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Besieged: Frustrations about ANC Women’s League president Sisi Tolashe’s leadership extended beyond the Women’s League and had become a broader ANC concern. Photo: MyANC
ANC

ANCWL buddies turn against Tolashe

The ANC Women’s League is expected to remove its president as internal tension rises over the party’s harsh treatment of women compared with how they treat the men

  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Mandisa Makgakga
9 min read
Calls are intensifying for former Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe to resign from Parliament and relinquish her role as president of the ANC Women’s League Photo: Phando Jikelo / RSA Parliament
ANC

ANC NWC resolve to show Tolashe the door

The decisions follows the working committee’s meeting on monday where it resolved that Tolashe should resign as an MP and the president of the ANC’s woman league

  • Mandisa Makgakga
3 min read
Calls are intensifying for former Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe to resign from Parliament and relinquish her role as president of the ANC Women’s League Photo: Phando Jikelo / RSA Parliament
ACTIONSA

Axe falls on Sisisi Tolashe

Ramaphosa appointed Sindisiwe Chikunga, the minister of women, youth and persons with disabilities, as interim minister of social development

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
4 min read
Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe. (DSD New)
ACTIONSA

Tolashe faces second wave of criminal complaints as DA enters SUV probe

The move comes amid mounting political pressure and follows ActionSA’s earlier criminal complaint, which it says the Hawks are investigating

  • Mandisa Makgakga
2 min read
DIRECTOR GENERAL

Social development appoints acting DG after Ramaphosa’s scathing rebuke

Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe was forced to retract a DG vacancy post she defended after President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified that the power to appoint someone in…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe
CABINET REPORT CARDS 2025

Sisisi Tolashe: Social Development

SCORE: E Tolashe’s 2025 has been marked by a combination of policy initiatives and ongoing controversy. On the policy front, she prioritised efforts to root out fraud and…

  • MG Reporter
1 min read
Blazing: Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe who is also president of the ANC Women’s League, previously defended Netshipale’s hiring to parliament and said his appointment was within prevailing prescripts within public service. Photo: DSD New
ALEXANDRA ABRAHAMS

UPDATED: Under siege minister charges DG

Minister Sisisi Tolashe suspended director general Peter Netshipale amid internal scandals, contract disputes and whistleblower allegations at the department of social development

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
7 min read
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. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANC

‘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

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

Zandile Gumede denies plans to join Zuma’s MK party, but leaves door open

The eThekwini ANC regional chair, former mayor and corruption accused has said she would not wish the step-aside rule even on ‘my worst enemy’

  • Lunga Mzangwe
7 min read
Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
CABINET REPORT CARDS 2024

Sisisi Tolashe

SCORE: E Besides filling up venues for the ANC Women’s League prayer evenings and marches against gender-based violence, one has to scratch one’s head to figure out exactly what…

  • MG Reporter
1 min read
ANC deputy secretary general Nomvula Mokonyane. (Ntswe Mokoena)
NASI ISPANI

Joburg in crisis because ANC isn’t in charge, says Mokonyane

The deputy secretary general of the ANC warned that not voting would be a setback to resolving issues such as electricity, housing and water This content is restricted to…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
1 min read
Comeback: ANC Women’s League president Sisisi Tolashe has welcomed the ‘rehabilitation’ of corruption-accused Zandile Gumede. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images
ANC

Return of corruption-accused Zandile Gumede ‘excites’ ANC Women’s League

The ANC Women’s League has said that the graft-accused former mayor and eThekwini region heavyweight is one of its ‘best campaigners’

  • Lunga Mzangwe
5 min read
Allies of former ANC Women’s League president Bathabile Dlamini emerged as the victors in two of the most influential provinces during the organisation’s elections on Monday. (Elmond Jiyane, GCIS)
ANCWL

Bathabile Dlamini allies win big at ANCWL provincial conferences

Sisisi Tolase suffered her first loss since becoming women’s league president with her allies failing to bring back a win in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction.
ANC

Editorial: Mourn not the demise of RET

Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction

  • Editorial
2 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)
ANC WOMEN S LEAGUE

Ramaphosa calls on ANC women to secure victory in the 2024 elections

The president wants women to push for 40% of government procurement for female entrepreneurs

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read