served with summonses to appear in courtBusinessTech
- Elias Motsoaledi residents demand water and jobs from FF PlusSABC News
- DA’s poll shows it winning in six metros, ANC in catastrophic collapseNews24
- National ANC officials – not regions – to control coalition talksNews24
- Beyond the ballot: How content creation is reshaping local government electionsNews24
- SAPS must ensure elections are conducted in a safe environment: CachaliaEWN
- Medicine shortages worsen a year after Ramaphosa set up task teamNews24
- Why Chikane has been largely absent from the ANC’s election campaignTimesLIVE
- ZOLEKA LISA | The safe booze campaign can’t end when the talking doesTimesLIVE
- TRACY LEDGER | Minister’s promises on energy affordability ring hollowTimesLIVE
- MK eyes Durban majority; DA leads in TshwaneTimesLIVE
- Political parties decry campaign-finance disparities ahead of electionTimesLIVE
- HOGARTH | ‘JZ is back’ as MK Party ousts secretary-generalTimesLIVE
- Jacob Zuma sacks MKP secretary-general days after leaving hospitalTimesLIVE
- IEC in race against time to print 27-million ballots in a weekTimesLIVE
- Nigeria’s Tinubu launches re-election campaignSABC News
- Ramaphosa says service delivery, cleanliness improving in MangaungSABC News
- Hlabisa says mature leadership key to successful coalition govtsSABC News
- Kannaland residents raise service delivery concernsSABC News
- Belgian protesters and police skirmish at anti-government demonstrations in BrusselsTimesLIVE
- Malema calls for free water and electricity for grant beneficiariesSABC News
- MK Party axes Secretary-General Sibonelo NomvaloEWN
- Mashatile officially opens Parly Constituency Office in NtuzumaSABC News
- Fannie Nkosi formally resigns from SAPSIOL
- Mbalula tells voters what ANC plans to delivereNCA
- Over 300 political parties to contest November 4 local elections, says IECEWN
- Ramaphosa promises jobs through economic growth in BloemfonteinSABC News
- MK Party loses bid to challenge order halting impeachment inquiryEWN
- Parliament confident in IEC's readiness to hold LGEEWN
- ATM seeks to intervene in ANC’s late candidate submissions court caseEWN
- EFF demands Nasiphi Moya’s resignation, accuses Tshwane Mayor of ignoring unsafe water warningsIOL