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Former parliamentary speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Thursday thanked the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) for allowing her to speak at a public ANC event for the first time since her arrest last year.
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‘You have not abandoned me,’ Maphisa-Nqakula tells uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association

ANC Veterans League deputy president Mavuso Msimang has questioned why the party allowed the MK party to be formed

Former president Jacob Zuma.  (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Where are all the (ex)president’s men and women?

Supporters have stood by Jacob Zuma through scandal after scandal. Some have stayed loyal to him and others have turned their backs

Ramaphosa calls Zuma’s imprisonment a sad moment in the history of the ANC

This weekend’s NEC meeting comes as the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal struggles to maintain order as Zuma supporters allegedly barricade roads, torch trucks and loot in protests against…

Controversial Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA​) spokesperson, Carl Niehaus has been suspended.
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ANC suspends MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus

The ANC has resolved that Niehaus’s conduct at Nkandla was in contravention of rule 25.17 of the party’s constitution and warrants disciplinary action

Creating instability? Former state security minister David Mahlobo, suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and former president Jacob Zuma are all part of the so-called radical economic transformation faction in the party. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

How Zuma’s 15-month sentence will affect this weekend’s NEC meeting

This Constitutional Court ruling comes at an inconvenient time for the Ramaphosa faction. Magashule’s strength is waning, but Zuma still wields significant support

The president of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), Kebby Maphatsoe,

MKMVA threatens court action against top six

The structure will consider taking the ANC to court if it does not agree to its demands on disbandment, says MKMVA president Kebby Maphatsoe

Unequal justice: Carl Niehaus of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association warned of ‘civil unrest’ if Jacob Zuma is arrested. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

MK committee to look into Gupta influence in military veteran’s association

Party insiders say a report on the Guptas’ association with leaders of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association will help rid the structure of Jacob Zuma’s most loyal…

The ANC’s top six at their last policy conference. Later today, the top six candidates for the upcoming conference will be revealed.

MKMVA accuse top six of being factional in collapsed meeting

A defiant MKMVA has vowed it is business as usual, after a meeting with the top six ended with the military veterans being kicked out of the virtual platform

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).
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ANC disbands the MK Military Veterans Association

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

The president of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), Kebby Maphatsoe,

Maphatsoe seeks deliberation on MKMVA disbandment

Maphatsoe said the decision was surprising, given that it deviated from the MK unitary process the MKMVA and the MK Council had been working on

Men armed with crude weapons on the outskirts of Ramaphosa in 2008, shortly before they gave chase to several men who appeared to evade the attack by hiding in nearby mine dumps. (James Oatway)

[BR]OTHER: Xenophobia born of dreams deferred

A new book of images and essays about the Afrophobic violence in South Africa attempts to take the narrative forward

Axed public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. File photo by Madelene Cronje

Toe the line: Mantashe instructs ANC caucus to vote for process against Mkhwebane

The ANC chairperson has instructed its caucus ahead of the vote to establish a committee to investigate the public protector’s fitness to hold office

The supreme court of appeal is yet to rule on the appeal to the high court finding that his release on medical parole was unlawful and he should return to prison. (Michele Spatari/POOL/AFP)

Zuma snubs Zondo commission

His lawyer says the summons was not in line with the Constitutional Court order

The ANC has served uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) spokesperson Carl Niehaus with a notice to suspend him as an employee of the governing party over his public attack on party deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte.

Niehaus has 48 hours to state why he should not be axed

The MKMVA spokesperson has been asked to give reasons why he should not be fired from his position at Luthuli House after attacking Jesse Duarte last week

Targeted: Foreign traders have not yet returned to their stalls as they are afraid of more attacks. More marches are planned in Durban in November, while traders lament that the city has taken no action yet

Xenophobic tensions surge in KZN

Amid protests by the ANC’s MK Military Veterans, distressed foreign nationals have shut their stalls at a Durban flea market

The MKMVA condemned the antics of DA leader

Zuma unlikely to get a fair trial in SA – MKMVA

The MKMVA strongly asserts former president Jacob Zuma’s inalienable right to be presumed innocent until, and if, proven guilty.

Des van Rooyen
9/12/2015– 13/12/2015

Des van Rooyen admits asking Guptas’ help for MKMVA

This is not the first Gupta-related finding by a Public Protector against Van Rooyen.

The incoming NEC has also called on to look at extending the support given to the families of former MK combatants.

The role of the defence sector in unlocking economic opportunities

Sub-committee chairperson David Mahlobo said, in particular, the ANC would look at creating industrialisation opportunities.

Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association chairperson Kebby Maphatsoe.

MKMVA boss launches scathing attack on judiciary

Maphatsoe lashed out at the courts, accusing the judiciary of planning to sabotage the ANC’s national conference.

The president of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), Kebby Maphatsoe,

Kebby’s branch backs Cyril: ‘I don’t want to make excuses’

The ANC branch of MKMVA treasurer Des van Rooyen, who also backs Dlamini-Zuma, nominated Ramaphosa.