Secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has warned senior ANC veterans, including Thabo Mbeki, against publicly criticising the party, while defending the ANC’s record during Jacob Zuma’s presidency and asserting his authority at Luthuli House
In its new report, Freedom Under Law says the caseload of the apex court has tripled, leading to delayed judgments that negatively affect public confidence in the judiciary
Our private and political lives are always punctuated by upheavals and storms. These moments signal the direction we should take. The unfolding political and economic crisis in South Africa presents a rich opportunity to chart a revolutionary path that could alter the future. We dare not miss this opening for a moral resetting of our […]
Ramaphosa’s decision to pursue a judicial review and the Constitutional Court’s call for Parliament to start an impeachment inquiry, will create tensions in the GNU
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not resign despite a Constitutional Court ruling that reopened the door to a parliamentary impeachment inquiry over the Phala Phala scandal
The party says parliament must immediately establish an impeachment committee to consider the panel’s findings on President Cyril Ramaphosa
South Africa cannot afford to have a president who is occupying office while being clouded by an impeachment process, the EFF leader says
The former public protector said President Cyril Ramaphosa sanctioned the police’s illegal conduct during their investigation into the Phala Phala theft
The political parties are calling for judges to undergo lifestyle audits, citing accountability concerns, judicial overreach and the delayed Phala Phala judgment
Even the court’s own critics and annual reports acknowledge that prolonged delays erode public confidence, yet this matter now stands at more than four times the prescribed period
From parliament’s rejection of the Phala Phala report to the president’s signing of the NHI Act, the courts are again due to pronounce on consequential political acts
Unlike his predecessor, President Cyril Ramaphosa has no interest in compound interest
Judges ask the president’s and the National Assembly’s counsel if parliament threw the baby out with the bathwater
The stakes are high in the Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF’s) bid to compel the National Assembly to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa on charges flowing from the theft of foreign currency concealed at his farm.
The president’s lawyers counter that the Economic Freedom Fighter’s Phala Phala case is rooted in politics, not law
The National Prosecuting Authority says Ramaphosa is off the Phala Phala hook
The coalitions that will soon take place will determine the course of South Africa for years to come
Cyril Ramaphosa’s counsel has countered that the case is stillborn because the National Assembly had a right to reject the findings of the Ngcobo panel
The ATM’s argument that she skirted this and other issues in the scandal had no merit, Gcaleka’s office has argued in court papers
The president maintains the opposition party was trying to fashion evidence that he flouted the executive ethics code by twisting his public statements on the subject
A delegation from the MK party allegedly met Ngrayi Ngwenya on Sunday to convince him to join the party
Insiders say that the party’s campaign to retain KwaZulu-Natal would rely on Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Zweli Mkhize
The president remains vulnerable to the unanswered questions that continue to stalk him
Fikile Mbalula and the Luthuli House crew may find themselves working from home in the next elections
The ANC is unlikely to act against the two leaders despite calls by senior members for them to be disciplined
The South African Reserve Bank heard conflicting versions of the transactions – but accepted that of the president
The ANC embarked on a programme of renewal in 2017 after it emerged that it had been complicit in state capture.
Sixty percent of votes in the National Assembly is needed to approve the appointment of Kholeka Gcaleka.
The ATM leader says the party has been growing since playing a pivotal role in holding President Cyril Ramaphosa accountable over the Phala Phala scandal
The report found that South Africa’s overall trend over recent years was one of ‘worsening instability’ and economic crisis
But for now, the classified report leaves relations between the United States and South Africa in a static, safe place
The central bank’s conclusion that the president did not have an obligation to report forex paid to, and stolen from, his Phala Phala farm was irrational, it argues in court papers