In a statement, the DA said it noted Balindlela’s "misguided" decision to join the ANC again.
Long time foes became friends, and even each others’ praise singers, as former Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Balindlela joined the DA on Tuesday.
Former Congress of the People and ANC MP Nosimo Balindlela has joined the Democratic Alliance, the party’s leader Helen Zille has announced.
Enoch Godongwana has quit as a deputy minister amid a scandal over missing unionists’ pension funds. We trace his rise and fall in SA politics.
Eastern Cape health chief Lawrence Boya has been shown the door after the province refused to renew his contract.
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/ 5 December 2008
Former Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Balindlela may be sued for damages after allegedly using her powers in office to deal with political foes.
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/ 3 November 2008
Six prominent Eastern Cape ANC leaders, including ousted premier Nosimo Balindlela, have quit the ANC.
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/ 25 September 2008
It is disappointing and hurts that African women are the subject of disparaging rage and hostility from fellow women, who, unwittingly, inflict pain.
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/ 4 September 2008
Can the Eastern Cape’s new Education Minister, Mahlubandile Qwase, ease the province’s chronic educational woes before next year’s election?
Axed Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Balindlela has told of her feelings of humiliation upon learning from the media of her recent sacking.
Mbulelo Sogoni replaced Nosimo Balindlela, who was forced to resign by the new ANC leadership for failing to improve service delivery in the province.
The first item on his diary will be to deal with the report of the Pillay commission, requested by Balindlela in 2005 to probe corruption.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool will resign with effect from Friday, African National Congress chairperson Baleka Mbete has announced.
The ANC will announce a successor to embattled Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela as soon as she returns from China, media reports say.
The imminent sacking of Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Eastern Cape counterpart Nosimo Balindlela has heightened tensions in ANC structures.
The ANC has proposed a number of possible candidates to replace Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela.
The ANC has certainly been nettled by media reports that it intends replacing its premiers in the Western and Eastern Cape.
The ANC’s national working committee is believed to have recommended the removal of Balindlela for her lack of leadership in the province.
The ANC retracted a statement on Tuesday that it would make an announcement on the reported axing of two premiers.
The African National Congress is expected to make an announcement on the reported axing of two premiers later on Tuesday, its spokesperson said.
The African National Congress in the Western Cape has confirmed that Premier Ebrahim Rasool will be asked to resign.
The African National Congress would not be drawn on Monday on whether it planned to replace the premiers of the Eastern and Western Cape.
Opposition parties reacted on Sunday to the apparent firing of the Eastern and Western Cape premiers by the African National Congress.
Media reports say the African National Congress has fired the premiers of the Western and Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela and Ebrahim Rasool.
Eastern Cape health minister Nomsa Jajula is in hot water after failing to appear on a radio show that cost the government almost R13 000 for the slot, the Dispatch Online reported on Tuesday. The week before, provincial social development minister Sam Kwelita also missed his appointment.
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/ 27 September 2007
African National Congress funder Sandi Majali — known for his role in the Oilgate scandal — is to sue the Sunday Times for defamation following its story implicating him in the disappearance of money meant for an Eastern Cape school feeding scheme.
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/ 23 September 2007
The controversial Sandi Majali — known for his central role in the Oilgate and Iraq oil-for-food scandals — has been named in a forensic audit into the disappearance of more than R100-million meant for starving children in the Eastern Cape, the Sunday Times reported.