GQEBERHA – Tensions ran high at the ANC Nelson Mandela Bay Region’s 113th anniversary celebration in New Brighton. Chaos erupted as members of a parallel ANC Youth League structure clashed over their exclusion in the programme. Provincial Chairperson, Oscar Mabuyane, had to intervene to restore order. READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE ON: enca
GABORONE – Botswana’s president-elect Duma Boko is a human rights lawyer who spent three decades in opposition fighting to dislodge the party in power for nearly 60 years before clinching his surprise landslide victory. The 54-year-old Harvard graduate inspired voters in the arid southern African country to turn out in large numbers for Wednesday’s elections […]
Botswana’s president conceded defeat on Friday after his party which has governed the diamond-rich African country for nearly six decades suffered a resounding defeat in general elections. “I wish to congratulate the opposition on their victory and concede the election,” President Mokgweetsi Masisi told reporters at a press conference. READ THE ARTICLE ON IOL
The Patriotic Alliance (PA) insisted that children of immigrants, who were born and have lived in South Africa since birth, must be sent back to their countries of origin. The lively crowd at the IOL elections discussion in Sandton reacted in support, and some in opposition, when the outspoken Kenny Kunene, who is PA deputy […]
Mkhwebane said that investigating the president was due to the lack of transparency in the details of his presidential campaign donations. Suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said she didn’t act with an ulterior or sinister motive when she launched investigations into President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2017 African National Congress presidential campaign. Testifying in her parliamentary impeachment inquiry […]
The party will hold its national congress at the weekend, where John Steenhuisen and Helen Zille will be running for re-election in their respective positions as the DA’s federal leader and its federal council chairperson. Political analysts believe that the Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen will have to prove that can lead without the shadow the […]
ANC in Ekurhuleni alleges the DA has no regard for democracy or service delivery, and that they just want power. The African National Congress (ANC) in Ekurhuleni has accused the Democratic Alliance (DA) of using the courts to try and hang on to power. The ANC has been admitted as a friend of the court […]
Mabuza took the opportunity during his address at his brother’s funeral to support his successor in the ANC as the person waiting in the wings to become the country’s number two. Deputy President David Mabuza’s public announcement of his resignation this weekend appears to have thrown the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons. This as pressure […]
The red berets said that if Williams failed to resign, they would table a motion of no confidence against him. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Tshwane has called for the resignation of City of Tshwane mayor Randall Williams, accusing him of failing to manage the metro’s finances. The call came after the auditor general’s […]
His decision comes on the back of an announcement from Zuma’s legal team late last year that the former president plans on bringing another application for State Advocate Billy Downer’s removal. Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Piet Koen is stepping aside from former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption case. Koen on Monday morning announced that […]