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The Constitutional Court will rule on whether parliament acted lawfully when it rejected a Section 89 panel report recommending an impeachment inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala scandal
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Ramaphosa to crack the whip in the Free State

The president will meet the provincial executive to discuss the state of the province’s municipalities

  • Lunga Mzangwe
1 min read
Own agenda: Polediso Motsoeneng defies orders from above. Photo: ANC Freestate region
ANC

ANC Free State leaders accused of milking troubled municipality

The ANC provincial working committee in the Free State has been accused of defying the party’s deployees in government, resulting in the near collapse of the Matjhabeng local…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
At least 99 voters have deregistered from the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) voter’s roll in the Free State over the past year. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
2021 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

ANC cries sabotage as 99 voters deregister from IEC’s Free State roll amid R7000 bribery allegations

Most people usually simply stay away on voting day

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images
2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Mbalula’s ambitions are ‘sowing divisions’ in the Free State

Sources say the ANC’s latest intervention in the province is aimed at replacing the secretary general’s opponents with loyalists

  • Lunga Mzangwe
11 min read
Mxolisi Dukwana was passed over in favour of Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae in the Free State. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC BRANCHES

Power struggles loom in ANC North West and Free State

Historically, the party has appointed its provincial chairpersons as premiers

  • Lunga Mzangwe
6 min read