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/ 14 March 2025

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

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By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 21 February 2025

Confusion reigns over ANC rejig

Reconfiguration or dissolution? Moves against Gauteng and KZN leaders leaves party in disarray

By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 21 January 2025

ANC election commission secretary Matsila urges members not to elect ‘faces with the same problems’

The party wants people deployed in government to have tertiary qualifications

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By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 7 January 2025

Ramaphosa: ANC still discussing disbanding Gauteng, KZN executive committees

The party is expected to discuss the matter at its upcoming national executive committee meeting, set for next week

By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 10 December 2024

ANC won’t recall SACP ministers over decision to contest 2026 local government elections

The ANC has put off the decision on how it will intervene in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal until next month

By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 28 November 2024

ANC Gauteng provincial committee might face the chop — but KZN could survive

Sources said the party’s national executive committee is set to finalise the possible dissolution of the two provincial bodies at its next meeting in two weeks

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By Lunga Mzangwe and Mandisa Nyathi

Politics

/ 2 November 2024

ANC strengthens integrity muscle

Members will be vetted and undergo political education to help the party clean its house

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By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 28 October 2024

Ramaphosa: ANC members who failed to appear before the integrity commission over state capture to face disciplinary action

Changes to the integrity commission hope to reaffirm it as the custodian of the ANC’s values, ethics and organisational discipline

By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 25 October 2024

ANC NEC to discuss strengthening step-aside guidelines, empowering integrity commission

Veterans league president Snuki Zikalala said if members ‘stepped on the toes’ of the integrity commission, there must be immediate consequences

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By Lunga Mzangwe

Politics

/ 6 June 2024

ANC: ‘We are talking to everybody’

The party’s national executive committee will decide who it will partner with – and how – on Thursday

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 17 May 2024

ANC is confident of Gauteng

In-house studies show that the party could still get over half of the vote in the elections

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 13 May 2024

Mbeki to boost ANC Eastern Cape’s ambitious 80% election target

The party’s provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi believes that reaching this target and helping the party retain its national majority are high

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 21 April 2024

Ramaphosa tells ANC it needs 14 million votes to win elections outright, as party marshalls ministers to tout successes

During an NEC meeting, the party said all its ministers and provincial MECs must aggressively communicate success stories and urged the government to link its programmes with the ANC

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 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

/ 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

/ 29 November 2023

Limpopo is ‘best performing province in ANC list process’

Electoral committee secretary Chief Matsila says the process is airtight and the provincial secretary could not have tampered with it

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 28 October 2023

Veterans should lead the ANC’s renewal, says Chikane

The ANC embarked on a programme of renewal in 2017 after it emerged that it had been complicit in state capture.

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 14 March 2023

Zuko Godlimpi: ANC may lose 2024 elections over energy crisis

The ANC’s economic transformation committee deputy chair said the party would have difficulty justifying why it should return to power if load-shedding continued

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 1 March 2023

Ramaphosa to reshuffle his cabinet in ‘a matter of days’ says spokesperson

The announcement comes just hours after deputy president David Mabuza resigns from parliament

By Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 12 September 2022

Mashatile blamed as ANC’s NEC hears 20 000 party members were removed from the Eastern Cape

Provinces are set to meet national leaders after discrepancies are raised over the membership process at a special NEC meeting

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 19 August 2022

ANC integrity commission calls for Mkhize’s suspension, labels Kodwa a ‘liar’

The ANC’s integrity commission has criticised the party’s officials and the national executive committee for suppressing and ignoring its recommendations in its annual report

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 30 July 2022

Mantashe accused of undermining delegates on first day of policy conference

The ANC chairperson allegedly accused delegates of wanting to collapse the conference after calls to assess the NEC’s performance

By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 24 July 2022

ANC KwaZulu-Natal slams Zondo, NEC and judiciary in organisational report, defends Zuma

There was a strong view, according to the report, that the judiciary was overstepping, undermining other arms of the state and using the law based on feelings instead of facts, especially in the jailing of Zuma

By Lizeka Tandwa

National

/ 13 July 2022

ANC releases rules of engagement for December conference

Kgalema Motlanthe to review financial records of those campaigning for the ANC’s top six during silly season

By Lizeka Tandwa

Opinion

/ 25 May 2022

Clouds gathering as Safa approaches presidential elections

There are some members of the body’s national executive committee who are backing the re-election of Jordaan as the Safa president unopposed.

By Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela

Politics

/ 19 May 2022

Ramaphosa allies in KwaZulu-Natal fail to bring any wins in regional conferences

Premier Sihle Zikalala’s special adviser, Nhlanhla Ngidi, will challenge him for the position of ANC provincial chairperson

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By Lizeka Tandwa and Paddy Harper

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

/ 29 April 2022

‘I support Ramaphosa, not Zweli’ – Eastern Cape’s Babalo Madikizela

The provincial chair contender Babalo Madikizela insists that talks of his support for Zweli Mkhize as ANC president are nothing but rumour

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By Lizeka Tandwa

Politics

/ 29 April 2022

Will step-aside 2.0 bolster Zweli Mkhize’s presidential ambitions? Possibly.

As the former health minister attempts to consolidate support in KZN, the amendment will likely gain him favour in the coalition of wounded party members

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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

Podcasts

/ 14 February 2022

PODCAST: How members of the ANC were pivotal to the conceptualisation of the EFF

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

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Politics

/ 6 December 2021

Former struggle veteran Ebrahim Ebrahim dies

The ANC has hailed the former struggle veteran and party stalwart as a committed patriot

By Lizeka Tandwa

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