The government is appealing to the public and the media to cease speculating about the health condition of former president Jacob Zuma, who has been admitted to a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal. With little to no information formally shared, media outlets and members of the public have been left to speculate, while Zuma’s new political party, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), insists that he is in hospital only for a routine check-up. Questions about Zuma’s health arose during Sunday’s media briefing by the…

A lack of coordination within Cabinet may have contributed to the latest immigration chaos, which saw foreign nationals arriving in large numbers at refugee offices, believing they would be granted automatic asylum or citizenship. Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni revealed that, after incorrectly interpreting a Constitutional Court judgment, the Department of Home Affairs issued directives to its staff without consulting the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration (IMC). She believes this created a national security threat. The IMC briefed the media…

Foreign nationals who arm themselves and fire shots at citizens or police pose a threat to the country’s security and will face a strong response from law enforcement agencies. This is the warning from South Africa’s Acting Police Minister, Firoz Cachalia, who was responding to several incidents in which groups of foreign nationals allegedly fired shots at anti-migrant protesters. Cachalia was part of the South African Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration’s media briefing in Pretoria on Sunday. He warned both migrants…