Mashudu Sadike

Senior Journalist

US demands on exemption from South Africa's BEE requirements yet to be addressed with Ramaphosa

Mashudu Sadike|Updated

The Trump administration has called for US entities to be exempt from South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment requirements.

US affording refugee status to fleeing Afrikaners 'disturbs' South Africa government

Mashudu Sadike|Published

President Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump recently spoke, agreeing to meet to resolve tensions. However, the South African government has maintained its ...

Tensions rise within the GNU ahead of next year’s local elections

Mashudu Sadike|Published

Zikalala also took a swipe at Macpherson's educational qualifications, accusing him of only having a matric.

ANC condemns trump’s aid halt as a threat to country’s sovereignty

Mashudu Sadike|Published

Signed on Friday, the order has ignited widespread outrage across the country, sparking fierce discussions about international relations, national sovereignty, and ...

ANC delays reconfiguration plans for Gauteng and KZN provincial committee

Mashudu Sadike|Published

The change of heart comes almost three weeks after the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) resolved to reconfigure the two PECs and committed to reveal the ...

Promises, promises, Sona promises. . .

Siyabonga Sithole , Ashley Lechman , Mashudu Sadike and Theolin Tembo|Published

Speaking outside the Cape Town City hall, Masizole Mnqasela, of the Alliance of Citizens for Change, and a former DA member, emphasised the importance of Ramaphosa ...

Gloves off as Trump and the government square off over land reform

Mashudu Sadike and LUNGANI ZUNGU|Published

Donald Trump and Elon Musk sparked outrage with tweets accusing the SA government of “confiscating” land and perpetuating racist ownership laws.

ANC to rehash provincial leadership committees

Mashudu Sadike|Published

“We had to take a deep dive to say, 'how do we arrest the possibility of a total demise?' In KZN, you can use the term decimation. We are totally decimated,” ANC ...

Shut all spaza shops down

Wendy Jasson Da Costa and Mashudu Sadike|Published

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula wants the government to shut all spaza shops and use the re-registration process to deport undocumented immigrants.

SA must follow the money

Wendy Jasson Da Costa , Mashudu Sadike and Genevieve Serra|Published

Experts are divided on SA’s security after the discovery of a military-style training camp. The big question is: who made the money?

Mayor carried a gun during the violent Limpopo political turf war

Mashudu Sadike|Published

In videos that were trending on social media on Monday, armed groups were seen engaged in a violent confrontation with the ANC during door-to-door election campaigning. ...

Deputy minister pays back stolen cash to ANC ‘donor’

Mashudu Sadike|Published

Believed parties decided to settle out of court after fixer facilitated the deal

It’s going down to the wire. Who will be SA’s next government?

Mashudu Sadike , Siyabonga Sithole and Ntombi Nkosi|Published

During The Star’s political dialogue at the Joburg Theatre on Wednesday, where various political party leaders were in attendance to woo South Africans for their ...

R680 000 ‘family holiday’ in Dubai gives ANC SG Fikile Mbalula sleepless night 8 years later

Mashudu Sadike|Published

AfriForum announced on Wednesday that it would be challenging the National Prosecuting Authority on its 2023 decision not to prosecute Mbalula after a case was laid ...

The country is run from London because CR can’t think for himself – MK Party

Mashudu Sadike|Published

Ngubane said South Africa was still being governed from London.

Lawyer taking the DA to court over flag burning advert hits back at the party

Mashudu Sadike|Published

In his urgent application on the 12th this month, Madikane is seeking for the court to declare the DA to be in gross violation of sections 10(1) and 7 of the Promotion ...

Phala Phala scandal comes back to haunt Ramaphosa days before elections

Mashudu Sadike and Ntombi Nkosi|Published

African Transformation Movement demanded that the Independent Police Investigative Directorate reveal the contents of an investigation report into how police officials ...

Human rights lawyer hauls DA to court over flag-burning ad

Mashudu Sadike|Published

The DA in its campaign ahead of the May 29 elections commissioned an advert depicting the country’s national flag engulfed in flames.

War of words after ANC and EFF political turf war resurfaces in Limpopo

Mashudu Sadike and Ntombi Nkosi|Published

The two groups exchanged fire while some were seen throwing stones at each other during an election door-to-door campaign.

Iranian cultural office in Pretoria reaches out to bolster relations

Mashudu Sadike|Published

Iran has recently joined intergovernmental organisation BRICS that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.

SANParks makes strides to allow communities to claim land back

Mashudu Sadike|Published

The claiming process would allow the entity to engage with the community so that economic opportunities would be available.

Social grants will not win over voters in the elections, study shows

Mashudu Sadike|Published

Social media has been abuzz with videos and pictures of ANC politicians washing and hanging up voters’ clothes to dry while on the campaign trail.

Confirmed! JZ on the ballot paper as South Africans living abroad gear up to vote this weekend

Mashudu Sadike|Published

This after there was widespread confusion regarding the pending Constitutional Court case involving Zuma’s eligibility to stand for Parliament brought to court by ...

More allegations of ANC election list ‘fixing’ surface in Limpopo

Mashudu Sadike|Published

‘The ANC continues to reward friends and those close to leadership,’ says vilified MP Ponani Makhubele who has previously taken the ANC head-on and has vowed subsequent ...

Minister Zizi Kodwa refutes claims of bias at National Arts Council

Mashudu Sadike|Published

ARTS and Culture Minister Zizi Kodwa has refuted accusations made by the South African Roadies Association (Sara) that he protects friends in his appointment of ...