BREAKING NEWS | Herman Mashaba named ActionSA Joburg Mayoral candidate
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BREAKING NEWS | Herman Mashaba named ActionSA Joburg Mayoral candidate

SOWETO -"EN-GB">ActionSA has announced its leader, Herman Mashaba, as the party's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg in the upcoming Local Government Elections. Mashaba, who served as Johannesburg mayor from 2016 to 2019, was unveiled in Soweto after emerging as the preferred candidate from a shortlist of five. The 2026 mayoral race is expected to be fiercely contested. The City of Gold faces mounting issues including infrastructure decay, service delivery failures and a worsening water crisis. Mashaba said his campaign will focus squarely on fixing the city ,
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Schumer predicts ‘long, painful and tedious’ Trump speech as dozens of Democrats plan to boycott – live
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Schumer predicts ‘long, painful and tedious’ Trump speech as dozens of Democrats plan to boycott – live

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Hillary Clinton to testify in House oversight committee’s Epstein investigation – US politics live
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Hillary Clinton to testify in House oversight committee’s Epstein investigation – US politics live

Democrats on oversight committee call for Trump to be deposed 'immediately'Democrats on the House oversight committee called for Donald Trump to be deposed before the committee “immediately,” making this demand as Hillary Clinton appeared before the committee for closed-door testimony and said she had never met Jeffrey Epstein. “We should depose the person that is mentioned in the Epstein files almost more than any other person, next to Ghislaine Maxwelland that’s Donald Trump,” Robert Garciathe ranking Democrat on the committee, said at a press conference Thursday afternoon. Other Democrats on the committee said commerce secretary Howard Lutnickwho has ties to Epstein, and FBI director Kash Patelwho could shed light on the agency’s interviews with a woman who accused Trump of assault, should both come before the committee for testimony. “America is watching,” said Yassamin Ansaria Democrat representative from...
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