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Malevolent: Former ANC president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party has, in the past two months, thrice gone to the electoral court, and plans to make a fourth visit. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images
ELECTIONS RESULTS

Only the MK party intent on challenging the election outcome

Other parties flagged irregularities but want to distance themselves from MK and Jacob Zuma’s efforts to discredit the elections

  • Emsie Ferreira
6 min read
The double standards on Palestine and Ukraine have left white liberalism morally bankrupt in the eyes of many black South Africans, but the emerging alternatives to the ANC are often appalling. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
2024 ELECTIONS

White liberalism and the appalling alternatives to the ANC

South Africa’s political narrative is mired in a swamp of inadequacy and hypocrisy

  • Imraan Buccus
5 min read
Former South African and ANC president, Jacob Zuma. (MKP/X)
ANC COURT CASE MK PARTY

We own and control eThekwini, says MK party, but denies inciting strike

The Jacob Zuma-backed party will be facing off in the electoral court on Tuesday against the ANC, which is trying to have it deregistered This content is restricted to registered…

  • Des Erasmus
1 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
Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu
GOBODO FORENSIC AND INVESTIGATIVE ACCOUNTING

Court hurdles ahead for Senzo Mchunu’s super water entity

Former board members wanting to be reinstated for a second time are challenging the water and sanitation minister

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Former members of the Umgeni Water Amanzi board have gone to court to challenge their removal by Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu
GUGILE NKWINTI

Umgeni Water board challenges its disbandment

The former members have said that an interim board has been appointed illegally and without being vetted

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
File photo by Rajesh Jantilal/AFP
ACTIONSA

KwaZulu-Natal opposition parties test ANC-led coalitions

eThekwini metro and KwaDukuza municipality are likely to face similar challenges as the Msunduzi municipality

  • Paddy Harper
7 min read
Dissatisfied: Visvin Reddy, of the African Democratic Change party (above), is planning a no-confidence vote against the ANC in eThekwini under the leadership of Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda
AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CHANGE

No confidence vote looms as eThekwini coalition crumbles

Opposition parties plan to strip the ANC of its control of the city

  • Paddy Harper
7 min read
LINDIWE SISULU

High court reinstates Umgeni Water board

The high court has ruled that the dissolution of the water entity’s board by Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was unfair and unprocedural

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Umgeni water board overhaul imminent

Water and housing entities are likely to see political appointments reversed after the cabinet reshuffle

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
‘Irrational’: Former Umgeni Water board member Visvin Reddy and others have taken the the board’s disbandment to the high court
ANC

Court to hear challenge to dissolution of Umgeni Water board

The water and sanitation minister allegedly acted beyond her powers, former board members argue

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
GUGILE NWINTI

Phineas Legodi resigns from water board after latest court defeat

Lepelle Northern Water chief executive Phineas Legodi throws in the towel after losing fourth interdict application

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Jo’burg, with its veneer of cosmopolitan bling, is a heartless place, writes Paddy Harper — although the jazz is great — but it’s unable to produce Durban-standard curry
ANC

Battling Jozi’s mean streets

At last the elections will bring relief, in the form of Hlaudi and other nutty contenders

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Norman Foster’s Ombrière turns life upside down.
ANC

Open letter to Visvin Reddy: We are South Africans, cuzzie!

Iqbal Musa writes an open letter to Visvin Reddy, whose infamous remark about anti-ANC Indians returning to India landed him in hot water.

  • Iqbal Musa
2 min read