ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is adamant that his recent sex scandal will not deter him from contesting the governing party’s top position. The ANC presidential hopeful was addressing ANC branches in Randfontein on the West Rand, which has made it clear that they wanted Ramaphosa to lead the party[…]
Former South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said he expects to be charged over an investigative unit set up when he ran the revenue service as a battle rages in the African National Congress to choose a successor to President Jacob Zuma as party leader in December. Gordhan, who was[…]
Death threats and court challenges mark an intensifying battle for control of the African National Congress (ANC) as factions fight it out in provinces before the party elects a new leader to replace Jacob Zuma. In the region with the most ANC members, KwaZulu-Natal, the high court is expected to[…]
The ANC has taken aim at MP and chairperson of its disciplinary committee Derek Hanekom. Hanekom, who was tourism minister before losing his position in the Cabinet reshuffle in March, did not want to comment on a letter written to him by the ANC. In the letter, Hanekom was given[…]
Dissident ANC MP Dr Makhosi Khoza paid the price for her outspoken criticism of President Jacob Zuma when she was fired as the chairperson of the portfolio committee on public service and administration on Thursday. This after she chaired a meeting where the committee had decided to summon Minister of[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) has agreed that the private funding of political parties should be made public. The party says a lack of transparency fuels perceptions of undue influence and corruption regarding the funding. ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize was making a presentation before the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on[…]
The ANC says it will discipline at least three MPs who have publicly admitted that they voted in support of the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma. The party says its National Working Committee decided at a meeting on Monday that the MPs must face a disciplinary inquiry.[…]
Last week, local research house, Ratepop, issued a media release claiming to have conducted the country’s “first social media technology-driven political sentiment” survey. In it, a number of claims are made about support for the governing African National Congress (ANC) by party faithfuls. Some of the results include: that 59.2%[…]
Shaheed Omar, the nephew of late struggle stalwart, Dullah Omar, and the son of Dr Omar of Mabel Road was shot in an apparent attempted hijacking early Thursday evening. Sadly he passed away on the scene. The incident occurred on the corner of Jan Smuts Drive and Govan Mbeki Road.[…]
ANC heavyweights are threatening to hunt those who voted against President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday as the DA pushes for an early election. Meanwhile, The Times’s sister publication, the Sowetan, has established that ANC MPs in a critical caucus meeting before Tuesday’s no-confidence vote were told that their jobs could[…]
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