The coalition was working towards toppling the IFP through a motion of no confidence in IFP mayors in hung municipalities
Youth league presidential contender Mkhangelwa accuses NEC member Mduduzi Manana of interfering in processes
Ace’s departure is just but a drop in the ocean of what’s needed for the party to renew itself and be relevant to a country that is drifting away
A discussion document prepared for the youth league’s national congress weighs in on the ‘baseload’ debate
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Will Manchester City, like Mzwanele Manyi, pull off a treble this weekend?
Gwamanda was unwell when he delivered his state of the city address and had to be rushed to hospital during the debate following his speech
The team brought in to deal with the financial and administrative morass will present a report once it has been introduced to councillors
The municipality has failed to implement nearly 500 council decisions since 2016
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Mzimuni Ngiba, however, was axed for missing council meetings, not because of the murder charge he is facing
The former MEC is considering his options after state case against him collapsed
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Whatever hope was ignited among investors by the idea of a Ramaphosa presidency has mostly been snuffed out
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There were no surprises at ward level as parties test the waters ahead of 2024
The two leaders are seen as highly influential in KwaZulu-Natal, where the ruling party is bleeding votes
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Misizwe Zulu’s company overcharged the Msunduzi municipality by R100 million for work it did not do
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Collen Malatji, who received an endorsement from Gauteng, is hoping to add more women to the league’s leadership
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The ruling party’s secretary general pushed back against US pressure to pick a side in Russia/Ukraine war
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The Economic Freedom Fighters has switched from the teachings of Fanon and Lenin to the interests of chiefs and kings
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The minister of defence said she was tired of anti-Russian phobia in the country
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In all the bickering that we’ve been through over the past five years, from the long-running saga about the competence of former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to this week’s parliamentary hearings into André de Ruyter’s allegations of corruption at Eskom, it feels as if we aren’t making progress in dealing with the structural fault lines in our country
The government will predictably object that taxpayers are sabotaging transformation, the same old argument whenever they face accountability
The province’s ANC has expelled eight of its members, including five municipal councillors who voted for an EFF member as Speaker
At the 2021 local government elections, neither of the two biggest parties got a mandate to govern alone in Johannesburg
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But the opposition coalition led by the DA can’t stop fighting about who is boss for long enough to agree on a Jozi mayoral candidate
The sugar industry’s struggle tells a bigger story of the risks of South Africa’s deindustrialisation
South Africa is in the dire position of possessing a weak leader and no potential replacements
When macroeconomic policy has so clearly failed workers, and us all, why is a complete overhaul still out of the question?
Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently of the ANC?
When the president merged the mining and energy departments under his most powerful lieutenants he made a decision that would come back to bite him
Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently?
The former Eskom boss has alleged that two senior ANC leaders are involved in corruption at the mismanaged, looted and sabotaged power utility
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula warns Ramaphosa to ‘run his cabinet and not have his cabinet run him’ or they will take action
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has warned of stage 8 load-shedding for up to 152 consecutive days
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