Mervyn Dirks

Provincial convener Willies Mchunu says the party needs to start building its structures from scratch

Influential committee posts are shared among the members of the province’s governing coalition

Dirks is the first ANC member to be expelled for aligning himself with former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party

Dirks previously irked the ANC when he demanded that president Cyril Ramaphosa be investigated for ethical violations

ANC MPs voted down the Ngcobo report that recommended he face further inquiry over the Phala Phala scandal

The president may not have the support of the entire ANC caucus should a vote of no confidence in him take place

The president, in a letter to a watchdog parliamentary committee, confirmed the authenticity of a leaked recording in which the problem is discussed, but said he was talking only…

We need robust and open discussion about South Africa’s transformation. What we don’t need is ham-fisted attempts at political posturing and calling our judges names

ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has asked Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Ramaphosa’s ‘failure to report corruption’

The presidential bobbing and weaving over ANC campaign funding is about to come to an end

The judiciary is under attack from populists – again – and needs a leader who can balance tensions between rights in the Constitution brilliantly and bravely.