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Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi allegedly demanded money from the employees and threatened to fire them if they did not pay it into her bank account or hand over cash.

MK chief whip granted R30 000 in fraud case

In October, when the ‘M&G’ first released the story that Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi had been allegedly soliciting 50% to 60% of staff salaries, claiming it was meant for Zuma, she…

Floyd Shivambu welcomes  Papa Penny to the Afrika Mayibuye Movement (Mayibuye). (Floyd Shivambu/X)

Penny Penny joins Mayibuye as party gears up for local polls

The Xitsonga musician resigned as an uMkhonto weSizwe Party MP on Friday, citing internal conflict before joining Afrika Mayibuye Movement

The elections announced for 4 November will have a consequential impact on our body politic as municipal polls often project how national elections will turn out.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Remember, Remember the 4th of November

As unpredictable as elections may be, the best outcome for voters in the 4 November local government elections would be an electoral system which incentivises and rewards…

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

Missing: Members of the Jacob Zuma’s MKP are fighting over alleged looting of funds in the party. Photo: GCIS

Zuma, MKP and the ‘looted’ R70m

The MPs have written to Zuma and Yengeni to demand a forensic investigation of the missing millions

Mmabatho Mokoena, has been found guilty of extorting 60% of the salaries of at least three of the party’s parliamentary employees and according to a source, she claimed it was for party leader Jacob Zuma.
 (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

EXCLUSIVE: MK Party NCOP chief whip accused of taking 60% of staff members monthly salaries

According to a source, she claimed that it was for party president Jacob Zuma

Afrika Mayibuye Movement leader Floyd Shivambu Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Floyd Shivambu fires deputy Nolubabalo Mcinga over unsanctioned meeting with Jacob Zuma

Shivambu’s Afrika Mayibuye Movement also accused Mcinga of spreading lies about the party’s leadership

Afrika Mayibuye Movement leader Floyd Shivambu Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Floyd Shivambu announces Afrika Mayibuye Movement party, with himself as president

This follows months of consultations with communities on whether there was a need to form another political party in South Africa

Returning: Floyd Shivambu formed Mayibuye iAfrika after being fired as secretary general of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe party.

Floyd Shivambu’s Mayibuye iAfrika gains momentum as MK leaders defect

The new political movement is aiming to challenge established parties in KwaZulu-Natal in next year’s local government elections

Former Johannesburg council speaker  Nobuhle Mthembu. (@cllr_mthembu/X)

Nobuhle Mthembu alleges Joburg ActionSA councillors only staying in party for salaries

The former speaker suggested there were no differences in how the party she has left and Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe were being run

MK party leader Jacob Zuma (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Zuma: Some MK party members are lucky I have not fired them

The party alleged that fired secretary general Floyd Shivambu, who has now been expelled from MK, had left with a R28 million debt

Afrika Mayibuye Movement leader Floyd Shivambu Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Shivambu’s predatory politics

Floyd Shivambu’s new political project masks its predatory character in the language of liberation

Afrika Mayibuye Movement leader Floyd Shivambu Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Shivambu: I was fired as MK secretary-general over false plot against Zuma

Shivambu closed the door on returning to the EFF, calling his former party a ‘cult’

MK party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela. (@NhlamuloNdhlela/X)

MK party’s ‘December 16’ faction pushing for spokesperson Ndhlela to be secretary general

The faction is opposed to those who joined from other parties, such as Floyd Shivambu, assuming strategic leadership positions in uMkhonto weSizwe party

ANCYL President Collen Malatji

Collen Malatji: ANC hates small boy Floyd Shivambu; no one cares about him — and Zuma realised it

The ANC Youth League president said he would rather EFF leader Julius Malema returned to the ANC than Shivambu, who he dismissed as having no support base