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/ 2 December 2024

Ingonyama Trust Board can’t recover R40m ‘loaned’ to its hijacked investment company

The board has lost control over Ingonyama Holdings, run by its former chairperson, Jerome Ngwenya

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 30 October 2024

Land reform minister denies ordering Ingonyama Trust Board members to resign

The Zulu King, who chairs the board, has called for it to be dissolved

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 1 October 2024

‘We are no VBS,’ says Ithala Bank chief executive Thulani Vilakazi

The KwaZulu-Natal state-owned bank is working to overcome its regulatory and legislative issues

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 24 July 2024

Ingonyama Trust Board extends CEO Vela Mngwengwe’s contract despite MisuZulu’s objections

Mngwengwe will remain in the post for another two years

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 17 May 2024

Court bid to curb King MisuZulu’s powers

His uncle, Prince Mbonisi ka Bhekuzulu, has argued in court that Ingonyama Trust funds must be protected pending litigation challenging the king’s accession in the Pretoria high court

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By Lyse Comins

National

/ 3 May 2024

Ingonyama Trust Board rejects Zulu king’s proposal that his lawyers audit the land entity

The Ingonyama Trust Board will appoint a lawyer through a public procurement process

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By Paddy Harper

Podcasts

/ 25 April 2024

LISTEN | If voters compel us to work with the EFF we will, says IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa

Velenkosini Hlabisa also defended the Ingonyama Trust Act, which he said had been beneficial to black people in KwaZulu-Natal

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 5 January 2024

Zulu king braced for royal battles

MisuZulu ka Zwelithini is set to appeal the ruling overturning his recognition – and it doesn’t end there

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 14 December 2023

‘Premature’ to talk about withdrawing Zulu king’s benefits, says presidency

No finding was made by the court on the validity of MisuZulu’s claim to the throne

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 20 November 2023

ITB wants Prince Mbonisi Zulu to pay costs of withdrawn application

The application is part of a brutal legal fight over control of the Zulu kingdom

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 15 November 2023

Royal rumble over Ingonyama Trust heads back to court

The monarch’s uncle wants provincial government to stop his salary and privileges

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 2 November 2023

Ingonyama Trust Board bankrolled Zwelithini’s lavish lifestyle

The ITB bought the late Zulu king a R2.9 million BMW, paid his tax bills and legal fees, as well as the royal family’s transport and accommodation

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 30 October 2023

ITB withdraws appeal in residential leases case

The appeal had been brought by its former chairperson Jerome Ngwenya, who was fired by the Zulu king earlier this year

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 6 October 2023

Court bid to strip Zulu king of power to name Buthelezi successor

The king’s uncle has moved to cut his legal funding and wants the state to stop his salary

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 28 September 2023

Letter firing Ingonyama Trust chairperson is ‘a forgery’

MisuZulu ka Zwelithini wants an investigation into an attempt to create instability in the Zulu kingdom

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 15 September 2023

Buthelezi fought for 50 years to control how his story was told

The founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s greatest fear was to be recorded as being on the wrong side of history

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 15 September 2023

Buthelezi made the Ingonyama Trust, but lost influence over it in the end

The Zulu traditional prime minister and his king quarrelled over the trust during his final months

By Paddy Harper

National

/ 9 September 2023

IFP founder Mangosuthu Buthelezi has died

An accomplished orator, historian and custodian of Zulu tradition and culture, Buthelezi was perhaps one of the most contradictory figures in South African politics

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 4 July 2023

Buthelezi poisoning claims suggest lost influence over Zulu monarchy

The spat with King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini may hurt the Inkatha Freedom Party at the polls next year

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 26 June 2023

ANC Youth League wants government to change land programme to avoid creating ‘rural elite’

Chrispin Phiri has opted out of the league’s leadership contest but still hopes to influence the organisation through its national executive committee

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By Lizeka Tandwa

National

/ 29 May 2023

Buthelezi backtracks on threat to dump Zulu king

The Ingonyama Trust Board is set to meet again this week despite Buthelezi’s demand that Jerome Ngwenya be reinstated as the chairperson

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 22 May 2023

Thoko Didiza appoints new Ingonyama Trust Board to administer land for Zulu king

The appointments are to go ahead despite a revolt by Mangosuthu Buthelezi and axed board chairperson Jerome Ngwenya

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 2 May 2023

New Ingonyama boss starts work despite Jerome Ngwenya’s attempted revolt

King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini’s nominee has hit the ground running, while the axed Ngwenya seeks to be reinstated

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 25 April 2023

Ingonyama Trust chairperson defies Zulu king’s decision to fire him

Jerome Ngwenya is now challenging the decision to appoint an interim board in court

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 20 April 2023

Ingonyama Trust Board gets a new chairperson

The nomination of Inkosi Thanduyise Mzimela by the Zulu king clears the way for a permanent board to be appointed

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 8 April 2023

Nehawu calls for Ingonyama Trust Board forensic audit

Union questions dubious R41 million investment at a time when workers are being retrenched and others have not been paid

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 24 March 2023

The Zulu king’s land trust goes public on its finances

The Zulu king wants transparency with regards to the board’s dealings

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By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 24 March 2023

Development billions promised to Ingonyama Trust ‘go missing’

A European ‘investor’ was meant to have made an initial transfer of R12 billion into the board’s South African Reserve Bank account

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 16 March 2023

King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini steps in over missing Ingonyama Trust R41m

The monarch wants transparency and public participation in the land body’s operations and finances

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 10 March 2023

Ingonyama Trust’s R41m ‘is gone, next move is to drain its coffers’

The board ‘noted’ concerns and one member’s resignation over the payments, but went ahead anyhow

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By Paddy Harper

National

/ 2 December 2022

Ingonyama Trust Board is unaccountable: Parliament

Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza says a new board will be in place by mid-January

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