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Floyd Shivambu welcomes  Papa Penny to the Afrika Mayibuye Movement (Mayibuye). (Floyd Shivambu/X)

Penny Penny joins Mayibuye as party gears up for local polls

The Xitsonga musician resigned as an uMkhonto weSizwe Party MP on Friday, citing internal conflict before joining Afrika Mayibuye Movement

Not qualified: Former minister Nobuhle Nkabane appointed  Asanda Luwaca (above), without qualifications. Photos: Supplied

MPs demand action over irregularly appointed National Skills Authority chair

Asanda Luwaca was appointed by disgraced former minister of higher education and training Nobuhle Nkabane without having the right qualifications

Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Maropene Ramokgopa. Photo: Supplied.

Parliament fines nine MPs for late submission of financial interests declarations

Those penalised included the minister in the presidency responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa

AfriForum CEO, Kallie Kriel. Photo: @kalliekriel

AfriForum reiterates calls for US sanctions against Ramaphosa

Kallie Kriel said treason charges were baseless and would only serve AfriForum’s cause

Cake and eating it: The SACP going to the polls doesn’t seem to bother
Minister Blade Nzimande. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Getty Images

The December curse of SA’s political class: Congress time arrives again

If the original uMkhonto weSizwe had been launched on 16 July and not 16 December, we would all be on holiday

Strengthened: Members of the ANC integrity commission, including deputy chair Sophia Williams-de Bruyn (fourth from left) and chair Reverend Frank Chikane (fifth from left), will now have more clout. Photo: ANC/X

ANC strengthens integrity muscle

Members will be vetted and undergo political education to help the party clean its house

Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command leader Sihle Lonzi. (X)

EFF student leader Sihle Lonzi to replace Mkhwebane in parliament

Lonzi, who has been openly critical of Floyd Shivambu, will be parachuted to parliament after reviving the EFF student wing

Former South African and ANC president, Jacob Zuma. (MKP/X)

Zuma’s MK party asks electoral court to order a rerun of May vote

The party claims that had it not been for blatant rigging, it would probably have won the elections

MK Party founder Jabulani Khumalo. (Photo by Gallo Images/Darren Stewart)

Jabulani Khumalo loses legal challenge on MK party leadership

The electoral court found that Khumalo was no longer a member of the party, a day after he filed a high court application to claim the right to be sworn in as an MP This content…

KZN ANC secretary Bheki Mtolo, with provincial spokesperson, Mafika Mndebele. Photo supplied

KZN electoral carnage a ‘message from our people’, says ANC provincial spokesperson

The party has been decimated in what was once one of its strongest provinces

The former president and his personnel are unscathed after an accident on Thursday. (Photo by Mlungisi Louw/Volksblad/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Zuma escapes harm, MK Party coy on car crash details

The former president and his personnel are unscathed after an accident on Thursday

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party wants Jacob Zuma back in office despite the Constitution barring this. (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Will MK Party test the waters in Valentine’s Day by-elections?

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party wants Jacob Zuma back in office despite the Constitution barring this

Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Getty Images

ANC KZN calls on party to ‘hit hard’ at Jacob Zuma

The fightback against Zuma’s defection and launch of the MK party has begun

Andrew Mlangeni heads the integrity committee

1962, China: The day Mao met Mlangeni

In this edited extract from The Backroom Boy, an autobiography of the late Andrew Mokete Mlangeni by Mandla Mathebula, the ANC struggle stalwart meets Mao Tse-Tung while in…

Hettie Classe (left), the mother of Robert Waterwitch, and Wilhelmina Williams (centre), the mother of Coline Williams, at the service for the 30th anniversary of the MK operatives’ deaths. (David Harrison/M&G)

MK families call on NPA for justice

Decades after people who fought for freedom died under suspicious circumstances, relatives want their cases reopened

Undercover with Mandela’s Spies (Jacana)

ANC spy under gunfire

This is an edited extract, telling of one frightening operation by Bradley Steyn who infiltrated right-wing conspiracies

Mtshali was one of the founding members of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. (World Federation of Trade Unions)

Freedom fighter and trade unionist Eric Mtshali dies

This remarkable veteran helped to build the trade union movement even while in exile

File photo: In two recent incidents,  staff in Delft were threatened by extortionists, the Western Cape standing committee on social development heard on Friday. (David Harrison/M&G)

Struggle veterans lead the fight against gangsterism

Anti-apartheid activists are now using their skills to force the state to deliver socioeconomic justice

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

DA slams mayor’s millions

​eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede has come under fire over her almost R100-million programme for mayoral events

Divorce: After her husband’s release from detention

How do we write about Winnie’s life sympathetically?

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s legacy should not be reduced to the uncomplicated heroism that exemplifies today’s personality politics