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Carl Niehaus, the spokesperson for the disbanded Umkhonto we Sizwe MIlitary Veterans Association (MKMVA), has been expelled by the ANC. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Carl Niehaus gets the chop as ANC cracks down ahead of conference

Disgruntled would-be national executive committee members are going to court over their failure to make the top 200 names

3 December 2021: A sign points toward the eKhenana settlement in Durban. Picture: Rogan Ward

Going back to the future of KwaZulu-Natal politics

The past is helpful in understanding the predatory and violent nature of political factionalism in the province. But it doesn’t answer the question of how to fix it.

Controversial Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA​) spokesperson, Carl Niehaus has been suspended.
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ANC suspends MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus

The ANC has resolved that Niehaus’s conduct at Nkandla was in contravention of rule 25.17 of the party’s constitution and warrants disciplinary action

Creating instability? Former state security minister David Mahlobo, suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and former president Jacob Zuma are all part of the so-called radical economic transformation faction in the party. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

How Zuma’s 15-month sentence will affect this weekend’s NEC meeting

This Constitutional Court ruling comes at an inconvenient time for the Ramaphosa faction. Magashule’s strength is waning, but Zuma still wields significant support

The president of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), Kebby Maphatsoe,

MKMVA threatens court action against top six

The structure will consider taking the ANC to court if it does not agree to its demands on disbandment, says MKMVA president Kebby Maphatsoe

Unequal justice: Carl Niehaus of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association warned of ‘civil unrest’ if Jacob Zuma is arrested. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

MK committee to look into Gupta influence in military veteran’s association

Party insiders say a report on the Guptas’ association with leaders of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association will help rid the structure of Jacob Zuma’s most loyal…

The ANC’s top six at their last policy conference. Later today, the top six candidates for the upcoming conference will be revealed.

MKMVA accuse top six of being factional in collapsed meeting

A defiant MKMVA has vowed it is business as usual, after a meeting with the top six ended with the military veterans being kicked out of the virtual platform

The president of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), Kebby Maphatsoe,

Maphatsoe seeks deliberation on MKMVA disbandment

Maphatsoe said the decision was surprising, given that it deviated from the MK unitary process the MKMVA and the MK Council had been working on

Zondo to ask the Constitutional Court to send Zuma to jail for flouting summons

The deputy chief justice says he has to act because Zuma’s defiance risks inciting lawlessness

The supreme court of appeal is yet to rule on the appeal to the high court finding that his release on medical parole was unlawful and he should return to prison. (Michele Spatari/POOL/AFP)

Zuma snubs Zondo commission

His lawyer says the summons was not in line with the Constitutional Court order

Embattled National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.(Photo by Gallo Images / Frennie Shivambu)

Minister had ‘no interest’ in military veterans’ woes or wisdom

Former members of the defence department’s advisory council tell oversight committee their recommendations went ignored and that an audit should be conducted

ANC secretary general, Fikile Mbalula. File photo by Madelene Cronje/M&G

Mbalula’s war with military vets belies the Prasa disaster

The transport minister uses humour, which his targets don’t find funny, to survive in tough times or to divert attention from a problem.

Why the ANC clean-up is dragging on

The outcome of the ANC’s NEC meeting was clear: ask party members who are facing or who have been convicted of criminal charges to step aside. But as Paddy Harper and Lester…

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced an “extraordinary coronavirus budget” on Tuesday. (Reuters)

Veterans get a room to call ‘home’

Military Veterans’ Association steps in after the M&G highlights the plight of freedom fighters

There are initiatives that can be taken to help millennials overcome challenges. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Homeless freedom fighters battle  for a place called ‘home’

Many Umkhonto weSizwe veterans find themselves living on the streets, abandoned by the country that they helped to free​

The MKMVA condemned the antics of DA leader

Zuma unlikely to get a fair trial in SA – MKMVA

The MKMVA strongly asserts former president Jacob Zuma’s inalienable right to be presumed innocent until, and if, proven guilty.

Des van Rooyen
9/12/2015– 13/12/2015

Des van Rooyen admits asking Guptas’ help for MKMVA

This is not the first Gupta-related finding by a Public Protector against Van Rooyen.

South Africa’s captain AB de Villiers celebrates reaching his century during the Cricket World Cup match against the West Indies.

This soldier will fight for JZ till the end

Kebby Maphatsoe, wary of Western ‘agents’, derides Ramaphosa as the white people’s darling

Shrien Dewani.

MK rebels want to expel Maphatsoe

The president of the vets is accused of illegally using state funds and fake members to get himself elected

MKMVA plans to lodge a complaint against “factional” Cyril Ramaphosa

Maphatsoe accused Ramaphosa of being factional and of lying when he claimed to have attended the conference to forge unity within the MK.