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Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Doubt on ANC leaders in KZN

The provincial police commissioner’s allegations against the police minister and the higher education minister’s Seta appointments have undermined their reputations

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Mlungisi Louw/Volksblad/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa: ANC still discussing disbanding Gauteng, KZN executive committees

The party is expected to discuss the matter at its upcoming national executive committee meeting, set for next week

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.

ANC Gauteng provincial committee might face the chop — but KZN could survive

Sources said the party’s national executive committee is set to finalise the possible dissolution of the two provincial bodies at its next meeting in two weeks

IFP cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi

Buthelezi fires back at ANC ‘imbecility’ as KZN unity government tensions flare

The Cogta MEC said there was a coordinated ANC effort to undermine his work and his standing in the IFP

ANC chairman Siboniso Duma hit out at provincial coalition partners the DA and IFP on Monday. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

KZN ANC marks 100 days in unity government, lambasts DA and IFP’s Buthelezi

The ANC accused the Democratic Alliance of being self-serving and Thulasizwe Buthelezi of being divisive, but said the coalition would run its course

The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal

DA accuses MK party of plotting to collapse service delivery in KwaZulu-Natal

The accusation comes after the MK party in legislature voted against the approval of all provincial department budgets in recent portfolio committee meetings

The MKP’s Mervyn Dirks led its MPLs out of the legislature chamber in Pietermaritzburg in protest against the election of the whips and committee chairs going ahead. Photo  supplied

ANC expels Mervyn Dirks for cosying up to MK party

Dirks is the first ANC member to be expelled for aligning himself with former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo

It would be ‘unwise’ not to vote for ANC, says Zuma

The former president said the ANC was the only party able to bring ‘real change’ to South Africa

ANC KZN MPL Mervyn Dirks

‘Rogue’ cadre Mervyn Dirks sworn into KZN Legislature

Dirks previously irked the ANC when he demanded that president Cyril Ramaphosa be investigated for ethical violations

Mzimuni Ngiba

Jailed ANC councillor accused of killing predecessor is finally fired

Mzimuni Ngiba, however, was axed for missing council meetings, not because of the murder charge he is facing

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo: Jerome Delay/AFP

ANC in KwaZulu-Natal used Zuma and then discarded him, says Niehaus

The provincial leaders used Zuma’s popularity to further their political careers, according to expelled cadre Carl Niehaus

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The ANC’s tyranny of the collective

Moral duality characterises collective societies. One set of norms applies to in-group members; a different set applies to out-group individuals. The governing party’s…

How the ‘Chris Hani cabal’ outmanoeuvred Paul Mashatile at ANC KZN conference

Cyril Ramaphosa’s key allies believe the Mashatile faction used the provincial sentiment to make the president look bad by advising him not to make an appearance

ANC KZN members head to court to stop provincial 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