Senzo Mchunu

Zikalala’s clean-up should scour director general first

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2019-05-31 00:00:00

KwaZulu-Natal’s new premier, Sihle Zikalala, will have to start his promised clean up of the provincial government at the very top and fire its...

Corruption allegations don’t count, says Magashule

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2019-03-15 00:00:00

"Treat us like South Africans" was the response from those asked to step aside because of allegations of corruption and poor ethical judgement...

ANC parly list is not ‘cast in stone’

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2019-01-04 00:00:00

ANC leaders who were previously sacked from Cabinet positions but have made it back on to the party’s parliamentary list — after nominations by their provinces — will still be vetted for “integrity” by the party’s national executive committee (NEC)....

Ramatlhodi: ANC NEC gripped by a ‘season of madness’ during Zuma-era

NationalSarah Smit | 2018-11-28 14:44:00

Former president Jacob Zuma’s relationship with the controversial Gupta family fractured the ANC national executive committee (NEC), former...

Ghostbuster cleans up ANC branches

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2018-11-16 00:00:00

The ANC’s introduction of identity book scanners to verify membership seems to be paying off: it is rooting out ghost members and dummy branches...

Ramaphosa’s Disprin plan is working

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2018-11-16 00:00:00

When disgraced Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba resigned on Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s strategy of allowing the courts and institutions of oversight to dictate the pace of his cleanout of government paid off....

‘Bring Zuma back in from the cold’

PoliticsPaddy Harper | 2018-07-27 00:00:00

The ANC’s new KwaZulu-Natal leadership wants former presidents Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki to campaign for the governing party ahead of next...

Mpembeni lives in fear of assassins

NationalPaddy Harper | 2018-07-20 00:00:00

Two activists have been murdered at Mpembeni near Richards Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast in a spate of apparent assassinations, which...

Trump sounds mad but his trade war makes sense, says Mchunu

PoliticsDineo Bendile | 2018-07-06 00:00:00

An increase in customs tariffs might be what South Africa needs to ward off an influx of foreign imports that are threatening the survival of local...