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Newly elected DA KZN leader Sithembiso Ngema

New DA KZN leader targets ANC and MKP support 

Newly elected DA KZN leader Sithembiso Ngema says the party is ready to expand aggressively ahead of crucial municipal elections.

Former Police Minister, Nathi Nhleko. File photo

Nathi Nhleko resigns from ANC, calls out ‘lunacy’ of Fikile Mbalula

But governing party says there is ‘nothing special’ about the former police minister’s resignation

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. (OJ Koloti/Gallo Images)

Mbalula can’t spin out of the Zuma ‘firepool’ drama

Fikile Mbalula and other ANC officials are now at pains to say that his words were ‘a joke’ and ‘political rhetoric’

ANC secretary general, Fikile Mbalula. File photo by Madelene Cronje/M&G

Mbalula admits ANC lied about Nkandla ‘fire pool’ to protect Zuma

Civil group #NotInMyName says the admission is a reason for citizens to ‘vote better’ in the upcoming elections

Former president Thabo Mbeki.

You are failing to lead, Mbeki tells ANC top leaders

The party’s top six leaders agreed with the former president’s letter at a meeting, saying they had not received a proper brief on Phala Phala from Cyril Ramaphosa

Former president Thabo Mbeki is set to meet the ANC’s top officials today to discuss his letter criticising the party’s stance on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm scandal.  (Presidency/Twitter)

Ramaphosa to meet with Thabo Mbeki over Phala Phala scandal

The ANC’s top seven officials are expected to meet former president Thabo Mbeki after he wrote a scathing letter to deputy president Paul Mashatile

Former president Thabo Mbeki.

Mbeki slams ANC for defending Ramaphosa ‘at all costs’

Former president says closing ranks around Ramaphosa alienates the masses

Gwede Mantashe and President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius)

Has the Phala Phala debacle helped Mantashe ingratiate himself in Ramaphosa camp

The minerals and energy minister could be the de facto prime minister of Cyril Ramaphosa after aiding the president through turbulent times

Police assist Julius Malema as he moves away from conflict on January 11, 2014, in Nkandla, South Africa. Stones were thrown at Malema while he was handing over a house to a woman living near President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla Estate. (Gallo Images / City Press / Khaya Ngwenya)

It took 10 years to land an interview with Malema … but it was worth the wait

Julius Malema is all grown up since the days he was expelled from the ANC but Paddy Harper still feels like a rookie after almost four decades on the job

DA candidate for Nkandla local municipality Malibongwe Dubazane  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mission implausible for the DA’s man in Nkandla

Malibongwe Dubazane is contesting all 14 of the IFP-run Nkandla local municipality’s wards

Awkward departure: The increasingly lesser-spotted Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng leaves his post with more of a whisper than a bang, having on the whole kept his more extreme personal views in check and shown himself willing to defend the constitution. (Madelene Cronjé)

Chief Justice Mogoeng, an end to an erratic era

The chief justice we didn’t know we needed protected the independence of the judiciary through dark days but leaves an ambivalent legacy

Minenhle Makhanya. (Naturals Cool)

Nkandla architect fails to appear in court

Minenhle Makhanya was apparently waiting for the result of a Covid-19 test on Friday, forcing the postponement of the case in which the Special Tribunal seeks to recover…

Employers affected by the recent unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal will be able to apply for support through the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) as soon as next week. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

The explosive mix of multilevel factors explain the violence amid the looting

The social, political and economic problems of poor governance need to be fixed so that public resources are managed and distributed equally

Supporters gesture as they gather in front of former South African president Jacob Zumas rural home in Nkandla on July 4, 2021. – On July 3, 2021, hundreds of supporters gathered to show solidarity for former South African president Jacob Zuma outside his Nkandla homestead, as the deadline looms for him to surrender to the authorities. In an unprecedented ruling, the constitutional court told Zuma on June 29, 2021 to hand himself over by Sunday to start a 15-month jail term for contempt of court after he repeatedly refused to give evidence to corruption investigators. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

The danger of Zuma’s Zulu nationalism

Jacob Zuma successfully used an appeal to tribal identity for his ascent to the presidency. And he tried to use it again to avoid being sent to jail

Controversial Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA​) spokesperson, Carl Niehaus has been suspended.
 (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

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

The ruling party had problems with submitting its list to the IEC, ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte told a media briefing on Thursday. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

We hope Zuma’s application to avoid being arrested is successful, Duarte says

But the ANC’s national executive committee also said the interests of an individual cannot take precedence over the rule of law

Former president Jacob Zuma.

High court to hear Zuma’s bid for stay of sentence on Tuesday

The Zondo commission is arguing that the high court has no jurisdiction over the warrant for his arrest or his claim that his constitutional rights have been violated

Former president Jacob Zuma.

Zuma gives his own version of events, detailing why he won’t turn himself in to begin his jail sentence

In an address to his supporters, the former president referred to a conspiracy against him, involving Thuli Madonsela, the judiciary and his political rivals

Zulu monarch, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini (C). (Photo by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/ Sandile Ndlovu)

ANC pressures Zulu king-in-waiting to deal with subjects flocking to Nkandla

ANC leaders’ negotiations with Zuma fall flat causing party leaders to call on presumptive Zulu monarch to take action

Jacob Zuma will not hand himself over to the police by Sunday, according to his son. (Oupa Nkosi)

Zuma has no plans to report to a police station, his son threatens to ‘shoot to kill any policeman that comes near us’

ANC leaders are to ask deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte discuss his 15-month sentence and to call on his supporters to return to their homes