KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu has resigned after being asked to do so by provincial and national ANC structures.
We round up quotes that show how President Zuma differs with other ANC members on key issues: state capture, cabinet appointments and SAA.
Management remains committed to honouring the payouts in the wake of the accident but says what is owed to miners must be settled first.
How Zuma’s quotes are at odds with others’.
His fate lies between whether his ANC political opponents can oust him or if economic pressure and public opinion will push the ruling party to act.
The operation has now passed the 48-hour mark and officials say they are concerned that they have not yet made contact with the missing workers.
Rescuers have resumed attempts to free two rock drill operators who were trapped 800m underground yesterday.
The chance that the miners trapped underground at Vantage Goldfields’s Lily Mine will be found alive has faded along with the miners’ tapped signals.