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ANC KZN chairman Siboniso Duma.(Photo by Gerhard Duraan/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANC ETHEKWINI

ANC intensifies renewal drive as it fights to win back KwaZulu-Natal

The party has vowed to regain the support it lost to former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party in the May election

  • Clive Ndou
2 min read
ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial congress
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC could lose five KwaZulu-Natal municipalities

The party is in danger of losing five KwaZulu-Natal municipalities over a registration flop, but counts the absence of political murders as a win

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
The provincial list committee believed the inclusion of the councillors-elect on the list at a time when they were out on bail and still attending court, “could bring the organisation into disrepute”. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

ANC branches protest as corruption charged councillors culled from elections list

Fielding councillors charged with corruption, along with Zandile Gumede, would bring the party into disrepute.

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Zulu monarch, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini (C). (Photo by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/ Sandile Ndlovu)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

ANC pressures Zulu king-in-waiting to deal with subjects flocking to Nkandla

ANC leaders’ negotiations with Zuma fall flat causing party leaders to call on presumptive Zulu monarch to take action

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
The governing party was defeated at full council when its allies voted against it to stop the appointment of Maxwell Mbili. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP)
ACE MAGASHULE

ANC eThekwini branches want Magashule reinstated immediately

ANC branches in Durban want all accused of corruption, and not just the criminally charged, to step aside

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Fanbase: Backers of Supra Mahumapelo (centre) celebrate after a court ruling that the decision to disband the ANC’s North West PEC was unlawful. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Beeld
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

ANC’s North West troika clean-up flops

ANC regions in the province have ordered their mayors, chief whips and speakers to stay in office

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. (Wikus De Wet/AFP)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Zandile Gumede sworn in as ANC MPL in KwaZulu-Natal

The governing party sends corruption-accused former mayor Zandile Gumede to the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature to ‘stabilise the municipality’

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Awaiting punters: Although there was some narrowing of the gap between men and women between April and June, women have still experienced greater job losses during the pandemic. The gender pay gap among the poor also widened during this period. (Michele Spatari/AFP)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Lockdown, day 105: When the chips are really down

Coronavirus statistics are now people we know. The pandemic affects us all and it’s hard to see light at the end of the tunnel

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Zandile Gumede was originally suspended by the ANC in the province over her arrest on corruption charges. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Gumede gone, for real this time, ANC confirms

Luthuli House confirms removal of controversial Durban mayor

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
The ANC recalled eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede (centre) because of fraud accusations, but she has since withdrawn her resignation. (Gallo Images/The Times/Jackie Clausen)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Zandile Gumede about-turn further undermines ANC

Regional party conferences in KwaZulu-Natal will have repercussions for the ANC and its stability under Cyril Ramaphosa

  • Niren Tolsi
8 min read
Heavy duty: There was no sign of the metro police’s Casspirs or Zandile Gumede’s protesters in central Durban. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

They Babylon await Mama’s Army

The eThekwini mayor has been removed. No, not fired. She’s been redeployed. And it wasn’t because of the dodgy waste tender

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Zandile Gumede was called to the ANC provincial office in Durban on Tuesday morning and informed of their redeployment. (Jackie Clausen/Gallo/The Times)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Gumede: going, going, gone…..

The Durban mayor has been axed along with her EXCO and that of Pietermaritzburg

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
While the ANC leadership is hopeful of reaching an agreement on credentials when the conference resumes on Sunday morning, some delegates fear a repeat of the collapse of the conference on several occasions by supporters of former mayor Zandile Gumede in 2015.. (Rajesh Jantilal)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Waiting for Mama in eThekwini

The mayor’s supporters have been protesting at City Hall but she’s nowhere to be found

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Sihle Zikalala. (Reuters/Rogan Ward)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Zikalala appoints youthful cabinet in KZN

Five first-timers appointed to KwaZulu-Natal’s new-look provincial executive

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Analysts have warned against opinion polls as an accurate measure of sentiment ahead of the election, due mainly to the divergent outcomes of all the studies available. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC takes steps to compensate for lack of women premier candidates

The ANC selected premiers after its election win.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
(Reuters)
2019 ELECTIONS

KZN ANCYL leader gunned down outside his home

Dumisani Moyo was taken to a local clinic where he died. A murder investigation docket has been opened and police are investigating the incident

  • Kamva Somdyala
1 min read
Harry Gwala district mayor 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
When Mike Mabuyakhulu was arrested in February, the Hawks stressed that the move was not political. (Thuli Dlamini)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Asset Forfeiture Unit seizes Mabuyakhulu assets over jazz festival graft probe

The KwaZulu-Natal deputy chairperson allegedly received payment for an event which did not take place

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Me (Paddy Harper) and my friend Sipho Khumalo, who died a year ago
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Paddy loses plot, and breakfast

The heat combines with bad choice of clothing to render columnist bereft of a cogent story

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Sindiso Magaqa was a proportional representation councillor at Umzimkhulu Local Municipality when he was ambushed and shot. File photo by Gallo
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Suspect arrested in Sindiso Magaqa murder

The suspect is appearing in the Umzimkhulu magistrate’s court on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of attempted murder

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read