Politics
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson and Deputy Sihle Zikalala Wrestle Over Expropriation Act
The expropriation bill, which President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law on Thursday, has pitted the…
MK Party Bolsters Mpumalanga Leadership, Adds Seven Leaders To Work With Busisiwe Mkhwebane
The Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party has finally filled the several vacant leadership positions in the…
Mbalula Says Travelling to Robben Island by a Privately-Owned Yacht is Neither a Gift nor Evidence of Corruption
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has defended his decision to use a private yacht belonging to…
Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi Resigns As EFF MP, Party Says It Was “Voluntary”
After months of speculation about his future, Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has finally resigned as the…
Malema Warns Violence Is Inevitable In South Africa, Takes on Zuma and MK Party
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…
IFP Downplays Tensions Between KZN CoGTA MEC Rev Thulasizwe Buthelezi and ANC GPU Partners
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…
Controversial North West MEC Denies Threatening to Castrate Ward Councillor and Seeks Court Interdict For Defamation
North West ANC Deputy Secretary and Education MEC Viola Motsumi has applied for an interdict against ward councillor Obakeng Kgonare and businessman Godfrey Moleko Mooketsi, alleging they defamed and threatened her political career. In court papers filed before the Mahikeng High Court last week, Motsumi denies threatening to castrate Kgonare and resurrect his mother, saying he fabricated stories about her after she turned down his demands for government tenders. She has applied for a declaratory order stating that Kgonare and…
Dannhauser Local Municipality Speaker Ousted As Mayor Faces Cost Order Prospect Amid Raging Political Turmoil
The raging political turmoil in the Dannahauser Local Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal took another turn on Wednesday when Speaker Sibusiso Myaka was ousted through a vote of no confidence. This was after his failed court bid to stop the sitting that had to be convened by a representative of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Madoda Khathide. Myaka is a member of the Community Freedom Party (CFP), which was in an alliance with the ANC and the…
MK Party Members Told To Choose One Position
The new national organiser of the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party has begun cracking the whip on members who are holding several positions. Joe Ndhlela has written to all party members and told them to relinquish some of the positions and stick to one. In a letter dated 07 December 2024, Ndhlela reminded members that the founder and President of the party, Jacob Zuma has made it clear that for accountability purposes, those in parliament or in government, cannot hold positions…
Thabazimbi’s Future Uncertain After By-Elections Produce Another Hung Municipality
The future of the Thabazimbi Local Municipality in Limpopo looks uncertain again after the by-elections failed to produce an outright winner. Even though the African National Congress (ANC) won the majority of the votes in the December 4 by-elections, it will need the help of the Economic Freedom Fighters or Democratic Alliance (DA) to govern the hung and chaotic council until the 2026 Local Government Elections. This is because the by-elections in the iron mining town produced no outright victory,…
KwaZulu-Natal CoGTA MEC Intervenes To Bring Order To The Chaotic Dannhauser Municipality
The MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in KwaZulu-Natal has finally intervened to stop the ongoing instability at Dannhauser, a local municipality in the north of the province run by a coalition of the ANC, EFF and the Community Freedom Party. Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi has since deployed Madoda Khathide, the deputy director general for the local government to go to the municipality and convene a special council sitting that will look into the vote of no confidence against…
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Halts Relocation Of CoGTA’s Traditional Offices To Ulundi
The MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in KwaZulu-Natal, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi, has been temporarily stopped in his spirited bid to relocate the department’s traditional affairs division to Ulundi. The opening was billed for Thursday, 5 December 2024, but it was halted after Premier Thami Ntuli intervened. Ntuli said the halting would be until the government of provincial unity involving the IFP, ANC, DA and the National Freedom Party (NFP) is satisfied that all legal processes were followed. …
MK Provincial Leader Wants Former EFF Members Barred From Getting Top Positions
Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party’s Mpumalanga leader wants the party to stop giving top positions to former EFF members who have just joined the party, led by former president Jacob Zuma. Mary Phadi, the MK Party’s convener in the province and a member of the provincial legislature in Mbombela, said this shortly after her court victory yesterday. That was after Phadi won a legal victory at the Mpumalanga High Court which reinstated her as the convener of the party in the…
AMCU’s Joseph Mathunjwa Lays Into Jacob Zuma And His MK Party
The president of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), Joseph Mathunjwa has lambasted former president Jacob Zuma, saying he should have done the things he is now promising the people while he was in power for nine years between 2009 and 2018. Mathunjwa said this on Friday while campaigning for the AMCU funded Labour Party in Thabazimbi, Limpopo, ahead of Wednesday’s by-elections. “He (Zuma) reduced this country into a squalor, to be a dustbin. Then you turn around…