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Asanda Nini is a multi-award-winning Daily Dispatch political reporter. In his more than 20 years in journalism, he has won a number of Vodacom Awards for his coverage of politics, general news, court, council and business and finance-related stories.
Eastern Cape premier and ANC provincial chairperson Oscar Mabuyane is taking his defamation battle against EFF leader Julius Malema to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). The high court in KuGompo City on Thursday granted Mabuyane leave to…
Police watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate is hot on the heels of suspended KuGompo City-based Investigating Directorate Against Corruption chief investigator Dylan Perumal over allegations of assault, torture and…
The remains of 12 ANC MK fighters from the Eastern Cape, lost in exile, are being repatriated from Angola, bringing long-awaited closure and dignity to their families after decades.
The ANC national leadership has offered a lifeline to senior provincial politicians whose names were left off the final PR candidate lists for the upcoming municipal elections, assuring that they may be added to council PR lists after the…
UDM president Bantu Holomisa has called on the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) to investigate allegations that ANC activists in Buffalo City Metro are using municipal employment opportunities under the EPWP to buy votes.
Five frontrunners have emerged from 43 applicants vying to become the next vice-chancellor of the University of Fort Hare.
Two ANC members from the Eastern Cape failed in their high court attempt to have the party's provincial councillor candidate list declared unlawful ahead of the November 4 local elections.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has refused to retract or apologise for statements allegedly blaming Eastern Cape ANC provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi for problems with the province’s councillor candidate list submission to…
The father of slain boxing champion Zolani Tete has publicly forgiven the four men accused of his son’s murder, though he still wants justice to be served as the accused consider appealing the decision to deny their bail.
Twenty-nine political parties and five independent candidates will contest the November 4 local government elections in the Buffalo City Metro, vying for representation in the 100-seat council.
Two of the men accused of the murder of boxing champion Zolani Tete were denied bail by the Mdantsane magistrate's court, citing a lack of exceptional circumstances.
Nkosi Mandla Zwelivelile Mandela, considered the ANC's top choice for mayor of King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality, is unable to run in the upcoming municipal elections as his name is absent from the official candidate lists released by…
The UDM has turned to the public for financial assistance to fund its local government elections campaign.
The anticipated bail hearing judgment of the two acussed in the murder of renowned boxer Zolani Tete, was on Monday postponed for Friday.
Bail judgment is expected for Uzuzole Goqwana and Sinebhongo Qase, two of the four men accused in the murder of former world boxing champion Zolani Tete.
