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Mawande AmaShabalala is a political journalist and storyteller at the Sunday Times.

Luthuli House boss Fikile Mbalula decries failures in local government

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes that local government in the country is on its knees due to coalition governments.

ActionSA insists DA is behind collapse of Mpho Phalatse-led Joburg coalition

ActionSA national chairperson Michael Beaumont is adamant the DA must carry the blame for “handing Johannesburg to the ANC”.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula Mbalula visited Hammanskraal in Gauteng amid the rising death toll due to the cholera outbreak. File photo.
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Time over for 'sleeping, old people': Mbalula demands youthful cabinet

Newly elected ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes a cabinet reshuffle is imminent after the party's national elective conference.

Cabinet reshuffle imminent after more than a dozen ministers, deputies fail to make NEC cut

A cabinet reshuffle by president Cyril Ramaphosa is imminent after more than a dozen ministers and deputy ministers were not voted into the governing party's decision-making body between conferences — the national executive committee…

Cyril Ramaphosa will take on Zweli Mkhize for the position of ANC president.

Mkhize returns to NEC, Gordhan out in the cold

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan is among the high-profile ANC leaders who failed to make it into the party's powerful structure, the national executive committee.

ANC gives greenlight to plans to scrap public enterprises department

Delegates at the ANC national conference have endorsed plans to do away with the department of public enterprises in favour of placing SOEs in line departments.

Dr Zweli Mkhize and Ekurhuleni ANC Ekurhuleni regional chairperson Mzwandile Masina. File photo.

Masina criticises opponent Bejani Chauke: 'Some day you will vote for a Van der Merwe for money'

ANC Ekurhuleni regional chairperson and treasurer-general hopeful Mzwandile Masina on Monday took a veiled swipe at his opponent, president Cyril Ramaphosa's political adviser Bejani Chauke.

Zweli Mkhize arriving at the Dlamini Multipurpose Centre in Soweto on Monday as part of his last push campaign for ANC president ahead of the national elective conference this week.

Zweli Mkhize says ANC's step-aside rule 'undermines authority of branches'

ANC presidential candidate Zweli Mkhize on Monday launched a scathing attack on the party's step-aside rule as well as the nomination regulations for NEC membership set by the organisation's elections committee headed by former deputy…

Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu wants to be included in the ANC presidential election. File image

I was robbed, Lindiwe Sisulu tells Kgalema Motlanthe

Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu believes her failed ANC presidential bid was engineered by underhanded means.

Zweli Mkhize and Nomvula Mokonyane at the Bertha Gxowa memorial lecture in Katlehong.

Nomvula Mokonyane fingers Eskom as ANC's 'main opposition', says national conference must end this

The deputy secretary-general hopeful says South Africa should continue with coal-fired power stations instead of 'unreliable' renewable energy.

EFF and ANC KwaZulu-Natal believe former president Jacob Zuma should be left alone to play with his grandchildren despite an SCA judgement stating that his medical parole release was illegal. File photo.
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Sending Zuma back to jail serves no rehabilitation purpose: EFF

The DA is, however, adamant that the former president is not above the law and should go back to prison

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane shares a light moment with President Cyril Ramaphosa. Mabuyane is said to be one of the provincial leaders who convinced Ramaphosa to make a U-turn on his planned resignation.

KZN PEC endorsing Phumulo Masualle is aimed at dividing Eastern Cape, says provincial chair Oscar Mabuyane

ANC Eastern Cape provincial chairperson and deputy president hopeful Oscar Mabuyane believes the move by the provincial executive committee of KwaZulu-Natal to endorse his provincial colleague Phumulo Masualle before engaging with them…

Energy minister Gwede Mantashe snubbed President Cyril Ramaphosa's green energy signing.  File photo.

Cabinet forges ahead with South Africa going green but Mantashe digs in heels

The cabinet has come out in full support of talks between countries to reduce carbon emissions and go green.

Speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. File photo.

Phala Phala panel report deadline extended

National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has extended the deadline by which the independent panel of experts investigating the Phala Phala saga has to submit its report from Thursday to November 30.

Former president Jacob Zuma is fighting to stay out of jail amid his ongoing corruption trial. He has endorsed ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for party president and is apparently considering running himself for the top post. File photo.
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High-stakes ANC conference all about politicians' self-preservation, not you

Tighten your seat belts, fellow South Africans who are not part of the 4,200 voting delegates at the ANC conference, a bumpy ride ahead awaits us.