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/ 8 March 2024

UPDATED: Mbeki provisionally okays inclusion of corruption-accused in ANC elections list, to meet IEC deadline

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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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 8 March 2024

ANC state capture brigade set to make the cut

The ruling party seems to have failed to remove tainted people from its parliamentary lists

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By Lizeka Tandwa, Lunga Mzangwe and Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 5 March 2024

Tainted ANC leaders Zweli Mkhize, Gwede Mantashe, Bathabile Dlamini, Zandile Gumede top its parliamentary list

ANC leaders including Pravin Gordhan, Angie Motsekga and Lindiwe Zulu have been left off the list

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 7 August 2023

Bathabile Dlamini allies win big at ANCWL provincial conferences

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

By Lizeka Tandwa

/ 28 July 2023

Editorial: Mourn not the demise of RET

Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction

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Politics

/ 24 July 2023

Ramaphosa calls on ANC women to secure victory in the 2024 elections

The president wants women to push for 40% of government procurement for female entrepreneurs

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 23 July 2023

Ramaphosa camp solidifies strength in ANCWL with Tolashe presidency

Bathabile Dlamini’s prospects of a politically resuscitation have all but disappeared with the election of Sisisi Tolashe

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 22 July 2023

Bury the demon of factionalism, ANCWL’s Baleka Mbete tells conference delegates

A bottleneck in registering delegates delayed the conference proceedings

By Paddy Harper

National

/ 3 May 2023

Sisisi Tolashe versus Bathabile Dlamini for ANC Women’s League president

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s allies have kickstarted their campaigns, with names such as Tina Joemat-Pettersson also expected to stand for top positions

By Lizeka Tandwa

Opinion

/ 13 December 2022

It’s Zweli Mkhize vs Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC conference

Comrade Carl joins the Outside Delegates as those on the conference floor earn their Christmas bonus

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 13 December 2022

Tony Yengeni appeals ban on standing for election at the ANC conference

The jailed fraudster says his criminal record has been expunged and that the step-aside rule can’t be applied retrospectively

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 12 December 2022

Carl Niehaus gets the chop as ANC cracks down ahead of conference

Disgruntled would-be national executive committee members are going to court over their failure to make the top 200 names

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 8 December 2022

Bathabile Dlamini barred from nominations as ANC NEC member

This is a fatal blow for the former women’s league leader, shortly before the ruling party’s national elective conference

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 16 November 2022

ANC Women’s League disbandment was unlawful, says Lindiwe Sisulu

The presidential hopeful has called into question the legality of the league’s disbandment, arguing it was done to manipulate the December conference

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 9 October 2022

ANC’s most powerful women conclude on backing Sisulu ahead of NDZ during weekend meeting, say insiders

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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By Lizeka Tandwa

Opinion

/ 5 August 2022

For the law to rule, it must be applied

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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By Johann van der Westhuizen

Politics

/ 12 July 2022

ANC women’s league unlikely to elect new leaders before party holds December national conference

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

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 5 July 2022

Bathabile Dlamini reinstated in ANC Women’s League task team

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.

By Lizeka Tandwa

Top Six

/ 21 June 2022

ANC recommends Baleka Mbete as head of ANCWL task team

The NWC has recommended two other names to help Mbete as task team convenor, but Bathabile Dlamini failed to make the cut

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 6 May 2022

Is the ANC Women’s League dying a slow death?

Pundits weigh in on whether the league can be revived after its national executive committee was disbanded

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 26 April 2022

Bathabile Dlamini’s last-ditch attempt to save ANCWL thwarted

NEC member Thandi Modise earlier this month recommended that the women’s league be disbanded because it was a fractured structure

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 26 April 2022

ANC to strengthen step-aside rule after fiery NEC meeting

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is said to have been among the voices that spoke against the amendment

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 10 April 2022

ANC’s key eThekwini conference deadlocks over which delegates can vote

ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Sihle Zikalala lays down the law, warning factions to stop destroying the party.

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 6 April 2022

Bathabile Dlamini lives to fight another day as the top six blink first

The ANC Women’s League president has said she is ready to continue leading the organisation

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 1 April 2022

‘The devil is a liar’: Bathabile Dlamini pays for perjury

ANC Women’s League president accompanied her defence to pay R20 000 of a R200 000 deferred fine after Friday’s judgment.

By Tunicia Phillips

Politics

/ 22 March 2022

ANC Women’s League might not back anyone at party’s elective conference

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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By Lizeka Tandwa

National

/ 12 March 2022

ANC Women’s League could dissolve following Dlamini verdict

As the president of the body, Bathabile Dlamini’s guilty verdict imperils the existence of the league

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By Tshegofatso Mathe and Lizeka Tandwa

National

/ 21 February 2022

ANC Women’s League to investigate missing R10-million

The women’s league is grappling with another scandal involving R2-million missing from its North West province kitty.

By Lizeka Tandwa

National

/ 21 February 2022

Bathabile Dlamini resists calls to step aside as ANC Women’s League president

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.

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 21 January 2022

Sisulu launches ANC president bid, but ‘radical economic transformation’ faction not convinced yet

The tourism minister will have to jockey with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Zweli Mkhize for a presidential nomination.

By Lizeka Tandwa and Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 29 November 2021

Bathabile Dlamini one of the axed in major housing entity shake-up

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’

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 25 November 2021

Dlamini perjury case ‘dilly-dallies’ as state fails to bring witnesses

The court heard how the state is unable to make travel and accommodation arrangements for its witnesses because it cannot contact them reliably

By Eunice Masson