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Challenging the suspension: Mbali Shinga, the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for social development. Photo: KwaZulu-Natal Province

Mbali Shinga vows to stay on as KZN MEC despite National Freedom Party disciplinary process

The NFP’s disciplinary action against Shinga could have major implications for the balance of power in the provincial government

Hallowed: Cape Town City Hall before proceeding. Photo: GCIS

‘A state of nothingness address’

Even before his speech on Thursday, many opposition parties had already given the president a ‘fail’

Former Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe (Oupa Nkosi)

Zuma reshuffles MK leadership, Brian Molefe replaces Mpiyakhe Limba as treasurer general

Molefe is currently out on R50 000 bail on charges of fraud, corruption and contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act and the Companies Act linked to his tenure at Transnet

New national director of public prosecutions Andy Mothibi. (Paul Botes)

Opposition questions Mothibi appointment as NPA head, expressing concerns over process and independence

The uMkhonto weSizwe party called on the incoming national director of public prosecutions to immediately act against Hangwani Maumela when he steps into office

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa warns that SACP decision to run solo on elections could risk ANC votes

At a Joe Slovo commemoration, Ramaphosa warned the communist party that going it alone would be a historic mistake and undermine the broader liberation alliance

Going nowhere: President Cyril Ramaphosa had once again weathered an internal push to unseat him before
the end of his term in 2027. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

SA 2025: Scenic route from G20 to NGC

This was the year that was — South Africa’s chequered 2025, a year that ends not with resolution, but with reckoning

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

Motion against KZN premier Thami Ntuli fails in vote marred by violence

A scuffle broke out when MK party members rejected the results, prompting the proceedings to be adjourned

Presenting the organisational report during the party’s 16th regional conference on Thursday, outgoing secretary Sasabone Manganye warned that the decline of the ANC in the Greater Johannesburg region was not just a temporary setback but a deep, structural, and multidimensional crisis. (Facebook)

ANC admits to feeling heat from MK, EFF, ActionSA, PA and DA

The party says its decline has been worsened by communication failures, while opponents dominate social media with sharp messaging and emotional appeal

Lady linchpin: Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is at the heart of the furore over SA men dispatched to Russia.
Photo: MK Party

Men trapped in Ukraine war promised MKP jobs

MK party says it knows nothing about the ill-fated Russian trip involving 17 South Africans

Missing: Members of the Jacob Zuma’s MKP are fighting over alleged looting of funds in the party. Photo: GCIS

Zuma, MKP and the ‘looted’ R70m

The MPs have written to Zuma and Yengeni to demand a forensic investigation of the missing millions

New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s recent primary victory provides South Africa’s progressives with a stark, universal lesson: sometimes, facing a flawed political party head-on rather than giving up is the only way to change it. (@ZohranKMamdani/X)

What South Africa’s progressives can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City

The ANC is no longer, by default, a people’s movement, much like the Democratic Party in the United States. It is not, however, irredeemable

True blue: The Democratic Alliance wants to table a bill in parliament ending broad-based black economic empowerment policy. Photo: Supplied

ANC, DA in ugly war over ‘nonsense’ BEE bill

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

Afrika Mayibuye Movement leader Floyd Shivambu Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Floyd Shivambu fires deputy Nolubabalo Mcinga over unsanctioned meeting with Jacob Zuma

Shivambu’s Afrika Mayibuye Movement also accused Mcinga of spreading lies about the party’s leadership

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

KwaZulu-Natal coalition in jeopardy as MK party motion tests relations between ANC and IFP

Jacob Zuma’s party has submitted a motion of no confidence against premier Thamsanqa Ntuli of the Inkatha Freedom Party

The Madlanga commission heard further testimony of police corruption on Monday from an anonymous police investigator who alleged that senior Gauteng officials were linked to drug cartels and criminal syndicates implicated in contract killings.
 Photo: Paul Botes

Political killings task team had achieved its purpose, says Sibiya

The deputy national commissioner defended the disbandment of the team, saying its budget should support broader crime-fighting efforts

Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya. (X)

Shadrack Sibiya raises conflict of interest concerns over police corruption probe committee members

The deputy national police commissioner argued that two members of parliament should recuse themselves because they are complainants in criminal cases against him

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (@myANC/X)

DA governs the best-run municipalities, Ramaphosa tells ANC councillors

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

Afrika Mayibuye Movement leader Floyd Shivambu Photo: Lunga Mzangwe

Floyd Shivambu announces Afrika Mayibuye Movement party, with himself as president

This follows months of consultations with communities on whether there was a need to form another political party in South Africa

Mixed blessing: Archbishop Dan Mathe (left) of St John’s Apostolic Faith Mission, and Bishop Junior Moloi (right) pray for Jacob Zuma. Photo: GCIS

Zuma preaches politics as liturgy

Zuma preaches politics as liturgy, ballot as sacrament and MK party as God’s army

Justice Minister Mmamaloku Kubayi

UPDATED: Justice department suspends senior officials over delayed Madlanga inquiry into corruption

The Economic Freedom Fighters said the postponement of the probe proves President Cyril Ramaphosa never intended to investigate implicated suspended police minister