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Former Limpopo premier Stan Mathabatha. Photo: Marketing and Comms, University of Limpopo

Stan Mathabatha steps down as Limpopo ANC provincial chair

Mathabatha said he was concerned by what he called ‘unethical and un-ANC tendencies’ by party members in regard to the elective conferences of the Vhembe and Waterberg regions

Former ANC MP Boy Mamabolo

EXCLUSIVE: Boy Mamabolo to register Born To Win party after resigning from the ANC

Mamabolo said his party would get to ‘eat’ the support of the Economic Freedom Fighters and the ANC

The mayor of Polokwane John Mpe

Three-way face-off for ANC’s top job in Limpopo

Trio of ANC heavyweights being touted as likely to compete for the provincial chairperson job

Justice Minister Mmamaloku Kubayi

Kubayi to discuss her rumoured ANC deputy president ambitions ‘when time is right’

The justice minister has also rejected claims that she is part of a plot to stop party deputy president Paul Matsatile from standing in the ANC’s 2027 elective conference

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

The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal

MK party brings out big guns for Thabazimbi by-election

A total of 21 parties and five independents will contest the dysfunctional Limpopo council next week

Standing firm: Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba won’t remove an MEC linked to the bank scandal and won’t walk back her comment about Zimbabweans receiving healthcare in South Africa. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo

Limpopo premier won’t act on MEC over bank heist

The Limpopo premier wants a clampdown on the flow of illegal immigrants into the province

Not in the pipeline: Many people living in Limpopo’s Vhembe district have no council-supplied water. Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Life in VBS land: residents of the Vhembe District face long daily walks – and risk attacks by crocodiles –  in their struggle for water

Residents blame councils, not the national and provincial government, for their plight

Former VBS Bank chairperson Tshifhiwa Matodzi’s leaked affidavit alleged the involvement of a number of people in the looting of the bank, including EFF leader Julius Malema and deputy president Floyd Shivambu. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

VBS victim: EFF wants stolen land returned but won’t pay back our looted life savings

Victims say ANC is “afraid” to act against implicated MEC Florence Radzilani

Standing firm: Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba won’t remove an MEC linked to the bank scandal and won’t walk back her comment about Zimbabweans receiving healthcare in South Africa. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo

ANC in Limpopo under pressure to choose premier candidates

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Reckless: Operation Dudula members attack black Africans in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Getting rid of poor black foreigners will not stop crime and solve the unemployment problem.  (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Xenophobia and the beggaring of neighbours

South Africa is quick to forget ubuntu or its own destabilising role when it comes to regional policies

A passenger minivan tows a trailer loaded with goods near the border crossing with Zimbabwe, near Musina, South Africa. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A bus trip from Zimbabwe to South Africa is through the belly of corruption

The broken Zimbabwe economy and political system are too much of a push factor for xenophobia and Aaron Motsoaledi to stop people seeking refuge in Mzansi

Operation Dudula members gathered in front of Kalafong and then Hillbrow hospitals to try to stop ‘illegal foreigners’ from receiving healthcare. Photo: File

Scapegoating ‘illegal foreigners’ is no answer to South Africa’s historic, home-grown crises

enophobic opportunists and demagogues steer us away from addressing our own social failures

People from all backgrounds marched in their thousands through Johannesburg CBD on Thursday in protest against the recent xenophobic attacks.

Don’t blame black Africans from other countries on the continent for the ANC’s inability to govern

South Africa’s health system is sick because it is poorly managed, planning is inadequate, morale among employees is low and it is tainted by corruption

President Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, please deliver a government that will attract Zimbabweans home

Zimbabweans have been forced by hunger, joblessness, poverty, fear and repression to cross into South Africa — where xenophobia is rife and they are persecuted