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ANCYL President Collen Malatji
ANC

Youth league president Malatji warns SACP against breaking alliance with ANC

He also said Jacob Zuma was a ‘counter-revolutionary’ who ‘sold his people for nothing’

  • Lunga Mzangwe
3 min read
Zuma’s desire to remain an ANC member can’t be going down all that well in the MK party, especially in the Kingdom, its stronghold and the source of its national political presence. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
ACE MAGASHULE

Fish swim, birds fly, Zuma litigates

Is Zuma trying to rain on Cyril’s January 8 parade, or is uBaba feeling politically homesick?

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
IFP cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi
ANC

Zulu king ‘being lobbied’ to fire traditional prime minister Thulasize Buthelezi

IFP and ANC leaders and members of the Zulu royal family are among those who want Buthelezi removed from the role

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal
BARNABAS XULU

MK party claims computer expert is the subject of another ‘politically motivated attack’

The party says the alleged harassment of Vusi Mhlongo caused delays in it filing court papers in its electoral case

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
The EFF has instructed its lawyers to attach Zuma’s home in Nxamalala village in northern KwaZulu-Natal to recover money owed to the Red Berets (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty) Images)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

It’s war as Zuma, MK party try to ‘strategically’ strip Malema and EFF of autonomy

ATM president Vuyo Zungula believes the so-called progressive caucus will survive the tensions between the two parties

  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Mandisa Makgakga
10 min read
The ANC and SACP have agreed to continuous consultation and to strengthening the broader ANC-led alliance
ALEX MASHILO

ANC, SACP plan talks to rebuild alliance ahead of January lekgotla

The parties have agreed to continuous consultation and to strengthening the broader ANC-led alliance

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Infighting has plagued the NFP since the death of founder Zanele Magwaza-Msibi in 2021. (Photo by Gallo Images /Sowetan / Mohau Mofokeng)
ANC

National Freedom Party secretary general Teddy Thwala fired — again

Thwala was dismissed at a hearing held in his absence

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has asked the electoral court to hear oral evidence in its application to have the results of last year’s national and provincial elections set aside. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
BARNABAS XULU

IT expert faces dismissal, death threats over role in MK party election challenge

Vusi Mhlongo has been charged with bringing the Moses Kotane Research Institute into disrepute

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
KZN Premier Thami Ntuli
ANC

KwaZulu-Natal unity government politically stable, but lean financial times lie ahead

Premier Thami Ntuli says the province will have to cut spending by R150 million a year to get out of the red

  • Paddy Harper
7 min read
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. (Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images)
ANC

Mbalula: No decision yet on dissolving ANC KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provincial executive committees 

The party will take a decision at the end of October, its secretary general said

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Storm dies down: Former judge John Hlophe, who was impeached in February last year, has resigned from the Judicial Service Commission. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Getty Images
JOHN HLOPHE

MK party deputy president John Hlophe quits as JSC commissioner

The decision was in protest at the legitimacy of process, the party said as the Judicial Service Commission proceeded with interviews in Hlophe’s absence This content is…

  • Emsie Ferreira
1 min read
National Freedom Party president Ivan Barnes. (National Freedom Party/ Facebook)
ANC

KwaZulu-Natal unity government under threat from renewed infighting in National Freedom Party

The party’s single seat holds the balance of power in the province This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail & Guardian is…

  • Paddy Harper
1 min read
Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)
ANC

ANC’s Bheki Mtolo apologises about Nehawu slur, alliance partners paper over GNU cracks

Fikile Mbalula said differing views about unity government members were fine, but ‘personal attacks and labelling’ were not

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
The ANC’s alliance partners in KwaZulu-Natal have been publicly critical of its provincial executive committee — led by chairperson Siboniso Duma and secretary Bheki Mtolo — over its failure to meet them for more than a year and to consult them regarding key decisions. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
ANC

ANC’s alliance partners call for intervention as relations in KwaZulu-Natal sour

The South African Communist Party says the alliance secretariat has met once or twice in two years

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
Not in the pipeline: Many people living in Limpopo’s Vhembe district have no council-supplied water. Photo: Lunga Mzangwe
ANC

Life in VBS land: residents of the Vhembe District face long daily walks – and risk attacks by crocodiles –  in their struggle for water

Residents blame councils, not the national and provincial government, for their plight

  • Lunga Mzangwe
9 min read