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eThekwini metro mayor Cyril Xaba announced at the city’s 2024-25 summer season campaign on Wednesday that work on repairing wastewater treatment plants was nearing completion.

Political stalemate as ANC and DA dispute delays eThekwini Metro mayoral election

ANC mayoral candidate Cyril Xaba has already replaced Mxolisi Kaunda as a councillor

Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)

eThekwini to investigate alleged DA corruption and cover-up

The City Integrity and Investigation Unit will look into a claim of bribes in the R48 million Chatsworth water project

Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)

eThekwini DA corruption claims: Motion for forensic audit to be tabled

Political parties want the city to investigate the involvement of the Democratic Alliance’s Mergan Chetty in allegedly covering up corruption claims

Mzimuni Ngiba

Jailed ANC councillor accused of killing predecessor is finally fired

Mzimuni Ngiba, however, was axed for missing council meetings, not because of the murder charge he is facing

In the running: eThekwini regional chairperson Zandile Gumede is likely to contest a position in her province’s top five. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)

Gumede sets her sights on ANC KwaZulu-Natal treasurer job

With the eThekwini in the rearview mirror, the former mayor is said to be gunning for a position in the provincial top five

Zandile Gumede,  the corruption-accused former mayor was not allowed to attend the elective meeting.  (Gallo Images/The Times/Jackie Clausen)

Zandile Gumede nominated in absentia as ANC eThekwini regional chairperson

But the corruption-accused former mayor was not allowed to attend the elective meeting

While the ANC leadership is hopeful of reaching an agreement on credentials when the conference resumes on Sunday morning, some delegates fear a repeat of the collapse of the conference on several occasions by supporters of former mayor Zandile Gumede in 2015.. (Rajesh Jantilal)

ANC’s key eThekwini conference deadlocks over which delegates can vote

ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Sihle Zikalala lays down the law, warning factions to stop destroying the party.

Thabani Nyawose, the speaker of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality, is contesting the ANC regional chairperson position for the first time.
 (David Harrison/M&G)

Zandile Gumede vs Thabani Nyawose: Who will lead eThekwini?

The ANC eThekwini chairperson is running against the speaker of eThekwini metropolitan municipality

Former eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)

Step-aside rule could ruin Zandile Gumede’s plans for top ANC job

A victory for Durban’s former mayor does not necessarily mean she’ll be able to take office

In an interview with the Mail & Guardian, Thabani Nyawose said he was “very uncomfortable [with] the manner in which people in the media always refer to me as a Ramaphosa ally”.  (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)

eThekwini speaker Nyawose wants to be seen as a leader in his own right, not a Ramaphosa man

Nyawose believes the ANC eThekwini region can lead the party’s renewal process at the national elective conference in December

Despite a high court ruling removing unlawfully-elected ANC mayor Dada Morero, the ANC still managed to score itself five new Johannesburg council chairperson positions on Thursday as it cemented its new-found strength in the city. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

More ANC murders ahead of party’s eThekwini regional conference

Umlazi branch secretary Thulani Shusha was gunned down on his way home from an ANC meeting on Saturday

To 2024? ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Conference battles and alliances will determine Ramaphosa’s ANC future

A busy year looms for Ramaphosa and allies as he fights to lead the ANC and the country come 2024.

eThekwini’s ANC mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda. File photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

Jesus saves, but Kaunda scores on the rebound

Three days and three nights of skulduggery keep the Son of Man out of Durban’s mayoral parlour

eThekwini mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda

ANC retains Durban City Hall in narrow win over DA

Flawed process may still end up in court

The ANC can neither hold the centre nor lead society. The recent policy conference was bereft of new ideas. (Paul Botes/M&G)

ANC loses hung metros as opposition ‘coalition’ strikes

Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipalities go to the Democratic Alliance, with eThekwini set to follow.

D-day for councils as opposition coalitions talks falter

South Africa’s 66 hung municipalities have to constitute councils or face a rerun of elections

The ruling party is scheduled to start interviewing prospective metro mayors this weekend with some usual suspects on the list. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Here are the ANC’s picks for metro mayors

The ruling party is scheduled to start interviewing prospective metro mayors this weekend with some usual suspects on the list

Making an X: Ekurhuleni residents vote for their chosen councillors in a by-election held last year. The local government elections are taking place on 1 November but the road to the is not a smooth one for the ANC. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC hasn’t dodged the election bullet

The governing party faces legal hurdles thrown up by the Democratic Alliance — and its own members

The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Political parties prepare for battle for the local government elections

The DA announces its mayoral candidates for this years local government elections while the ANC and EFF hold their cards close to the chest

The provincial list committee believed the inclusion of the councillors-elect on the list at a time when they were out on bail and still attending court, “could bring the organisation into disrepute”. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC branches protest as corruption charged councillors culled from elections list

Fielding councillors charged with corruption, along with Zandile Gumede, would bring the party into disrepute.