The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has finally acted and fired the allegedly “underperforming” Mayor of Amajuba District Municipality, which is anchored in Newcastle in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Prince Ndabuko Zulu was shown the door on Thursday, 18 December 2024 after he met with the party’s national executive committee (NEC). The prince took over the position in December 2022 after the IFP fired the former mayor, Vuselwa Bam, who later defected and joined Team Sugar South Africa. “The IFP NEC today met…

The provincial secretary of the EFF in KwaZulu-Natal has suspended his longtime personal assistant for allegedly attending the MK Party’s 1st anniversary rally in Durban on Sunday. Nkululeko Ngubane was in Nasrec attending the EFF’s National People’s Assembly, an elective conference, in Johannesburg when Siphamandla Ngcobo allegedly joined the celebrations of President Jacob Zuma’s party at the Moses Mabhida stadium. In a December 18 suspension letter sent to Ngcobo and seen by African Times, Ngubane accused his personal assistant of…

The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in KwaZulu-Natal has fired a senior Zulu royal prince for alleged absenteeism. Prince Mbonisi Zulu was fired through a letter dated 9 December 2024.  He worked as a researcher in the anthropology division tasked with resolving chieftaincy disputes in the province.  “It has been noted that you have failed to report for duty as from the 1st of October 2024 to date. You failed to present yourself for compulsory headcount during…

The Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is contesting another litmus test by-election in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday torn apart by two provincial factions. This is after yesterday the Electoral Court upheld the registration of Sthabiso Nkabinde as the party’s candidate for ward 2 by-election in Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg) in the province’s Midlands where the party performed well during the May 29 provincial and national elections. The troubles started when two posters of candidates emerged and were circulated to the public for support. One…

The KwaZulu-Natal teacher who shocked the country when he allegedly killed his wife-to-be and recorded a live social media video boasting about the tragic incident has a history of “unusual behaviour”, his colleagues have revealed. Sbusiso Lawrence Nkaba, a teacher at Ziphozethu Primary School in KwaDukuza just outside Durban, posted the body of his bruised and bloodied girlfriend on Facebook on Tuesday night, December 17, before taking his own life.  In the video, with blood stains all over his face,…

The leader of the MK Party, former President Jacob Zuma, has narrated how colonialists used coup d’etat and rebels to claw back African countries that got independence and could not be controlled. Zuma says the colonialists funded rebels to stage a coup d’etat and install governments that listened to them and implemented their agenda.  South Africa’s former president spoke in Durban on Monday night during a gala dinner hosted by the MK Party to celebrate its first anniversary. Since 1960,…

The sole but critical councillor of the ABC (Abantu Batho Congress) in the Endumeni (Dundee) local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has scored a temporary victory against his expulsion from the party and as a councillor. The Pietermaritzburg High Court today ruled that Mbulelo Phakathi cannot be expelled from the party and as a councillor in eNdumeni until the matter has been fully heard. Phakathi’s seat in Endumeni is crucial to the ANC, which still harbours ambitions of overthrowing the IFP through…

The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, has warned that violence is inevitable in South Africa to change the status quo because those hoarding the country’s wealth are seemingly resisting and happily excluding black people from the mainstream economy.  Malema says in such scenarios where those who accumulated their wealth through colonial exploitation do not change, this route cannot be avoided. He repeated this warning on Friday, December 13, while giving a lengthy political report to the Red Berets’ 3rd…

The troubled Nongoma Local Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal was plunged into a security crisis on Thursday when bodyguards of politicians and senior officials stormed council offices to demand their November salaries. The gun-wielding bodyguards demanded answers from Mayor Clifford Ndabandaba after going unpaid for almost two weeks from their normal pay day. They claimed that when they enquired from their private company why they have not been paid, they were told that it is because the municipality has not paid…

The chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in KwaZulu-Natal, Thami Ntuli, has downplayed the reported tensions between the MEC for CoGTA, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi and the ANC in the government of provincial unity (GPU) and in the province. Ntuli, who is also the premier in the GPU, says it was always expected that there would be differences since they come from different political parties. The provincial IFP leader was responding to a question from the African Times during a…