In case you missed it: 72 906 foreign nationals repatriated | ATM takes impeachment ruling to ConCourt | Is South Africa due for a name change?

In today’s news, the Border Management Authority has processed the repatriation of 72 906 foreign nationals at all its ports of entry from 7 June to 14 July 2026 for various nationalities. In other news, Vuyo Zungula and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) are not backing down on the Phala Phala matter and have now applied for an urgent direct appeal to the Constitutional Court to review a ruling made by the Western Cape High Court. Furthermore, an advocacy group says it’s time South Africa changed its name.

Azania is their preferred alternative to South Africa, reviving the sentiments adopted by liberation movements during apartheid. The South African Weather Service (Saws) has issued a yellow level 1 warning for damaging coastal wind and waves between Cape Columbine and Cape Agulhas on Monday.Full weather forecast here. Stay up to date withThe Citizen– More News, Your Way.

The High Court on Friday granted Ramaphosa an interim order to halt the impeachment inquiry until a verdict is made on his own challenge of the Section 89 panel’s report on the Phala Phala matter. The President’s separate review wishes to overturn the report’s conclusion that he had questions to answer regarding the almost R10 million stolen from his Phala Phala farm in 2020. Reverend Dr Allan Boesak, senior counsel Dr Muzi Sikhakhane, Professor Isaac Shai and Arthur Fraser launched the movement in Sandton on Friday.

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Sikhakhane said Vuka Azania was not a political party and stressed there were “varied paths to agitating for change” in South Africa. Boesak argued that the country’s colonial history had led to a “spiritual degradation of the African people” that underpinned South Africa’s social ills.

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