African Transformation Movement
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Vuyo Zungula set to be announced as ATM's Johannesburg mayoral candidate
The parliamentary leader of the African Transformation Movement (ATM), Vuyo Zungula, is poised to become the party’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate, a decision reportedly made by…
‘I will not resign’, Ramaphosa says
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not resign despite a Constitutional Court ruling that reopened the door to a parliamentary impeachment inquiry over the Phala Phala scandal
‘Judges are not above scrutiny’: MK Party and ATM push for lifestyle audits
The political parties are calling for judges to undergo lifestyle audits, citing accountability concerns, judicial overreach and the delayed Phala Phala judgment
Inside the EFF Free State plot to remove Maluti-a-Phofung mayor
In a voice note obtained by the Mail & Guardian, a senior EFF leader is heard saying they would give councillors different coloured pens to identify how they voted and that…
Calls for Xhakaza’s head in Ekurhuleni
The discontent within ANC has unfolded alongside political negotiations in council, where the EFF has made Xhakaza’s removal one of the conditions for supporting a…
EXCLUSIVE: ANC offers DA council speaker position in Ekurhuleni, sidelines EFF and ActionSA
If the Democratic Alliance declined the position, the African Transformation Movement would be next in line, sources said
Mchunu’s troubles deepen as party calls for probe into KZN task team shutdown
The African Transformation Movement claims the police minister sabotaged the team investigating political killings and protected politically connected suspects
Zungula removed as ATM leader because of his ‘growing popularity’, say party insiders
Sources said that despite Vuyo Zungula being a member of the African Transformation Movement’s national executive committee, he was not at the meeting that resolved to remove him…
African Transformation Movement replaces president in bid to grow party
Caesar Nongqunga is the ATM’s new president, while Vuyolwethu Zungula remains the parliamentary leader
Malema: Zuma’s MK party wants to undermine EFF under the guise of ‘black unity’
Parties such as Xiluva, and the South African Rainbow Alliance have recently been absorbed by uMkhonto weSizwe party
Malema denies negotiating with ANC on VAT increase
The Democratic Alliance has suggested cutting government budgets for advertising, travel and catering, and a freeze on hiring for non-essential positions to make up the budget…
No services, no jobs, as businesses flee Free State municipality
Wrangling in the ANC, incompetence and corruption have brought the council close to collapse
MK party wants to lead oral argument in its challenge to 29 May election result
Jacob Zuma’s party says oral evidence will assist the court in understanding its ‘technical’ argument
Ousted Joburg MMC Kabelo Gwamanda ‘wasting time and money by challenging his removal in court’
Sources in the city’s executive believe the former mayor has become a ‘liability’ for the Johannesburg council
The mayor-go-round must stop
The government of national unity is working at a national level, but the same cannot be said about municipal coalition governments