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Mawande AmaShabalala is a political journalist and storyteller at the Sunday Times.

Randall Williams's sudden resignation has caused headaches for the council. File photo.

Tshwane mayor Randall William’s resignation wreaks havoc, speaker postpones urgent council meetings

The resignation of Tshwane mayor Randall Williams has plunged the council into chaos after two meetings billed for Wednesday were abandoned at the last minute.

Luthuli House boss Fikile Mbalula decries failures in local government

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes that local government in the country is on its knees due to coalition governments.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula Mbalula visited Hammanskraal in Gauteng amid the rising death toll due to the cholera outbreak. File photo.
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Time over for 'sleeping, old people': Mbalula demands youthful cabinet

Newly elected ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes a cabinet reshuffle is imminent after the party's national elective conference.

Cabinet reshuffle imminent after more than a dozen ministers, deputies fail to make NEC cut

A cabinet reshuffle by president Cyril Ramaphosa is imminent after well more than a dozen ministers and deputy ministers were not voted into the governing party's decision-making body between conferences - the national executive committee…

Cyril Ramaphosa will take on Zweli Mkhize for the position of ANC president.

Mkhize returns to NEC, Gordhan out in the cold

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan is among the high-profile ANC leaders who failed to make it into the party's powerful structure, the national executive committee.

ANC gives greenlight to plans to scrap public enterprises department

Delegates at the ANC national conference have endorsed plans to do away with the department of public enterprises in favour of placing SOEs in line departments.

ANC KZN chair reads the riot act to disruptive delegates from his province

ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson Sboniso Duma laid down the law to delegates from the province attending the party's national conference in Johannesburg, telling them to to cease disrupting the conference if they do not want to…

Mkhize has his fingers crossed ahead of the party's elective conference.
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PODCAST | Zweli Mkhize on ANC presidency, Digital Vibes and Cyril Ramaphosa

Mkhize says after engagements with ANC branches, all indications are that he has “huge support”.

Carl Niehaus briefing the media outside former president Jacob Zuma's house in Nkandla last year. He has been expelled from the ANC for comments he made at this briefing which were found to have brought the ANC into disrepute. File photo.

Carl Niehaus expelled from ANC for Zuma arrest antics

The ANC national disciplinary committee has expelled former ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus after a disciplinary hearing where he "failed to show remorse".

President Cyril Ramaphosa leaving the NEC meeting in Nasrec, Johannesburg.

High drama at ANC NEC meeting discussing Ramaphosa’s fate

The Nasrec conference centre south of Johannesburg was a hive of activity on Monday as the party’s highest decision-making body between conferences met.

Zweli Mkhize and Nomvula Mokonyane at the Bertha Gxowa memorial lecture in Katlehong.

Nomvula Mokonyane fingers Eskom as ANC's 'main opposition', says national conference must end this

The deputy secretary-general hopeful says South Africa should continue with coal-fired power stations instead of 'unreliable' renewable energy.

EFF and ANC KwaZulu-Natal believe former president Jacob Zuma should be left alone to play with his grandchildren despite an SCA judgement stating that his medical parole release was illegal. File photo.
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Sending Zuma back to jail serves no rehabilitation purpose: EFF

The DA is, however, adamant that the former president is not above the law and should go back to prison

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane shares a light moment with President Cyril Ramaphosa. Mabuyane is said to be one of the provincial leaders who convinced Ramaphosa to make a U-turn on his planned resignation.

KZN PEC endorsing Phumulo Masualle is aimed at dividing Eastern Cape, says provincial chair Oscar Mabuyane

ANC Eastern Cape provincial chairperson and deputy president hopeful Oscar Mabuyane believes the move by the provincial executive committee of KwaZulu-Natal to endorse his provincial colleague Phumulo Masualle before engaging with them…

Speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. File photo.

Phala Phala panel report deadline extended

National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has extended the deadline by which the independent panel of experts investigating the Phala Phala saga has to submit its report from Thursday to November 30.

Cooperative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has gazetted the regulations for the national state of disaster pertaining to the energy crisis. File photo.

ANC Women’s League abandons Dlamini-Zuma for Ramaphosa

Thandi Modise will be in the ballot to contest for deputy president at the ANC December national conference