The former health minister and a senior ANC member want the president to account for the robbery at Phala Phala Wildlife farm in Limpopo
Provincial leaders have asked ANC top brass to caution national working committee (and national executive committee members against meddling
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While Cyril Ramaphosa’s detractors revel in his possible demise in the wake of the case opened against him, those in Mkhize’s corner see a no-win for the ANC as a whole
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Although some believe this is a high stakes game between Zweli Mkhize and the Cyril Ramaphosa faction, many overlook treasurer general Paul Mashatile, who may be the biggest winner as the national leader who fought for Babalo Madikizela to be the provincial chair
As the former health minister attempts to consolidate support in KZN, the amendment will likely gain him favour in the coalition of wounded party members
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The provincial chair contender Babalo Madikizela insists that talks of his support for Zweli Mkhize as ANC president are nothing but rumour
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The three, along with co-accused Ace Magashule, recently applied to the high court to have charges stemming from the scandal set aside but were unsuccessful
The unit will attempt to recover millions in alleged inducements that flowed to his wife, son and daughter-in-law for his approval of the Digital Vibes contracts
A survey of March’s top online news articles suggests that municipalities, a new police commissioner and the ANC’s December elective conference were key issues facing the president
ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Sihle Zikalala lays down the law, warning factions to stop destroying the party.
The presidential bobbing and weaving over ANC campaign funding is about to come to an end
There will be losers and winners as the provinces prepare for their elective conferences and slates are sealed. Find out who is trading.
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The tourism minister will have to jockey with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Zweli Mkhize for a presidential nomination.
The disgraced former health minister is spotted on posters punting him as the next leader after his R150m corruption scandal
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Repeated claims that the country was “following the science” really meant it was following a particular science followed by some Western scientists
No clear winners after weeks of jostling for 160 hung municipalities
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It’s a long shot at political redemption for the former health minister and, more pressingly, a bid to avert criminal charges
Former health minister Zweli Mkhize seeks relief to declare the SIU’s conduct against him ‘unlawful and unconstitutional
Desperate to claw back the public’s trust, the president missteped and betrayed his own weak understanding of ethics and the meaning of leadership
The NPA has begun proceedings based on some of the testimony given at the state capture inquiry
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The former health minister’s ‘close associates’ laundered cash from the R150-million Digital Vibes ‘heist’ in boxes
Six of the nine implicated officials suspended for their part in the controversial Digital Vibes saga are from the health department
The president said the former health minister had steered the country around the HIV crisis and now the Covid-19 pandemic, and now a Special Investigating Unit report has implicated Mkhize of wrongdoing regarding the Digital Vibes contract
The Special Investigating Unit says Mkhize’s denials that his family benefited were ‘untrue’
After initially defending Sandile Buthelezi’s personal leave, the health department has announced that he has been placed on precautionary suspension
Most of the 1 600 participants in the study believe the government is doing an inefficient job in combating corruption, according to Afrobarometer
The ANC’s inability to meet deadlines could have given us more municipal managers with bodybuilding certificates
The SIU told parliament the health department was so desperate to give Digital Vibes a communications contract that it flouted government procurement policies and allowed a 104% price inflation
ANC economic policy head Enoch Godongwana takes over the finance portfolio
Mkhize’s resignation and the top six meeting are the clearest indicators yet that Ramaphosa is intending to make a much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle
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Despite agreement that it would be politically ‘unwise’ for the president to remove the health minister before the Special Tribunal makes its decision on the application by the Special Investigating Unit, he may have just done so
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Not much has changed. Zuma’s still wearing his orange onesie. And Mkhizi is still free. Perhaps that will change by next week