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The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CASAC

Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful

About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelez.
BHEKI MNGOMEZULU

Buthelezi’s succession sparks democracy debate

The IFP’s constitution provides that the nomination of national office bearers be approved by the branches. This was not done for its new president

  • Bheki Mngomezulu
6 min read
Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa slammed its board as “unadvisable” and “not fit for its purpose”. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AUDITOR GENERAL

Scopa’s new chairperson promises to kick butt on public spending

Mkhuleko Hlengwa warns that Scopa will use its new far-reaching powers

  • Sabelo Skiti
3 min read
Mail & Gaurdian
ANC GAUTENG

EDITORIAL: Blaming migrants not on

Blaming foreigners for a nation’s problems is a tactic beloved of populist and nationalist politicians everywhere

  • Editorial
2 min read
“People call us the watchdog of Parliament. I want us to be known as not just a dog that watches, but a dog that bites,” newly appointed Scopa chairperson, Mkhuleko Hlengwa says. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANC

New Scopa chair wants parly watchdog to have more ‘bite’

The head of parliament’s watchdog says he is going to get more power to dig into graft and corruption, and ensure there are consequences

  • Lester Kiewit
4 min read
Battle lines: The Inkatha Freedom Party could bolster the ANC’s chances of taking back the City of Johannesburg from the DA coalition. (AFP)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC, IFP eyeing Jo’burg takeover

The Democratic Alliance’s relationship with the Inkatha Freedom Party is on the rocks and the ANC sees an opportunity

  • Natasha Marrian
4 min read
Several sources have told the Mail & Guardian, the Inkatha Freedom Party is tipped to take the position. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
ANC

Parliament’s budget watchdog role tipped to go to the IFP

The M&G understands the ANC plans to offer the position to the IFP in exchange for support in metros lost during 2016 local government elections

  • Lester Kiewit
3 min read
Survival tactics: David Makhura knows that e-tolls erode support for his party
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

What are the ANC’s options if it should lose Gauteng?

ANC Gauteng on a knife edge but party remains quietly confiden

  • Natasha Marrian
3 min read
Popular leaders: Professor David Everatt has been conducting electoral polls for years. He says Nelson Mandela and Cyril Ramaphosa are the only ANC presidents who have polled better than the party. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
2019 ELECTIONS

The fine art of pollings

A Gauteng elections research team says an ANC win in the province will mean the party has one last chance to ‘get it right’

  • Natasha Marrian
5 min read
Neglected: There are no jobs to be found in Sezela, the townsfolk say. A large proportion of the town consists of pensioners who used to work for the Illovo Sugar mill. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
2019 ELECTIONS

Umdoni residents want change

Counting Every Person: The M&G Data Desk has analysed voting results across SA for the past 20 years

  • Paddy Harper
  • M&G Data Desk
4 min read
“As a result of the weakened exchange rate, the October outlook is a major concern,” says Minister Jeff Radebe. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Radebe flags October fuel price outlook as ‘major concern’

The minister attributed the rising fuel price to international oil prices, and increases in the fuel and road accident fund levies

  • Lameez Omarjee
3 min read
Intrepid and enterprising: Eddie Koch
ANTON HARBER 1

Campaigning journalist was a  ‘mensch’

Eddie Koch was a relentlessly determined reporter and the people he wrote about mattered

  • Anton Harber
6 min read
Right stuff: Former Democratic Alliance KwaZulu-Natal MPL and youth leader Mbali Ntuli has a new job – to attract young black voters in the province to the DA.
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

‘DA needs new strategy in KZN’

Mbali Ntuli is set to shake up the province to win support, ruffling a few feathers in the process

  • Dineo Bendile
  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Sassa CEO Pearl Bhengu: “I reaffirm… that Sassa has no alternative remedy for the cash payment services and requires the input and intervention of this honourable court.”
INKHATA FREEDOM PARTY

Letters to the editor: November 17 to 23 2017

Readers write in about the Inkatha Freedom Party leader’s reputation, tackling racism and the possibility of a new start for Zimbabwe

  • Letters
6 min read
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
BUTHELEZI ARCHIVES

Mangosuthu Buthelezi is a giant of a man who falls short in his museum

The museum honouring Mangosuthu Buthelezi in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, elides the main ingredient – truth

  • Kwanele Sosibo
6 min read
IFP national treasurer and elections head Narend Singh confirmed the killing of the party member, allegedly by members of the ANC. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
BUTHELEZI ARCHIVES

Buthelezi bows out … at long last

Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s reign as the leader of the IFP has finally ended

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
With just 531 criminal convictions from the 42 365 complaints, either South Africans are going out of their way to tell a whole bunch of outrageous lies or the state isn’t all that interested in doing something about police brutality.
ANC

IFP concedes to holding ANC, IEC members hostage

The IFP says its supporters held election officials and ANC members hostage after apparently seeing ballot boxes being loaded into a strange car.

  • Sapa
1 min read
The Inkhata Freedom Party won a ward seat from the ruling party in Albert Luthuli
BY ELECTIONS

IFP narrowly takes ANC ward seat in Mpumalanga by-election

The IFP has won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, IEC results have shown.

  • Sapa
2 min read
Opposition parties are investigating the possibility of contesting the 2014 general elections under one political umbrella after President Jacob Zuma’s address.
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Parties may join forces to fight ANC in 2014 poll

South Africa’s opposition parties are investigating the possibility of contesting the 2014 general elections under one political umbrella.

  • Nickolaus Bauer
3 min read