In what appears to be a push back ahead of Monday’s “compulsory” meeting with the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC), the provincial secretary of the party in KwaZulu-Natal has said top leaders must also account for the May 29 electoral drubbing. Bheki Mtolo says it is fair that all party members, from branches to the national leadership, account for the ANC’s electoral decline, which saw the governing party losing its outright majority for the first time since 1994.  He was…

The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) has summoned the party’s KwaZulu-Natal leadership to a “compulsory” meeting in Boksburg, Gauteng, fuelling growing speculations that the provincial executive committee (PEC) will be dissolved. In the letter of summon signed by Fikile Mbalula, the ANC’s Secretary-General, all PEC members are expected to attend the meeting on Saturday, November 31, without fail. However, the letter dated 26 November 2024 (Tuesday) does not state the agenda of the meeting. “It is compulsory that all PEC…

The ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) has suspended its former president, Jacob Zuma, amid a fallout over his decision to campaign for the newly formed political party, Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK). The MK has been steadily gaining popularity since its launch on December 16, 2023, where Zuma said he would not campaign or vote for “the ANC of [President Cyril] Ramaphosa”. The NEC announced its decision after its three-day ordinary meeting in Boksburg, Gauteng, over the weekend — a move which…

In a doomed spell for youth appeal, South African politician Fikile Mbalula’s attempt to pay tribute to the late US rapper Tupac Shakur on X, formerly Twitter, was met with widespread criticism as he attempted to appease the younger voters. On Thursday morning, Mbalula, secretary-general of the ANC, sought to appease the younger generation but got Shakur’s date of death wrong, stating he died 22 years ago on September 14 when he actually died 27 years ago, a day earlier.…

The sting of unemployment was the central theme amongst those who attended the ANC’s 2019 Provincial Manifesto Review in Limpopo. Young people and older citizens who flocked to the Giyani Stadium on Saturday decried the dire economic state of many households across the Giyani Local Municipality and the country.  African Times spoke to groups of young people leaving the stadium before the party’s secretary general, Fikile Mbalula, took to the stage. “We have been waiting since 9 in the morning,…

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has been accused of using the Lily Mine disaster in Mpumalanga to advance the political goals of the governing party. The families of Solomon Nyirenda, Yvonne Mnisi, and Pretty Nkambule told African Times that Mbalula promised that the ANC would urgently organise the retrieval of the three miners’ shipping container, which has held them underground for the past seven years. Nyirenda, Mnisi, and Nkambule were part of a group of 90 miners trapped at the mine…

The contractor who abandoned projects in North West after pocketing R25 million pleaded poverty while driving to meetings and construction sites in new luxury cars, sources said. According to government officials, civil engineers and business associates, businessman Oberon Sungulani Matsuvuki rocked up for meetings with officials and civil engineers in expensive cars but continued to claim he had no money to complete projects.  This included a dark blue Lamborghini. African Times has been reliably informed that Matsuvuki’s company, Ndhuna Civil…