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Dr Bongani Mncwango has joined the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Photo: Supplied

Former MK leader Mncwango joins IFP as party eyes key municipal takeovers

The IFP gains a seasoned administrator as Dr Bongani Mncwango joins the party, signaling growth ambitions and strengthened leadership before the local elections

Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza (LinkedIn)

EXCLUSIVE: Ekurhuleni’s Xhakaza set to reshuffle mayoral committee amid ANC, EFF tension

The Economic Freedom Fighters will be accommodated in the reshuffled committee, sources said

‘Still a daughter of Johannesburg’: The Democratic Alliance’s federal chair, Helen Zille, now wants to fix Johannesburg if she’s elected mayor. Photo: DA/Helen Zille

Zille goes all in for Joburg top job

The Democratic Alliance federal chair declined to commit to a time frame within which she planned to fix the city’s problems if elected mayor

Chain reaction: Helen Zille, chairperson of the Democratic Alliance’s Federal Council, has been nominated as the party’s candidate for mayor of Johannesburg. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Zille tops DA internal polling for Johannesburg mayor candidate

The party’s federal chairperson is the internal favourite for the post but its Gauteng leader denied the existence of divisive factions

Boom time: The author investigates the operations of uMkhonto weSizwe in his book, and this extract tells the story of the Sasol bombings

Sasol bombs: ‘It was like an earthquake’

This is an edited extract from Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim, which tells the story of the MK’s Special Operations Unit

Grave concern: President Cyril Ramaphosa (above) regards allegations against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu as requiring ‘the highest-priority attention’.

Mchunu: Murmers of a cabinet reshuffle

Parties have called for the president to take action regarding allegations against the police minister

Former president Jacob Zuma and now leader of uMkhonto weSizwe party. File photo

Beware the strongman: People are being walked into the dark

When strongmen with nationalistic and populist tendencies begin to dominate politics, we should be worried.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba. (File photo)

Who is our opposition anyway?

South Africans have, in recent years, looked beyond the ANC in hope of finding new voices capable of holding the line on spending and corruption. Instead, what they have received…

The MK party has removed Mzwanele Manyi as its chief whip in the National Assembly, less than a year after his appointment.

‘Incompetent’ Mzwanele Manyi faces MK party revolt

Some members believe the chief whip is out of his depth, which has left the EFF’s Julius Malema dominating as the voice of the opposition

Economic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief, Julius Malema. Photo: @EFFSouthAfrica

Political parties say postponing the budget tabling renders parliament useless

The parties accused parliament of failing its constitutional duties after the delay, caused by divisions in the unity government over a proposed VAT hike

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. (File photo)

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi resigns from EFF

His departure follows verbal attacks from Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema

Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala. (Leon Sadiki)

Politics will continue to play out in courts in 2025

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

Ndlozi has been attacked by some party members for not defending the EFF when the Jacob Zuma-led MK party was poaching its members.(Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndlozi resigns from parliament

His resignation follows mounting speculation about his future in the party, particularly after he skipped its third elective conference in December

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images

Ferrari vs Conquest: Only Mbalula, not provincial leaders, can speak publicly on provincial structure disbandment

The secretary general said the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal cannot keep up with the uMkhonto weSizwe party

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has asked the electoral court to hear oral evidence in its application to have the results of last year’s national and provincial elections set aside.
(Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)

IT expert faces dismissal, death threats over role in MK party election challenge

Vusi Mhlongo has been charged with bringing the Moses Kotane Research Institute into disrepute