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The ANC integrity commission faces backlash over allegations of factional targeting in Limpopo. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Limpopo is ‘best performing province in ANC list process’

Electoral committee secretary Chief Matsila says the process is airtight and the provincial secretary could not have tampered with it

To 2024? ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Time for Ramaphosa to reveal who paid for his rise into the presidency

Concourt ruling vindicates the EFF’s long-standing call for disclosure of funds and donations received during the ANC’s internal party battles and contests.

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe

‘Factional’ ANC Veterans League chastised by Motlanthe

ANC Limpopo leaders called on the election committee to change the candidate lists in favour of Ramaphosa faction days before Motlanthe’s report on factions in the party

President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear before the Zondo commission for four days in late April, to testify both in his capacity as president of the country and as president of the ANC. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa to testify at Zondo commission in late April

The president will give evidence both in his capacity as the head of state and as the leader of the governing party

The Pretoria high court on Tuesday dismissed with costs the Economic Freedom Fighters’s bid to force the disclosure of details of donations to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign to claim the leadership of the ANC in 2017. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa can’t separate funding for ANC bid from becoming president, high court hears

Counsel for the Economic Freedom Fighters are seeking to force the disclosure of records showing who bankrolled the CR17 campaign

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

Public protector’s ‘mistakes’ were made to nail the president, court hears

Busisiwe Mkhwebane discarded facts that were inconvenient to her when she investigated the CR17 campaign, Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers argued

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

CR17 report is not perfect, but the investigation was rational, court hears

So says public protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane’s lawyer, who said she had reason to suspect the money was being laundered through the campaign

Most South Africans agree that the country is in a mess and that the ANC must go if there is to be any chance of a second building of a new South Africa.

#CR17 fight heads to the Constitutional Court

amaBhungane’s arguments about the disclosure of campaign funding are also expected to be heard

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (David Harrison/M&G)

‘Let ANC deal with its leaders facing corruption charges,’ Ramaphosa tells parliament

The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements

Axed public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. File photo by Madelene Cronje

Reining in the public protector

As well as its scathing findings on Mkhwebane’s investigation into Ramaphosa, the high court also made important in-principle pronouncements

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Mkhwebane’s CR17 report is ‘confused, inexplicable, irrational’

The Public Protector was derided by the Pretoria High Court for refusing to consider facts logically and for a material error of law

(John McCann/M&G)

Be bold, Cyril, even if it’s politically risky

He must end the Mantashe problem and execute his strategy rather than keep the ANC onside

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane (Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo)

Court tests protector’s powers

In the Ramaphosa vs Mkhwebane case, the court has been asked to rein in the public protector

President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear before the Zondo commission for four days in late April, to testify both in his capacity as president of the country and as president of the ANC. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa calls the public protector’s affidavit “disingenuous” and “evasive”

The president continues to question Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s motives

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Mkhwebane hits back at Baloyi

The public protector has asked the court to strike out claims that she and her chief executive had acted unconstitutionally

“No other person would be permitted to get away with the kind of obfuscation contained in the president’s affidavits,” Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said in court papers. (Phill Magakoe/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Mkhwebane hits back at Ramaphosa

In an answering affidavit, the public protector accuses the president of obfuscating and being part of a “grand stratagem” to have her removed

Basani Baloyi wanted the court to order her reinstatement and to declare that the public protector had breached her constitutional duty to act without fear, favour or prejudice.

Public Protector ‘played chess with the country’

A labour dispute between Busisiwe Mkhwebane and her former chief operating officer has laid bare allegations of political interference

Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

FIC: No conclusive indication that CR17 laundered money

In court papers, the Financial Intelligence Centre insists that it acted lawfully in providing the information it did to the Public Protector

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)

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

The company focused its efforts on ANC delegates who would choose the next president, asking them to register for a newsletter and using their details to push CR17 content. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

How to win votes and influence people

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