MK Party Treasurer General Resigns With Immediate Effect Two Months into the Job

Less than two months into the top job, Dr Thanti Mthanti has resigned as the Treasurer General of the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party with immediate effect.

The party’s leader, former President Jacob Zuma accepted Dr Mthanthi’s departure, according to a statement released by the ANC splinter party on Friday (January 17). 

Mthanti, an academic and senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town, was appointed to the position in December last year, replacing Menzi Magubane. 

The MKP confirmed Dr Mthanthi’sREAD MORE

In 2024, foreign media partners of the TV BRICS International Media Network increased the number of publications on the activities of the BRICS member states and Russia’s role in the association by several times compared to the previous year. Today, more than 80 media outlets from 25 countries cooperate with TV BRICS on a regular basis. 11 countries have joined the media network in 2024: UAE, Iran, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Chile, Colombia, Nigeria, Tunisia, Serbia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan. Among the newREAD MORE

Ithala SOC Limited (Ithala Bank), the historic financial institution founded by the KwaZulu homeland government to fund black entrepreneurs during the apartheid era, has slammed the Prudential Authority (PA) ‘s application to have it under provisional liquidation. 

The PA is a division of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) that oversees the operations and compliance matters of banks and insurance companies in the country.

In a statement on Thursday (January 16), the PA said its application in the Pietermaritzburg HighREAD MORE

King Misuzulu KaZwelithini has ended his almost two months of seclusion period to come and address Zulu regiments, thanking them for upholding the sacred ceremony of Ukweshwama (the first fruit).

The ceremony is also used as an annual traditional Zulu prayer for a good year ahead. 

It was held at the newly built Mshobeni palace in Nongoma (across the Nkunzana river from KwaKhangela palace, named after one of the old palaces of the legendary King Shaka, the founder of theREAD MORE

Russia’s plans on the international track in the new year, strengthening partnership with BRICS and SCO, and prospects for developing cooperation with Latin America. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke about this and much more at the annual press conference. The moderator was Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Russian Foreign Minister was asked questions by journalists from a number of TV BRICS partner media outlets from China, Iran, Vietnam, and Venezuela.

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The Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party has finally filled the several vacant leadership positions in the Mpumalanga province, bringing in seven provincial heavyweights to work with Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the convener.

The party announced the bolstering of the province’s leadership on Thursday (January 16), saying the decision has been sanctioned by the party’s leader, former President Jacob Zuma, based on its constitution.

“The MK Party has expressed its full confidence in all the new appointees. We wish the Mpumalanga Detachment wellREAD MORE

It’s that time of the year again when we find ourselves reflecting on the year that was and the year ahead. On the African continent, many countries are still recovering from the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and are doing so amid a fraught geopolitical environment. These tensions have, to some extent, created hurdles in the path of Africa’s recovery. 

The African Development Bank has attributed the economic slowdown on the continent to astronomical inflation caused by soaring food andREAD MORE

Abu Dhabi City Municipality has unveiled details of the Estidama Pearl Rating System, which assesses the sustainability of buildings on a scale of one to five pearls. Under the new requirements, public projects must achieve a minimum of two pearls, while private projects must achieve one. Meeting these standards is a prerequisite for building permits. This is reported by Emirates News Agency (WAM), a partner of TV BRICS.

According to the municipality’s SustainableREAD MORE

Chinese internet users on a popular social networking platform have noticed a sudden influx of foreign newcomers who claim to have migrated from TikTok due to concerns about a potential ban by the U.S. government within the week.

On Xiaohongshu, a Chinese platform with combined features of Instagram and Pinterest, hashtags such as #TikTokRefugee have garnered hundreds of thousands of posts from accounts mostly registered in the United States.

The surge in activity has propelled Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNoteREAD MORE

Two senior KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) officials who were suspended in September last year for alleged financial misconduct that occurred before the May 2024 general elections have resigned. 

Yali Joyi, the former chief financial officer (CFO), resigned on January 6, and Ntombizethu Dlamini, the director for local economic development (LED) project support, followed in her footsteps a few days later.
 
The duo were among the development’s top five senior officials. 

In her letter ofREAD MORE