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The MKP’s Mervyn Dirks led its MPLs out of the legislature chamber in Pietermaritzburg in protest against the election of the whips and committee chairs going ahead. Photo supplied
ANC

MK Party walks out as KwaZulu-Natal Legislature elects committee chairs

Influential committee posts are shared among the members of the province’s governing coalition

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
A number of Sihle Zikalala’s allies are staring at the axe.
ANC

Cabinet reshuffle looms as KwaZulu-Natal gets new premier

The new appointments are expected to be made from Thursday

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
The battle for ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairperson is likely to be a two-way contest between sitting chairperson and premier Sihle Zikalala, and senior party MP Siboniso Duma (Photo: Jackie Clausen/Sunday Times/Gallo Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Zikalala, Duma top choices for ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairperson

Any other candidate will need to be nominated from the floor by 25% of the ANC branches

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
Newcastle Mayor Ntuthuko Mahlaba. (Image via Newcastle Municipality/Facebook)
ANC YOUTH LEAGUE

Newcastle mayor out on R20k bail

Dr Ntuthuko Mahlaba was arrested 10 days ago on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder

  • Canny Maphanga
1 min read
South Africa’s Jewish and Muslim communities have condemned the killing of Halima Hoosen-Preston and the knife assault on her family at their home in Durban, in what appears to be an Islamophobic attack. (Cornel van Heerden/Gallo)
ANCYL

Newcastle mayor arrested in connection with political killings

Ntuthuko Mahlaba is the second ANC mayor in KZN to be arrested in connection with the killing of their own comrades

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read