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Stolen dockets, tender corruption, unaccountable leadership and criminals rob South Africans of their dreams of a safe future. Photo: File
ANC

ANC council candidate stabbed to death outside party meeting

The brutal murder of an Eastern Cape ANC member puts political killings in the province, and in the country, into sharp focus just before the local government elections

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
While members of social movements and other political organisations and parties have also been murdered, the majority of the more than 100 people killed in the post-apartheid bloodletting have been ANC members. (Gallo)
ANC YOUTH LEAGUE

Witnesses, cops on KZN hit lists

The majority of the more than 100 people killed in the province have been ANC members, but now witnesses, and even cops, appear to be on hit lists

  • Niren Tolsi
7 min read
Harry Gwala district mayor Mluleki Ndobe facing more investigations over the Sindiso Magaqa murder. (Mlungisi_Mbele)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Mayor may still be charged with murder

Hawks investigators appear to be preparing to once again charge Harry Gwala district mayor Mluleki Ndobe for his murder

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
An appeal against the Khosa judgment on police brutality seems imminent after Police Minister Bheki Cele tried to do a deal with the Khosa family through their lawyers — asking them to abandon a crucial part of the court order in exchange for an expedited appeal process. (David Harrison/M&G)
BHEKI CELE

Cele defends political killings probe

Police Minister Bheki Cele has defended the investigations into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial leader Mluleki ?Ndobe. (Image via Salga)
HARRY GWALA

Charges provisionally withdrawn against Ndobe

​Murder charges against Harry Gwala District mayor Mluleki Ndobe have been provisionally withdrawn, the Umzimkhulu Magistrates Court heard on Monday.

  • Kaveel Singh
1 min read
South Africa’s Jewish and Muslim communities have condemned the killing of Halima Hoosen-Preston and the knife assault on her family at their home in Durban, in what appears to be an Islamophobic attack. (Cornel van Heerden/Gallo)
ANCYL

Newcastle mayor arrested in connection with political killings

Ntuthuko Mahlaba is the second ANC mayor in KZN to be arrested in connection with the killing of their own comrades

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial leader Mluleki ?Ndobe. (Image via Salga)
ANC

Magaqa murder accused, three others appear in court

Mluleki Ndobe and three others appeared in court in connection with the murder of former ANCYL secretary general Sindiso Magaqa

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
The pressure brought to bear by the Hawks and whistle-blowers appears to be paying off (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
ANC YOUTH LEAGUE

Hawks bust group running ‘ghost’ municipal projects

The alleged scam was reported to the authority by KwaZulu-Natal’s Harry Gwala district municipality last year

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial congress
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

ANC’s Moses Mabhida regional conference postponed indefinitely

A follow-up meeting to address the branch concerns will be held on Thursday or Friday

  • Paddy Harper
1 min read
Former Zimbabwe finance minister Tendai Biti. (AFP)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Jessie and co bring relief to quarrelsome ANC branches

Court battles between the ANC leadership and disaffected branches claiming gatekeeping have been averted in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial congress
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial congress

They believe that allowing the conference to go ahead with the involvement of a large number of illegitimate delegates will deliver a flawed outcome

  • Paddy Harper
1 min read
The ANC’s Lungisani Mnguni was killed in Camperdown on Monday
ANC

Two more hits in KZN bloodbath

Pietermaritzburg has become a killing field for young ANC activists ahead of the party conference

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Reflections on power: Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke has raised legitimate concerns.
GLEBELANDS HOSTELS

Assassins target Moerane witnesses

Protection is vital after a tip-off that those testifying at the commission on killings in KwaZulu-Natal may also be killed

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read