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

ANC: Zuma's Nkandla scandal cost us votes in 2016 but Phala Phala won't

The ANC in Johannesburg attributes its 2016 local government election loss to Jacob Zuma's Nkandla scandal. However, the party believes President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
3 min read
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
SOUTH AFRICA

SAPS at war with itself a year after Mkhwanazi's explosive 6 July briefing

As 6 July marks the first anniversary of KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s media briefing alleging criminal infiltration of South Africa’s justice…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
4 min read
The Economic Freedom Fighters’ top six leaders are concerned about rumblings in the ranks of its central command team regarding the party’s leaders, Julius Malema (C) and Floyd Shivambu (L) and their association with the looted VBS Mutual Bank. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANC

EFF to hold crisis meeting over VBS fallout

The party is leaving the talking up to its former chair and legal adviser, Dali Mpofu

  • Mandisa Makgakga
  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Khaya Koko
8 min read