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The ANC in the Moses Kotane local municipality in North West has come under fire for putting forward for municipal positions party leaders and card-carrying members in the Bojanala region who did not have matric certificates.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

MEC expelled after pretending to be voting delegate at North West conference

The province’s ANC has expelled eight of its members, including five municipal councillors who voted for an EFF member as Speaker

Relebohile Mafokane. File photo

Senzo Mchunu is implicated in job fraud

The minister supported the appointment of a senior North West official who only has a matric certificate, despite CV claims

Out of office: President Cyril Ramaphosa initially refused to meet Job Mokgoro, because there
was ‘no need to’, a source said

North West premier Job Mokgoro resigns

Ramaphosa has finally met with premier Mokgroro resulting in him announcing his resignation on Thursday morning

Pissed off: Outgoing North West premier Job Mokgoro says underperforming municipalities and unemployment are being used as a smokescreen in the contested province.

‘You have treated me like a pisspot,’ Job Mokgoro tells ANC

The ANC in the North West is scrambling to oust its premier after a ‘bungled’ process

Vaccine hesitators: Demonstrators at an anti-vaccine protest in Gatesville, Cape Town, last weekend. Research shows it is white men who are the most hesitant to get the jab. Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images

The North West merry-go-round

Hesitancy is this week’s theme: from white men who don’t want a jab, to Bushy Maape, who doesn’t seem all that keen on his new job

Pissed off: Outgoing North West premier Job Mokgoro says underperforming municipalities and unemployment are being used as a smokescreen in the contested province.

Job is jobless as Maape gets the nod as new North West premier

North West premier Job Mokgoro is now officially jobless after the ANC recalled him and replaced him with Bushy Maape, a member of the interim provincial committee (IPC) running…

former health minister Zweli Mkhize only approved the total R132-million budget for NHI communication in March last year, 199 days after the agreement was signed. Digital Vibes only delivered Covid-19-related communications services.  (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images)

ANC Integrity Committee recommends Zweli Mkhize step aside

ANC sources say the report by the committee will be tabled at the next national executive committee meeting

Klingon: Job Mokgoro is resisting the North West interim provincial committee’s call for him to step down as premier. (Tiro Ramatlhatse)

Mokgoro was party to talks of his resignation

The North West premier has defied the interim provincial committee’s decision

Nationalising the dairy company would save jobs and the Lichtenburg factory, Giwusa said. (Madelene Cronjé)

Union calls on government to nationalise ‘profit-driven’ Clover

The dairy’s Lichtenburg factory, which is being closed due to service delivery issues, employs about 380 permanent and 40 temporary workers

Controversy: North West Premier Job Mokgoro has come under fire for appointing Relebohile Mafokane. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24

NW Premier Mokgoro ‘meddles’ in contentious R1.5m HOD appointment

Provincial HOD hired despite implication in ‘jobs-for-pals’ probe involving former minister Faith Muthambi

Supra Mahumapelo addressing his supporters outside the Johannesburg high court on Wednesday 6 February, 2019. (Photo by Gallo Images/ Netwerk 24 / Beeld)

Mahumapelo supporters reject ANC intervention in North West

Successful applicants still want the high court order reinstating Mahumapelo’s provincial executive committee to be enforced

Former president Jacob Zuma.

NEC can’t crucify Zuma when it isn’t acting in the North West, says Mahumapelo ally

A North West ANC leader has written to Ace Magashule, asking that the NEC abide by a court ruling to disband the interim provincial committee

Fanbase: Backers of Supra Mahumapelo (centre) celebrate after a court ruling that the decision to disband the ANC’s North West PEC was unlawful. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Beeld

Disbanded ANC North West regions may be reinstated

Supporters of ousted North West ANC chair Supra Mahumapelo are set to overturn the ruling dissolving their regional executive committees

Waiting in the wings: Obed Bapela is the ANC’s national executive committee convener for the North West province and is said to be ready to replace the incumbent. (Lisa Hnatowicz/Gallo Images/Beeld)

North West premier goes off the rails

Job Mokgoro’s defiance of party orders exposes further rifts in the ANC

What if Ramaphosa gets sick?

Senior South African politicians have not been spared the coronavirus. What happens if the head of state is not well enough to be at his desk?

(John McCann/M&G)

Provinces’ plans to fix education

Preoccupied with pass rates, buzzwords and early development, our premiers are neglecting some basic challenges

Nomgcobo Jiba (above) and Lawrence Mrwebi were fired by the president following an inquiry outcome. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Inquiry into Jiba and Mrwebi’s fitness to hold office set to begin

President Cyril Ramaphosa suspended both Jiba and Mrwebi in October 2018 pending the outcome of the inquiry

North West agriculture MEC Manketsi Tlhape (L), an ally of former premier Supra Mahumapelo, denies a herd of cattle was delivered by AgriDelight to her farm. (Tiro Ramatlhatse/ Sowetan/Gallo Images)

NW agriculture MEC fired

Manketsi Tlhape was axed on Thursday afternoon

Frustration reigned at the R2.3-billion VBS Mutual Bank heist court case after another postponement, with one of the accused’s lawyers arguing that his client was suffering financial prejudice because of the state’s alleged ineptitude.

VBS scandal: 4 ANC mayors linked to VBS looting sacked

It has emerged that several North West municipalities invested R314-million in the bank

It has been reported that Mahumapelo put up a fight to keep his position. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC North West PEC disbanded, Supra Mahumapelo removed as provincial chair

North West Premier Job Mokgoro has been appointed as the interim convener of the province