Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni might have to undergo another hearing, after he pleaded guilty to defrauding Parliament, say senior party members.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report was ”very kind” to Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, says his erstwhile aide and close confidant Walter Felgate.

There were some members of the ANC who feared a working-class political takeover of the country, according to the party’s chief strategist Joel Netshitenzhe. He was speaking at the Joe Slovo Memorial Seminar, organised by the SACP in Johannesburg.

Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has failed in his attempts to ”whitewash history and portray himself as a peace-loving anti-apartheid activist”, say former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) members and investigators.

More than 10 people have been killed over the past three months in political violence in the IFP-controlled tribal area near Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal, according to the ANC. Bheki Cele said the IFP was using traditional leaders as ”party machinery”.

President Mbeki’s ”conciliatory noises” to the ANC’s communist and trade union allies at the weekend have been interpreted as a strategic shift ahead of next year’s elections. Mbeki surprised members of the SACP and the Cosatu by raising the Growth and Development Summit.

The ANC’s national task team has effectively disbanded the party’s Eastern Cape leadership structures, headed by Premier Makhenkesi Stofile. This is despite an undertaking that the provincial executive committee would remain in place until new leadership elections.

The five members of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature who defected to the African National Congress are likely to be accommodated in various positions by the end of next month. With the expunging of the retrospective provision in the draft defection legislation, the five cannot be reinstated in their former positions.

The African National Congress’s climbdown on the floor-crossing law this week – in the face of a threat to dissolve the KwaZulu-Natal legislature and stage a provincial election – came as a devastating blow to the party’s provincial leader, S’bu Ndebele.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has called a special sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature next week to vote on the dissolution of the legislature, in preparation for a provincial election.