Cyril Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe had to leave the national executive committee meeting where only five NEC members supported the adoption of the integrity commission report
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The ruling party seems to have failed to remove tainted people from its parliamentary lists
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ANC leaders including Pravin Gordhan, Angie Motsekga and Lindiwe Zulu have been left off the list
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Sisisi Tolase suffered her first loss since becoming women’s league president with her allies failing to bring back a win in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal
Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction
The president wants women to push for 40% of government procurement for female entrepreneurs
Bathabile Dlamini’s prospects of a politically resuscitation have all but disappeared with the election of Sisisi Tolashe
A bottleneck in registering delegates delayed the conference proceedings
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s allies have kickstarted their campaigns, with names such as Tina Joemat-Pettersson also expected to stand for top positions
Comrade Carl joins the Outside Delegates as those on the conference floor earn their Christmas bonus
The jailed fraudster says his criminal record has been expunged and that the step-aside rule can’t be applied retrospectively
Disgruntled would-be national executive committee members are going to court over their failure to make the top 200 names
This is a fatal blow for the former women’s league leader, shortly before the ruling party’s national elective conference
The presidential hopeful has called into question the legality of the league’s disbandment, arguing it was done to manipulate the December conference
Some leaders said that Dlamini-Zuma had received her due support from women and it was now Sisulu’s turn for a position in the presidency
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Mere forgiving and forgetting based on a lack of political will, incompetence, laziness, corrupt motives or even universal love, is not on
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Women’s league heavyweights such as Bathable Dlamini might not have any leeway to exert power and influence in the election of the new ANC leadership
The women in the NEC are said to have fought tooth and nail to have Dlamini brought back after she was pulled out by officials.Â
The NWC has recommended two other names to help Mbete as task team convenor, but Bathabile Dlamini failed to make the cut
Pundits weigh in on whether the league can be revived after its national executive committee was disbanded
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NEC member Thandi Modise earlier this month recommended that the women’s league be disbanded because it was a fractured structure
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is said to have been among the voices that spoke against the amendment
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ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Sihle Zikalala lays down the law, warning factions to stop destroying the party.
The ANC Women’s League president has said she is ready to continue leading the organisation
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ANC Women’s League president accompanied her defence to pay R20 000 of a R200 000 deferred fine after Friday’s judgment.
The league – upset that those in power ‘forget the women’s agenda’ once elected – is unsure whether to support any candidate at the party’s December conference
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As the president of the body, Bathabile Dlamini’s guilty verdict imperils the existence of the league
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The women’s league is grappling with another scandal involving R2-million missing from its North West province kitty.
The ANC women’s league heard calls for it to be disbanded and for Bathabile Dlamini to step aside during its national working committee meeting last week.
The tourism minister will have to jockey with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Zweli Mkhize for a presidential nomination.
Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appoints new boards because the structures were ‘wracked with infighting, rapid and frequent leadership changes, poor governance, corruption and loss of technical capacity’
The court heard how the state is unable to make travel and accommodation arrangements for its witnesses because it cannot contact them reliably