The Economic Freedom Fighters will rebuild its structures and its morale ahead of the 2026 local government elections
Herman Mashaba has created a deputy position for Forum 4 Service Delivery founder Mbahare Johannes Kekana as part of the agreement
Leaders in the ANC believe that figures like Ndlozi could inject the necessary energy and expertise to drive renewal and build confidence in the party
MPs want the monarch to ‘hold back’ in attempts to suspend board members and its executives
Some Khayelitsha residents say the ANC has learned from its past mistakes and is ready to make amends
The president emphasised the party’s urgent need for renewal, calling it a choice between survival or demise
He also said Jacob Zuma was a ‘counter-revolutionary’ who ‘sold his people for nothing’
The ANC and DA trade jabs as the former prepares to deliver its annual address, with coalition politics under scrutiny
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Provincial convener Willies Mchunu says the party needs to start building its structures from scratch
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The party hopes to win back voters in the Western Cape, where its January 8 commemoration is being held
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His resignation follows mounting speculation about his future in the party, particularly after he skipped its third elective conference in December
The former president’s lawyers say Tony Yengeni is being “persecuted” for representing Zuma at his disciplinary hearing
The party is expected to discuss the matter at its upcoming national executive committee meeting, set for next week
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for its alliance partners, the SACP and labour federation Cosatu, to unite to return the ANC to power
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The ANC secretary general described Tony Yengeni as a ‘political Casanova’ and ‘very ill-disciplined’
Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso said the members of the Ingonyama Trust Board would therefore remain in office ‘until the minister decides otherwise’
The monarch has been under pressure from KwaZulu-Natal politicians to ditch Buthelezi and has also been at odds with the Ingonyama Trust Board
The SACP, EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe party are all looking at potential new alliances
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Pre-existing policy tensions between the ANC and the Democratic Alliance have been the biggest stressors on Ramaphosa’s government
Negotiating a broad coalition to hold the political centre was perhaps the president’s finest political hour
The EFF president said the party would be ready to go into a coalition government with the ANC nationally once it dumped the Democratic Alliance
The former president said political power was ‘only four years’ away
The South African Communist Party says it will not backtrack on its decision to contest alone in the 2026 local government elections
The EFF leader said Ndlozi was not at the conference and that it was not in the party’s interests to entertain such “nonsense”
It can be achieved through the regulations the education minister must draft
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Deputy President Paul Mashatile said the president would soon reveal the fate of the contentious law after months of deliberations and consultations
ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile said the party’s national executive committee respected the SACP’s decision to campaign alone for 2026 local government elections
The party’s Gauteng chairperson, Nkululeko Dunga, ‘has no national ambitions’
Jacob Zuma’s party aims for a branch in every ward by the middle of 2025
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Former secretary general Godrich Gardee appears set to be elected as deputy president
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The party is also set to discuss whether to ‘donate’ its votes to the ANC after the poll
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