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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
File photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images via Getty Images
ANC

EFF scrambles to retain some power in Gauteng

The Red Berets are trying to convince the ANC to keep their local government arrangements intact

  • Mandisa Makgakga
5 min read
Eastern Cape ANC general-secretary Oscar Mabuyane on the side-lines of the ANC’s 55th national policy conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre in July 2017. (Photo by Gallo Images /The Times/Masi Losi)
ANC

Mabuyane win will boost Ramaphosa’s chance

Outgoing Eastern Cape chairperson Oscar Mabuyane is ready to lead the province for another term. The ANC provincial heavyweight and one of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s loyal…

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
Neglected: KwaZulu-Natal ANC branches say national leaders are fighting factional battles with the likes of Supra Mahumapelo (above) and not on their battles. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo Images/ Netwerk 24/Beeld
ACE MAGASHULE

Selecting ANC councillor before addressing interim body a recipe for disaster — KZN branches

Branch leaders in the Lower South Coast region have told the party that the regional task team has outstayed its term

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has sought to debunk claims made against it by former Gauteng health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku, calling his words misleading. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC NDC lambasts PEC in ruling reinstating Masuku, Diko

In April the M&G reported that the two were ordered to step aside from all party positions and to desist from speaking on behalf of the organisation until the SIU investigation…

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
Free State Premier Sisi Ntombela. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

Ramaphosa instructs dissolved Free State PEC to compromise

President Ramaphosa has instructed the former Free State PEC to back off from appealing the court judgement dissolving it and instead form a compromise leadership.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
Battling on: Despite his links to the infamous arms deal, the rape of a woman and now state capture, former president Jacob Zuma still has supporters. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)
ACE MAGASHULE

Zuma-ists hope to ace provinces

Acolytes of the ex-president gear up take-back regions in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and North West before the ANC mid-term meeting

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

Axed Gumede to stand again as ANC chairperson

Ousted Durban mayor’s backers want her back as ANC mayoral candidate for 2021

  • 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
Zandile Gumede, the corruption-accused former mayor was not allowed to attend the elective meeting. (Jackie Clausen/Gallo/The Times)
ANC PEC

No decision on Gumede’s fate — ANC

The governing party has deferred taking action on her fate by a week

  • Paddy Harper
2 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)
ANC

​Gumede to take ‘enforced’ leave of absence but maintains her innocence

The eThekwini ANC chairperson was asked to take leave or face removal

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Supra Mahumapelo. (Gallo Images)
ANC NEC

Court orders that Mahumapelo resume duties as ANC NW chairperson

Last week, the Johannesburg high court ordered the reinstatement of the North West ANC PEC

  • Tshidi Madia
2 min read
Mahumapelo has secured a provisional place on the ANC’s draft parliamentary list despite being plagued by a number of scandals. (Frennie Shivambu)
ANC NEC

Unfazed Supra bounces back

In August last year, the ANC’s national executive committee confirmed the disbandment of the North West PEC

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Following the judgment, Supra Mahumapelo said, despite celebrations in the courtroom, he was ‘not elated’ by the decision, because they should never have had to seek court action in the first place. (Rajesh Jantilal/M&G)
ANC NORTH WEST

Court rules North West PEC must be reinstated

The high court found that the consultative process in the lead-up to the disbandment of the PEC in 2018 was not compliant with the ANC’s procedures

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
Mahumapelo’s fall from grace was characterised by violent protests throughout his province earlier this year. (Rajesh Jantilal/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

Mahumapelo rejects task team offer

The task team was set up by Luthuli House to run the ANC in the province until after next year’s national elections

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
North West agriculture MEC Manketsi Tlhape, an ally of former premier Supra Mahumapelo, denies that cattle delivered by AgriDelight to her farm. (Tiro Ramatlhatse/ Sowetan/Gallo Images)
AGRIDELIGHT

Agriculture MEC ‘pockets’ emerging farmer’s cattle

North West agriculture MEC Manketsi Tlhape is alleged to have taken 44 cattle meant for an emerging farmer in her hometown of Delareyville

  • Thanduxolo Jika
4 min read
Top matric pupils for 2018 (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

ANC confirms North West PEC dissolved

The disbandment of the PEC means that Mahumapelo has now been removed as provincial executive committee chairperson in the North West province

  • Raeesa Pather
2 min read
Clue to question 22
ANC NEC

ANC NEC holds special meeting to decide Supra’s fate

Earlier this year, ANC members successfully pushed for Mahumapelo to be removed as North West Premier but he retained a powerful position in the party

  • Mahlatse Mahlase
3 min read
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ANC GAUTENG

Makhura’s problem: His provincial committee

Makhura reportedly supported a group that backed former Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau as his deputy

  • Dineo Bendile
2 min read
(Madelene Cronje/M&G)
ANC LIMPOPO

ANC Limpopo conference at risk of interdiction

Saturday’s court application — which is expected to be heard at 11am — is likely to see further delays on conference proceedings

  • Dineo Bendile
1 min read