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eThekwini metro mayor Cyril Xaba announced at the city’s 2024-25 summer season campaign on Wednesday that work on repairing wastewater treatment plants was nearing completion.
ACTIONSA

Political stalemate as ANC and DA dispute delays eThekwini Metro mayoral election

ANC mayoral candidate Cyril Xaba has already replaced Mxolisi Kaunda as a councillor

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
ADEC

eThekwini to investigate alleged DA corruption and cover-up

The City Integrity and Investigation Unit will look into a claim of bribes in the R48 million Chatsworth water project

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
ADEC

eThekwini DA corruption claims: Motion for forensic audit to be tabled

Political parties want the city to investigate the involvement of the Democratic Alliance’s Mergan Chetty in allegedly covering up corruption claims

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Mzimuni Ngiba
ANC

Jailed ANC councillor accused of killing predecessor is finally fired

Mzimuni Ngiba, however, was axed for missing council meetings, not because of the murder charge he is facing

  • Khethukuthula Xulu
2 min read
ANC

Another ANC leader shot dead in Durban

Mfundo Mokoena had backed eThekwini speaker Thabani Nyawose’s bid to become regional chairperson last weekend

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
In the running: eThekwini regional chairperson Zandile Gumede is likely to contest a position in her province’s top five. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
ANC

Gumede sets her sights on ANC KwaZulu-Natal treasurer job

With the eThekwini in the rearview mirror, the former mayor is said to be gunning for a position in the provincial top five

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Zandile Gumede wins race to become ANC eThekwini chairperson

But the corruption accused former mayor will not be allowed to take office because of the ANC’s step-aside rule

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Zandile Gumede, the corruption-accused former mayor was not allowed to attend the elective meeting. (Gallo Images/The Times/Jackie Clausen)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Zandile Gumede nominated in absentia as ANC eThekwini regional chairperson

But the corruption-accused former mayor was not allowed to attend the elective meeting

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
While the ANC leadership is hopeful of reaching an agreement on credentials when the conference resumes on Sunday morning, some delegates fear a repeat of the collapse of the conference on several occasions by supporters of former mayor Zandile Gumede in 2015.. (Rajesh Jantilal)
ACE MAGASHULE

ANC’s key eThekwini conference deadlocks over which delegates can vote

ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Sihle Zikalala lays down the law, warning factions to stop destroying the party.

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Zandile Gumede to stand as ANC chairperson in eThekwini

But the step-aside rules mean the former mayor may not be able to take up office if she wins

  • Paddy Harper
8 min read
Thabani Nyawose, the speaker of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality, is contesting the ANC regional chairperson position for the first time. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANC

Zandile Gumede vs Thabani Nyawose: Who will lead eThekwini?

The ANC eThekwini chairperson is running against the speaker of eThekwini metropolitan municipality

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Former eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Step-aside rule could ruin Zandile Gumede’s plans for top ANC job

A victory for Durban’s former mayor does not necessarily mean she’ll be able to take office

  • Paddy Harper
8 min read
In an interview with the Mail & Guardian, Thabani Nyawose said he was “very uncomfortable [with] the manner in which people in the media always refer to me as a Ramaphosa ally”. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)
ANC

eThekwini speaker Nyawose wants to be seen as a leader in his own right, not a Ramaphosa man

Nyawose believes the ANC eThekwini region can lead the party’s renewal process at the national elective conference in December

  • Paddy Harper
9 min read
Despite a high court ruling removing unlawfully-elected ANC mayor Dada Morero, the ANC still managed to score itself five new Johannesburg council chairperson positions on Thursday as it cemented its new-found strength in the city. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

More ANC murders ahead of party’s eThekwini regional conference

Umlazi branch secretary Thulani Shusha was gunned down on his way home from an ANC meeting on Saturday

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
To 2024? ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

Conference battles and alliances will determine Ramaphosa’s ANC future

A busy year looms for Ramaphosa and allies as he fights to lead the ANC and the country come 2024.

  • Paddy Harper
  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read