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Besieged: Frustrations about ANC Women’s League president Sisi Tolashe’s leadership extended beyond the Women’s League and had become a broader ANC concern. Photo: MyANC

ANCWL buddies turn against Tolashe

The ANC Women’s League is expected to remove its president as internal tension rises over the party’s harsh treatment of women compared with how they treat the men

Calls are intensifying for former Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe to resign from Parliament and relinquish her role as president of the ANC Women’s League Photo: Phando Jikelo / RSA Parliament

ANC NWC resolve to show Tolashe the door

The decisions follows the working committee’s meeting on monday where it resolved that Tolashe should resign as an MP and the president of the ANC’s woman league

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

ANC integrity commission faces backlash over allegations of factional targeting in Limpopo

Claims have been made that the commission is being used to sideline political rivals by reviving allegations linked to the VBS Mutual Bank scandal

ANC electoral commission secretary Chief Livhuwani Matsila

ANC election commission secretary Matsila urges members not to elect ‘faces with the same problems’

The party wants people deployed in government to have tertiary qualifications

ANC and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa during a visit to Robben Island on Wednesday. (X/@MYANC)

Ramaphosa says ANC will shock critics in 2026 local elections, end ‘disrespect’

The party hopes to win back voters in the Western Cape, where its January 8 commemoration is being held

Strengthened: Members of the ANC integrity commission, including deputy chair Sophia Williams-de Bruyn (fourth from left) and chair Reverend Frank Chikane (fifth from left), will now have more clout. Photo: ANC/X

ANC strengthens integrity muscle

Members will be vetted and undergo political education to help the party clean its house

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa: ANC members who failed to appear before the integrity commission over state capture to face disciplinary action

Changes to the integrity commission hope to reaffirm it as the custodian of the ANC’s values, ethics and organisational discipline

Fomer Justice Minister Thembi Simelane. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Decision on Justice Minister Thembi Simelane, VBS more than a disciplinary matter, presidency says

Ramaphosa needs time to consider the matter because it involves the minister, which may affect the cabinet, his office stressed

ANC stalwart Frank Chikane.

Veterans should lead the ANC’s renewal, says Chikane

The ANC embarked on a programme of renewal in 2017 after it emerged that it had been complicit in state capture.

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Michele Spatari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

ANC leadership contest hots up

Horse trading and negotiations begin in earnest as the real battle starts for party positions ahead of the elective conference

Current ANC deputy president David Mabuza failed to meet the threshold for nomination, could help Zweli Mkhize instead of president Cyril Ramaphosa in the battle for the top position.
(Photo by Phill Magakoe /AFP via Getty Images)

The real battle starts now for ANC positions

The nominations have set the stage for the ANC race for top six, and horse trading and negotiations will take place in earnest

Standard Bank has flagged a “stealthy” run at the ANC presidency by treasurer general Paul Mashatile.

Standard Bank flags Mashatile’s ‘stealthy’ bid for ANC presidency

The bank says the ANC treasurer general has positioned himself as the perfect ‘compromise candidate’ for party president

Recommendation: A report drafted by chair of the ANC’s integrity commission George Mashamba has suggested President Cyril Ramaphosa take a leave of absence over the Phala Phala affair. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Phala Phala: Deadlock over Ramaphosa taking leave of absence

The integrity commission progress report says the factionalism in the party is placing it in an ‘invidious’ position

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

ANC in KZN reconstitutes integrity commission to fight corruption

While it agreed that the party has a duty to root out corruption in government, the province is opposed to the step-aside rule

President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) and Gwede Mantashe. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP)

No retreat, but no rush, for Ramaphosa faction on Zondo report

The resolution to heed state capture recommendations will survive ANC conference because the president can proclaim commitment to renewal while scandal corners him into compromise

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Ramaphosa ‘refused’ to answer Phala Phala questions at ANC integrity committee meeting

The president appeared before the group of elders on Tuesday, with sources saying he remained mum on the allegations

President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in October 2021. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa denies knowledge of abuse of public funds for party elections

The president, in a letter to a watchdog parliamentary committee, confirmed the authenticity of a leaked recording in which the problem is discussed, but said he was talking only…

‘Groot Krokodil’: Former president PW Botha (centre) and his cabinet in the 1980s. His administration was known for its draconian State Security Council. (Wessel Oosthuizen/Gallo Images)

Who the State Security Agency reports to should not depend on current roleplayers

Whether national security should be located inside or outside the presidency must be considered based on functionality and constitutional values

The ANC national working committee (NWC) has confirmed the disbandment of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) and has thrown its support behind a process of amalgamating it with the rival MK National Council (MKNC).
(Photo by Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

ANC disbands the MK Military Veterans Association

The SANDF is the only legitimate military force allowed to operate in the country, says Jessie Duarte

ANC chairperson and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Supplied

Mantashe on ANC integrity commission’s radar

The ANC’s integrity body’s chairperson, George Mashaba, said that the elders would discuss summoning the ANC chair over allegations of corruption