In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction
In its latest policy documents, the ANC is self-critical and wants ‘consequence management’, yet it’s letting its members off the hook again
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Busisiwe Mkhwebane discarded facts that were inconvenient to her when she investigated the CR17 campaign, Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers argued
So says public protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane’s lawyer, who said she had reason to suspect the money was being laundered through the campaign
amaBhungane’s arguments about the disclosure of campaign funding are also expected to be heard
For years, in moves that harked back to the repressive regime of the Nats, the public broadcaster has been used by the party as its political football in internal factional battles, or to censor dissent.
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule is ignoring party policy on corruption-charged officials and taking his battle to branch level, where his ‘slate capture’ strategy is expected to leave Ramaphosa on the ropes
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Amid protests by the ANC’s MK Military Veterans, distressed foreign nationals have shut their stalls at a Durban flea market
The ANC has stalled on setting ground rules for cleanout of comrades accused of corruption
A centralised procurement programme in the province allegedly operated under the former premier
Magashule’s personal assistant is working with prosecutors to reveal how the R255-million cash was moved
In this week’s 96 by-elections, the trend was the ANC held its ground and grew, while the DA lost big, with minority parties eating into its voter base
Careful comrades, the plank is a bit wobbly.
The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements
In this week’s by-elections, the ANC has the highest number of wards being contested. However, the turnout in some communities in areas in the Vaal district has been low — even after the electoral commission said it was ready to welcome voters
The asbestos scam has come back to haunt ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, and he is expected to face the music on Friday in Bloemfontein
If supporters do it for democracy — and not to gain favour — then it needn’t be secret
The minister of environment, forestry and fisheries, likes to watch the British medical drama series Casualty, she tells Sheree Bega
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But high court rules in favour of the eThekwini municipality, as judge decries ‘political point-scoring’
John Steenhuisen and Mbali Ntuli both acknowledged the problems faced by the party over the past year, with each of them offering their own leadership vision.
Leadership failures at Umdoni local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal have caused a ‘very unhappy’ ANC PEC to fire the mayor and chief whip
Covid has propelled citizens into feelings of a new shared identity in which the historical force of ‘whiteness’ is fading into irrelevance
The corruption-fraught metro is coming to grips with having a municipal manager who is on bail for graft, yet has returned to work
Land ownership and its equitable distribution has floundered. Changes to a section of the constitution and the expropriation act are now before parliament, but do they offer any solution?
Parts of the provincial ANC will target their former premier, Magashule, and the Free State PEC in a rolling mass action campaign
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Senekal shows us that we must make a stand against the loud voice of the populist EFF and racist rightwingers
When employees do not give their best, it is the organisation that suffers the most. In the case of government this directly affects citizens
Everybody’s staying pozi, which is making all the arrests easy for the Hawks. Only Ace is desperate to be seen
Despite 6 300 ANC cadres working in government, the party’s integrity committee has done little to deal with its accused members
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In response to Ryno Geldenhuys’s piece Under Mbali Ntuli the DA would offer South Africans a new political home, published in the Mail & Guardian on 13 October
Is the ANC secretary general a gambling man — or just stirring the pot over the ‘news’ of his arrest warrant
Stir well, then let simmer until done.