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Msunduzi City Hall.

Tampering scandal halts top Msunduzi appointment

An internal investigation has been launched by the municipality following claims of interfering with recruitment documents

South African comedian  Thanasagren Rubbanathan Moodley, commonly known as Karou Charou, founded the 1860NIC Congress. (Photo supplied)

New KZN political party to champion rights of Indians

The party will challenge the 2026 local elections and is eligible to contest by-elections in KZN until then

ANC KZN chairman Siboniso Duma.(Photo by Gerhard Duraan/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC intensifies renewal drive as it fights to win back KwaZulu-Natal

The party has vowed to regain the support it lost to former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party in the May election

Former South African President and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party leader Jacob Zuma looks on during a press conference in Sandton, Johannesburg on August 22, 2024. (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)

Jacob Zuma lambastes hecklers at funeral of MK party supporters

The former president compared the behaviour of the members to the ANC, saying they should rather ‘face the enemy’

Around the world, women continue to face structural barriers in accessing justice systems that are often expensive, complex, slow and, at times, retraumatising

KZN government continues costly legal battle against former top official despite futile case

In his ruling, the presiding judge characterised the Office of The Premier’s attitude as amounting to betrayal

The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal

DA accuses MK party of plotting to collapse service delivery in KwaZulu-Natal

The accusation comes after the MK party in legislature voted against the approval of all provincial department budgets in recent portfolio committee meetings

Former ANC KwaZulu-Natal deputy chairperson, Mike Mabuyakhulu. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Mike Mabuyakhulu warns ANC to adapt to new political era or die

The liberation party has fallen victim to its own success, said the former provincial deputy chairperson

Misuzulu warns KZN government of treating Zulu nation ‘with disdain’ as praise singer contract is terminated

Inyosi Buzetsheni Mdletshe, who was also the Imbongi of the late Goodwill Zwelithini, has been a royal family praise singer since 1977

Former KZN MEC Valentin Volker (91) weighs in on former President Jacob Zuma standing on the IEC ballot. Photo: Nqubeko Mbhele

Veteran politician believes Zuma will be red-carded after election

91-year-old Valentin Volker served as a National Party MP and in the KZN Legislature

The MKP’s Mervyn Dirks led its MPLs out of the legislature chamber in Pietermaritzburg in protest against the election of the whips and committee chairs going ahead. Photo  supplied

ANC expels Mervyn Dirks for cosying up to MK party

Dirks is the first ANC member to be expelled for aligning himself with former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party

African National Congress (ANC) supporters hold fabric with a picture of South African president and president of the ANC Cyril Ramaphosa on during the 112th ANC anniversary rally in Mbombela on January 13, 2024. (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP)

ANC is ‘cruising to victory’, Ramaphosa tells volunteers

The president said opposition parties ‘will be defeated’ in the upcoming elections

Makhosi Khoza. File photo

Is Makhosi Khoza joining the MK party?

Khoza raised eyebrows after posting a recent photograph of herself and her once stated nemesis, Jacob Zuma, on social media

King Misuzulu KaZwelithini. (Photo by Gallo) Images/Darren Stewart)

New Zulu nation prime minister is not my spokesperson, says Misuzulu

Misuzulu kaZwelithini has made it clear that the duties of Thulasizwe Buthelezi do not include those of communication

Former president Jacob Zuma at an MK event in Pietermaritzburg. Photo: Prashalan Govender

Fears MK party could stoke ethnic violence

Political analyst says there are worrying signs the party could mobilise on a narrow nationalistic impulse

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa

Showdown looms as voters register

IEC records bumper registration weekend as voter’s roll exceeds 27 million for the first time since 1994

President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC leadership in KZN visited eBuhleni to meet Nazareth Baptist Church leader Nyazilwezulu Shembe and bring gifts to the leader. Photo: Supplied

Ramaphosa promises state will build houses for Shembe congregants

The president’s visit and promise of housing is seen as an effort to garner ANC votes over the MK party ahead of elections

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Ramaphosa vows to crush construction mafia in KZN

Invasion of construction sites and intimidation have been cited as reasons for delayed infrastructure projects

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo

It would be ‘unwise’ not to vote for ANC, says Zuma

The former president said the ANC was the only party able to bring ‘real change’ to South Africa

Police officers on guard at the magistrate’s court in Durban. File photo

KZN cop killings: Organised crime is the enemy

According to an expert on violence prevention, SAPS must move resources from the VIP protection unit to organised crime prevention

Rubbish litters the landscape of Bekkersdal.  (Paul Botes/M&G)

ANC to ‘assist’ municipalities with unspent grant money

Deputy Cogta minister Parks Tau said the perception that the ANC didn’t deliver was ‘manufactured’