“This is not about Patrice waking up one morning and wanting to be president,” the lobbyist said. “It is about stabilising the centre of power before the ANC implodes”

The ANC secretary-general said the organisation might need to reconsider the policy of allowing dual membership of both parties

The party’s secretary general admitted there were some in the national executive committee who wanted to see the president gone

The fallout is the latest threat to the fragile government of national unity that has frequently come to the brink of collapse over policy clashes between its two largest parties

The ANC leader said it also hurts him to see that some municipalities run by the party were ‘being run backwards’

An NEC source said the party was not worried about MK party sleeper agents in their ranks

Mathabatha said he was concerned by what he called ‘unethical and un-ANC tendencies’ by party members in regard to the elective conferences of the Vhembe and Waterberg regions

Dada Morero has said he will stand for a second term as the Greater Joburg chair

Internal polls forecast at least 40% of votes in the local government elections, while warnings against factionalism abound

The justice minister has also rejected claims that she is part of a plot to stop party deputy president Paul Matsatile from standing in the ANC’s 2027 elective conference

Claims have been made that the commission is being used to sideline political rivals by reviving allegations linked to the VBS Mutual Bank scandal

The ANC secretary general said the ANC would not water it down to ‘Kiss the Boer’, nor would it prescribe to other parties what they must sing

Sources say the ANC’s latest intervention in the province is aimed at replacing the secretary general’s opponents with loyalists

Reconfiguration or dissolution? Moves against Gauteng and KZN leaders leaves party in disarray

The party wants people deployed in government to have tertiary qualifications

The party is expected to discuss the matter at its upcoming national executive committee meeting, set for next week

The ANC has put off the decision on how it will intervene in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal until next month

Sources said the party’s national executive committee is set to finalise the possible dissolution of the two provincial bodies at its next meeting in two weeks

Members will be vetted and undergo political education to help the party clean its house

Changes to the integrity commission hope to reaffirm it as the custodian of the ANC’s values, ethics and organisational discipline