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DA eThekwini mayoral candidate Haniff Hoosen. (@DeanMcpherson/X)

DA eThekwini mayoral candidate says black politicians are failing their communities

DA eThekwini mayoral candidate Haniff Hoosen has criticised black political leadership, saying it has failed residents amid service delivery crises including chronic water…

James Nxumalo, a senior leader in the South African Communist Party, has been appointed coordinator of the ANC’s provincial task team.

ANC reshuffles KZN leadership, appoints James Nxumalo as provincial coordinator

The reconfiguration comes as the party rebuilds amid the MK Party’s growing dominance

Political mafias and ‘business’ became common, for example municipal contracts between former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and the Delangokubona Business Forum. Photo: File

Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger

In collaboration with crooks, political mafias have emerged in which private fortunes are being built on plundered public wealth

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

Zandile Gumede: Stop arresting people before concluding investigations

The former eThekwini mayor said the corruption case against her, which has been ongoing for seven years, has been financially draining

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

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’

Political mafias and ‘business’ became common, for example municipal contracts between former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and the Delangokubona Business Forum. Photo: File

Attempt to ‘sabotage’ Zandile Gumede corruption case, says state witness

The forensic auditor has told parliament there is a conspiracy to ensure he does not testify in court

A car passes under the bridge at the Connaught Bridge Interchange, in an industrial area near the polluted uMngeni River. What was once a small recycling plant has become a dumping ground.
Photo: Des Erasmus

Durban is dying: Violent strike highlights ongoing decay

Filth, frequent electricity and water outages and grotesque E-Coli levels in rivers have angered businesses and residents

Florence Radzilan

Limpopo’s Florence Radzilani fails to make it to the top of ANC’s provincial candidates list

ANC bigwigs Zweli Mkhize, Bathabile Dlamini and Zandile Gumede have been left off the national and provincial lists

Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki. Photo: Nicolene Olckers/Gallo Images

UPDATED: Mbeki provisionally okays inclusion of corruption-accused in ANC elections list, to meet IEC deadline

Cyril Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe had to leave the national executive committee meeting where only five NEC members supported the adoption of the integrity commission report

NC national executive committee (NEC) members Zweli Mkhize and Bathabile Dlamini have made it into the list of party leaders destined for parliament, despite being implicated in corruption.

Tainted ANC leaders Zweli Mkhize, Gwede Mantashe, Bathabile Dlamini, Zandile Gumede top its parliamentary list

ANC leaders including Pravin Gordhan, Angie Motsekga and Lindiwe Zulu have been left off the list

ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe during a door-to-door campaign in KwaMashu ahead of the party’s manifesto launch on Saturday, 24 February.  Photo: @ANCKZN

Gwede Mantashe defends corruption accused Zandile Gumede’s ANC campaigning

ANC KZN chairperson Siboniso Duma also said the party would support calls for Danny Msiza, who had to step aside over the VBS Mutual Bank heist, to return to the fold

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

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’

Still hanging about: Zandile Gumede with Fikile Mbalula. Photo: X

Corruption accused Zandile Gumede asked to campaign for ANC

Fikile Mbalula denies that bringing the former Durban mayor back into the fold is a way to neutralise the Jacob Zuma-affiliated MK party

The ANC in Gauteng believes it is on track to secure at least 40% of the vote in the 2026 local government elections (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC to intervene in Gauteng, KZN to boost 2024 poll strength

The governing party will deploy more of its top leaders to assist in both provinces

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

Zandile Gumede ‘principal controller’ in eThekwini fraud

The crimes were not overtly complicated, based on what the state said in the first week of trial. But they were brazen.

This stinks: An auditor general’s report on the state of the city of eThekwini’s finances found the city’s leadership unwilling or unable to maintain sewage plants, among other failings. Photo: Deon Raath/Gallo Images

Auditor General red flags eThekwini as city falters

Although the city seems to be stabilising politically, it is heading for an uncertain financial future

Zandile Myeni as the city’s new deputy mayor. Photo: Supplied

ANC in eThekwini appoints NFP and EFF members in key portfolios

Governing party says it agreed on the reconfiguration of the municipal committees to sharpen and strengthen its service delivery machinery

The ANC will back a candidate from one of the small parties in the eThekwini metro council as deputy mayor of Durban at a meeting scheduled for Thursday 26 January to replace Philani Mavundla, who was removed by a no confidence vote in December. (Photo by Gallo images/Darren Stewart)

ANC backs deputy mayor from its smaller coalition partners for eThekwini

Governing party says it cannot be ‘arrogant’ and try to run Durban alone

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

ANC in KZN reconstitutes integrity commission to fight corruption

While it agreed that the party has a duty to root out corruption in government, the province is opposed to the step-aside rule

Chickening out: Behind the alleged KFC poisoning plot was a retired colonel of the United States military.

Mkhwebane poison plot a zinger of a tale

The protector of the suspended public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, was targeted by a retired American colonel