Fifteen municipal ward by-elections will take place across six provinces on Wednesday, the Electoral Commission of South Africa has said. These are the first by-elections since the August 3 local government elections. Sixty-six candidates representing 16 political parties and two independent candidates are contesting. Nine of the contested wards are[…]
Former National Youth Commission chair Nobulumko Nkondlo is expected to be sworn-in as a member of the Western Cape legislature on Wednesday. This follows the resignation of embattled ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman as a member of the provincial legislature but not as the leader of the ANC in the[…]
Embattled African National Congress Western Cape leader Marius Fransman has launched a scathing attack on the party’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe, accusing him of wanting to get rid of him. In a letter penned to the branch leadership, dated November 6, Fransman alleged that he had been barred from speaking[…]
Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini has warned the ANC to stop abusing the labour federation’s loyalty or risk the failure of both institutions. “We need to take each other seriously. If we don’t, we create a situation where we all shall fall, and I don’t think any of us want that,”[…]
The ANC’s top leadership moved to defuse tensions in the party’s parliamentary caucus this week, after ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu’s call for the national executive committee (NEC) to step down caused disquiet in some quarters. Four ANC sources in Parliament independently told City Press that the party’s secretary-general, Gwede[…]
With the centre failing to hold in the governing party, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said he was fully focused on unseating the ANC in 2019, even if it meant it would happen through a national coalition. “The ANC thought that it would govern until Jesus came back and now they[…]
Former ANC president Oliver Reginald Tambo also faced problems in the ANC, including lobbying to get rid of him, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. Tambo was never obsessed with himself or his position, was humble and greeted everyone by name, Zuma said a wreath-laying ceremony in honour of Tambo[…]
President Jacob Zuma will be leading a wreath laying ceremony in memory of the late ANC President, Oliver Reginald Tambo, and his wife, Dr Adelaide Tambo on Thursday. 2016’s ceremony is themed “Celebrating the life, times and legacy of OR Tambo, 99 years and counting towards the centenary”. This year’s[…]
Newly appointed African National Congress (ANC) Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu over the weakened raised eyebrows when he called on the ANC executive leadership to step down. Mthembu reportedly told the City Press newspaper that the governing party’s current leadership is worse than its Apartheid predecessors. He further slammed the use[…]
President Jacob Zuma is “dangerous for our fragile democracy,” Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has said. Speaking at a public meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay ahead of by-elections in the area, Maimane again took potshots at the president, accusing him of corruption and state capture. “This community deserves better and[…]
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