The Economic Freedom Fighters leader also said his deputy, Floyd Shivambu, should be made minister of finance because he has not stolen anything
Multi party coalition member are split on how they will handle a failure to get more than 50% of the vote
Deputy Minister Parks Tau reiterated the government’s stance that medical aid tax breaks will be forfeited to fund the proposed universal health care plan
The ActionSA Eastern Cape chairperson said coalitions had become transactional deals to satisfy politics of the stomach
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The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said the party’s secretary general, Marshall Dlamini, would replace Shivambu as its national deployee in the province
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The EFF leader has said that the door was still open to collaboration with the DA and MK parties after the elections, but not with Ramaphosa
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Political analysts believe that EFF’s growth in KwaZulu-Natal will be marginal
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But the Economic Freedom Fighters leader and five other fighters will still have to watch the State of the Nation address on the big screen
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Senior leaders in KwaZulu-Natal say scandal findings are too big to shake off
The Economic Freedom Fighters deputy president failed to declare money transferred to him from a company owned by his brother, known as a VBS Mutual Bank beneficiary
But the party contends it has moved on from internal strife and is focused on the 2024 polls
Talk of discontent in the party over Julius Malema’s leadership and a split between him and his deputy has been dismissed by the commander-in-chief
Growth in next year’s election will kill off any threat to the EFF president’s hold on the party
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Shivambu gave Julius Malema his flowers two days after the EFF leader warned those conspiring to oust him of his ruthlessness
MPs must find a way to handle André de Ruyter’s allegations and a protected disclosure accusing Pravin Gordhan of wrongdoing in the SAA sale
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Our uncle in the load-shedding business sits on his couch and faces zero accountability
The president will be back in the National Assembly on 29 September to face questions about the theft of foreign currency from his game farm
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Opposition parties protested that the law does not allow the president to evade questions from elected representatives
Ponatshego Mogaladi, former manager of investigations at the public protector, told parliament the Economic Freedom Fighters leader sent her the report in 2018
The joint committee on ethics and members’ interests released it registry of gifts given to MPs and ministers
South Africa has taken a China-like stance of “quiet diplomacy” on the Russian war on Ukraine, urging citizens not to “take sides”, the deputy minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Candith Mashego-Dlamini, said during a parliamentary debate on the economic impact of the conflict on Tuesday. “As [the] government of South Africa, we urge all […]
The M&G politics journalists Lizeka Tandwa and Paddy Harper chat with EFF leader Julius Malema, reflecting on the 10 years after he was expelled from the ANC and his impact on the EFF and on South African politics
The EFF president says he has grown — and matured — along with the country’s third-largest party
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Opposition leaders hit out at ANC over social media fracas, saying residents of Enoch Mgijima municipality deserve better
The EFF has made bold promises to root out corruption in ailing municipalities and redistribute land to the poor ahead of this year’s local government elections.
Speaking in the national assembly after Ace Magashule tried to ‘suspend’ him, the president told the DA he keeps quiet when internal strife hits the opposition.
Magashule’s group and ANC outsiders have made moves to get the president and others to also stand aside
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Public enterprises minister denies that he tried to influence the appointment of a judge and friend to the SCA in 2016
Busisiwe Mkhwebane ‘allowed her important office to be used to try and resuscitate a long-dead fake news propaganda fiction’, the court ruled
Kenny Motsamai, a parolee who is also an EFF MP, could be sent back to jail if correctional services finds he violated his parole conditions
The flow of money from VBS Bank would seem to suggest that the EFF’s second-in-command was an ultimate beneficiary of proceeds of a crime