In your South African news today wrap, we’re looking at the release of crime stats, the dollar to rand value, and much more.

COPE leader, Mosiuoa Lekota, says landowners should be compensated.

Gwede, what’s going off?

COPE MP Mosiuoa Lekota used his time during the SONA Debate to focus on land expropriation without compensation. The EFF was not at all happy with the questions he was asking.

Now this seems very fair…

Couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

Controversial comments of a different kind.

Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota called on South Africans to unite – starting with the members of the house.

Opposition MPs weren’t too pleased with “Saxonwold Shebeen” Brian Molefe’s arrival in parly.

Things could be about to get rough, very rough.

Even COPE is bringing the heat in day two of the SONADebate.

The secretary general of the ANC made it very clear that the party won’t fire Zuma, for fear of another COPE or EFF rising.

COPE leader Mosiuoa Lekota says continuing their participation in Parliament is unjustifiable following the failed bid to remove president Jacob Zuma.

For the first time since the end of the struggle, opposition parties are banding together for a common purpose; the removal of a disgraced ANC leadership.

Opposition parties are not taking Collen Maine’s threat of civil war lightly.

NUMSA’s decision to break away from COSATU and the ANC will bring some changes but not fundamental realignment, writes Kameel Premhid

“On behalf of our government, the ruling party, the ANC, the struggle veterans and the people of South Africa in their entirety, I wish to extend a happy 85th birthday wish to Mr Ahmed Kathrada. We wish you good health and a happy life. May you live to see many more,” President Zuma said

The results from the votes are coming in, and while they may hold some small surprises for new players like the EFF it looks like much of the next five years is going to be business as usual

The ANC might just be the all-out winner as well as the biggest loser of the upcoming national election in South Africa on Wednesday. But to what extent are voting patterns likely to change or remain the same in what commentators have called the most exciting election in twenty years?

Following the damning Nkandla report examining South African President Jacob Zuma’s spending on his KwaZulu Natal homestead, we’ve compiled a list of the good, the bad and the downright ugly after the revelations