Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) chairperson in KwaZulu-Natal, Mongezi Thwala and four other party members are spending the night behind bars after they appeared in court in connection with last week’s violent attacks and assault at the offices of the City of Umhlathuze in Richards Bay. Thwala and his fellow comrades surrendered themselves to the police accompanied by their lawyer after the city pressed charges against them with the police. They appeared in court on Monday (January 27) on charges of…

Patriotic Alliance (PA) Deputy President Kenny Kunene says he is unfazed by the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) threats to report him to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) over his disparaging comments about illegal miners, also known as Zama Zamas. Dismissing EFF President Julius Malema as a “lover of illegal foreigners” Kunene says his party, known for its anti-immigration policy, will always put South Africans ahead of foreign nationals who are in the country without valid documents. Kunene, a…

The recently elected African National Congress (ANC) councillor for Ward 30 in the Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality, Sekhukhune, Limpopo, has been arrested on charges of extortion and the illegal closure of a local mine. Yalda Matlabane Tobias Malope, who secured his position during the by-election held on December 11, 2024, was taken into custody by the police on January 9, 2025. The South African Police Service (SAPS) reported that on January 9, 2025, at approximately 07:00, Roossenekal Police apprehended eight…

After months of speculation about his future, Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has finally resigned as the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) Member of Parliament (MP). In a statement, the EFF said the move was “voluntary” and his departure was processed together with that of another Fighter, Yazini Tetyana. “These voluntary requests to be released from the deployment, which were sent to the Secretary-General of the EFF consecutively and within days of each other, expressed gratitude to the EFF for thr opportunity to…

Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu claims he’s the party’s sole founder, and that current leader Julius Malema and others joined later. He says he conceptualised the EFF, gave it a name and party colours, and decided where its Johannesburg headquarters would be. Shivambu, who left the EFF in August 2023 amid a public fallout with Malema, was speaking at a Christmas gathering hosted by his new party, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MKP), at his home village of…

The political intrigue around the future of Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deepened on Thursday when he suddenly removed the Member of Parliament (MP) label from his X (Twitter) bio. This has raised speculation that the former EFF national spokesperson and Central Command Team (CCT) member may be planning a future outside the Red Berets after 11 years as a member. Ndlozi, whose verified X account has 1.8 million followers, did not discuss his decision to…

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…

After failing to defend a claim for outstanding payments, the Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison has paid a service provider more than R90 million, including interests. Makanyoga General, a security company previously contracted by the department to render services at government sites, obtained a default judgement in 2023 after taking the government to court over a R75 million payment dispute. This is according to the department’s reply to a parliamentary question by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Mpumalanga…

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 controversial and self-proclaimed president of Amabhinca (Zulu traditionalists), Ngizwe Mchunu, used a platform in Port Shepstone in southern KwaZulu-Natal to take a jab at his “enemies”, including the EFF. Mchunu was in the coastal town to receive an early Christmas gift in the form of a car from the Chinese car dealership, JAC Motors. The company said it was thanking Mchunu for the “business” he generated for it when he was its ambassador until December 2023. The former radio…