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Nkosazama Zuma retires
Veteran South African politician and anti-apartheid campaigner, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who was a minister in founding President Nelson Mandela's cabinet, says she has taken a decision to retire from ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 13:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa postpones Cabinet reshuffle
President Cyril Ramaphosa postponed announcing changes to his executive on Thursday due to ill health. News24 says it understands that he was meant to meet with ANC officials at midday on Thur...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dumps SA-based students
GOVERNMENT has practically dumped Zimbabwean students affected by a recent South African government directive which withdrew a waiver allowing students to apply for permanent residence permits....Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
More woes for SA-based Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEAN students in neighbouring South Africa have suffered a major blow after Pretoria withdrew a waiver allowing them to apply for permanent residence permits.Foreign students studying in...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu to apply her mind on ANC presidency
Minister of Tourism Lindiwe Sisulu is playing her cards close to her chest about her presidential ambitions as slates for the ANC's 55th elective conference have started doing rounds.Sisulu, 6...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dlamini-Zuma clobbers Ramaphosa over Rupert
THE ANC's national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Sunday turned into a heated show of force when some of the ANC's top guns took President Cyril Ramaphosa to task over his close proximity to bil...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bodies repatriation crisis
Zimbabweans dying in South Africa have been caught up in an industrial dispute that has already stopped the repatriation of Zimbabwean bodies.An average of 70 bodies are sent home by road each...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma laughs at Ramaphosa
Former South African President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma on Monday posted a tweet that was an indirect jibe at the embattled current President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa who is accused of ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 17:19hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cyril Ramaphosa panics
Reports from South Africa indicate that the country's President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's lawyers have accused the public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane of unlawfully obtaining financial information fr...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 11:34hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dabengwa funded Ramaphosa's campaign with R500 000
Former MTN group CEO and Eskom board member Sifiso Dabengwa funded the South Africa President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign with a whopping R500 000. President Ramaphosa is accused of be...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 10:38hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dlamini-Zuma talks up Zimbabwe's economic prospects
Former African Union (AU) Commission chairperson and South Africa's Minister in the Presidency Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has expressed confidence that Zimbabwe will soon turn the tide and become the r...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Post-Election violence commission submission
I am an independent member of the Zimbabwean society, meaning that I make rational decision and conclusions on political matters. Officially I am trained in the accounting profession henceforth in my ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Malema hits out 'house niggars'
Firebrand EFF leader Julius Malema has lashed out at the way Africans are perceived when talking about white or Indian racism, calling some black reporters who are critical of his party "house niggars...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 14:27hrs | | by news24
Zuma's 24 year old lover gave birth to baby boy on JZ's birthday
A 24-year-old woman purported to be Jacob Zuma's bride-to-be delivered a baby boy in the Busamed Hillcrest Private Hospital on Thursday April 12, the same day the former president turned 76.Do...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:58hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Bride Price is not body purchase!
The payment of bride price is a common phenomenon that is practiced in most of Africa and some parts of Asia. It is a way of showing appreciation to the parents of the bride for conceiving her as well...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 11:51hrs | | by Daniel Itai
Teachers up in arms with ministry over errors in cultural books
VICTORIA Falls teachers are up in arms with the Primary and Secondary Education ministry over new religious and cultural books that they claim and carried "wrong and malicious" statements that do not ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 13:26hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa wins election as ANC president
JOHANNESBURG - South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was elected leader of the African National Congress on Monday in a close-run vote that will set the direction for the country and the scan...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 17:42hrs | | by Reuters
A visa-free Africa still faces hurdles
Despite fears of increase in crimes, some countries are liberalizing visas to attract investors Would an Africa in which Africans require no visa...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Kerry Dimmer
Ramaphosa believes Zuma is guilty of rape
A leading contender to replace President Jacob Zuma as head of South Africa's governing ANC has said he believes the woman who accused Mr Zuma of rape over a decade ago was telling the truth.M...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 10:24hrs | | by BBC
ANC, Zanu-PF in same WhatsApp group
DA leader Mmusi Maimane is hopeful that the recent events in Zimbabwe will teach South Africans a lesson.Maimane was speaking at the Daily Maverick's "The Gathering" in the Sandton Convention ...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zuma denounces white monopoly economic power
South African President Jacob Zuma reiterated a call on Monday for radical reforms to shift the balance of "monopoly" economic power away from whites who dominated under apartheid, saying without such...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Reuters
WATCH: Mugabe attacks Ian Khama
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday mocked Botswana leader Ian Khama for his unenthusiastic attitude towards campaigning for Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, who wanted to succeed Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as Afric...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'8 candidates for ANC presidency is abnormal'
African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe has labelled the number of candidates vying for the top position in the ruling party as abnormal, saying "something is sick".Mantashe...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa: Dirty, dirty politics
THE ruling African National Congress (ANC) is going for its elective congress in December to choose who is going to replace President Jacob Zuma as his term at the helm of the revolutionary party expi...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Ramaphosa admits extra-marital affair
South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted having an extra-marital affair, but denied reports of multiple affairs.Speaking after allegations about his private life were publi...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe looks for Mugabe's successor after a surreal month
Before she landed herself in hot diplomatic water by allegedly attacking a South African model with a power cord, Zimbabwe’s notoriously ill-tempered first lady, Grace Mugabe, joined the clamour for...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 10:36hrs | | by Stephen Chan, SOAS, University of London
Dlamini-Zuma says Grace Mugabe must face the law over assault
Former African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday said Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, who is accused of beating up a young South African model, must face the law....Published: 18 Aug 2017 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
White farmers did not believe Mugabe would move against them
A Zimbabwean farmers' union leader warned white South African farmers they should agree a deal to share land with the black majority before they suffer the same fate as neighbors in Zimbabwe who were ...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 12:37hrs | | by Reuters
Zuma to face Mbeki-style ousting?
Mounting pressure from alliance partners, opposition parties and civil society groups is unlikely to lead to President Jacob Zuma's ousting before December, but an early exit-strategy for Zuma may be ...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 08:16hrs | | by HuffPost SA
Mugabe gets away with murder
SOUTH African opposition parties yesterday celebrated after Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng ruled that Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete could conduct a vote-of-no-confidence motion in President Jacob ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 12:47hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Dr Dlamini-Zuma ready to lead South Africa
ANC presidential candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma used an invitation by the ANC Youth League in Limpopo to finally accept nomination to be president.Dlamini-Zuma was well received in Polokwane...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 09:49hrs | | by City Press
Zuma roundly defeats his ANC opponents
President Jacob Zuma is a winner.He roundly defeated his opponents at a meeting of the African National Congress' national executive committee over the weekend, threatening those challenging h...Published: 29 May 2017 at 08:50hrs | | by huffingtonpost
Mnangagwa has failed to impress his colleagues in Zanu-PF
A political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has insinuated that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is being touted as the successor of President Robert Mugabe has failed to impress his colleagues in t...Published: 25 May 2017 at 14:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa 'to scrap visas for all African citizens'
Johannesburg - South Africa is working towards allowing all African citizens to enter the country without visas – but at first "trusted travellers" like diplomats, officials, academics, business peo...Published: 15 May 2017 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Survivors of the 'Ramaphosa massacre' reject apology
Survivors of the Marikana massacre have rejected Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's apology for calling for "concomitant action" days before 34 miners were shot dead by police.According to ...Published: 08 May 2017 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bid to oust Zuma leaves SA opposition in catch 22
Opposition parties trying to get Jacob Zuma to resign are in a conundrum: if they bring down an unpopular president they may lose their best chance to win the next election."I suspect oppositi...Published: 03 May 2017 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Paul Vecchiatto and Mike Cohen, Bloomberg
Ramaphosa the ANC sell-out?
Johannesburg - The divisions in the tripartite alliance over the ANC's succession battle played out at Cosatu's nationwide May Day rallies with President Jacob Zuma and his "allies" booed while his d...Published: 02 May 2017 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zuma's Cabinet reshuffle was a long time coming'
Durban - President Jacob Zuma should have changed his Cabinet a long time ago, ANC chairperson in KwaZulu-Natal Sihle Zikalala said yesterday.While addressing the Twelve Apostles' Chur...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 10:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Democracies that have thrived on feminine disempowerment within The African Union
Extract from Reginald Thabani Gola's Operation Save Africa Campaign: The Multi-National Silent Holocaust.Democracy - as defined in the Dictionary of Con...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 19:05hrs | | by Reginald T. Gola
Of Pravin Gordhan and Zimbabwe interests
Depictions of South Africa's Treasury boss, Pravin Gordhan, who was dismissed last week, smack of malice if not a grand plot.One then has to ponder whether South Africa's recently sack...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Christopher Mugaga
South Africa has reached its Mugabe moment
Jeffrey Herbst is president and chief executive of the Newseum. Greg Mills is director of the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg. They are co-authors of "How South Africa Works" and the forthcoming...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 12:20hrs | | by Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills
Ramaphosa's Costly Political Gamble
Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa might have shot himself in the foot when he publicly criticised President Jacob Zuma for dismissing finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas in a c...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Thabo Kunene
Zuma recalls Pravin Gordhan from London
South African President Jacob Zuma's instruction ordering Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to cancel an international investment roadshow to London has sparked speculation about a possible cabinet ...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 13:27hrs | | by Milton Nkosi
We might have to leave the AU , Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I think by now most of you know that in my whole life, I have never been on the losing side. I don't know what losing is like, right from my childho...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 06:02hrs | | by CZ
Mugabe decries lure of money over principle
President Mugabe has lamented the sad sacrifice of principles as an increasing number of African leaders put monetary benefit above ideology.This follows the irregular - but not unexpected...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe back from Ethiopia
President Robert Mugabe has returned home from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia disappointed after the 28th Africa Union (AU) Summit re-admitted Morocco as a member, 32 years after quitting the continental b...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chad's Mahamat to take over from Dlamini-Zuma as AU Commission Chair
Addis Ababa - Chad's foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat is the next AU Commission chairperson.According to ...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe 'flies in, flies out'
President Robert Mugabe has left Harare for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the African Union summit, just hours after his arrival from a long holiday in Asia, The Standard said on Sunday.Mugabe...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 09:17hrs | | by Staf reporter
No to picnic on Gukurahundi graves
My People, I have been busy trying to recover the more than $1 million that I was swindled by a known international criminal. As a result, I was not able to follow developments back home for a few...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:34hrs | 5 | by Dr Stop It
Zuma reads Thuli Madonsela the riot act
President Jacob Zuma's son Edward has read former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela the riot act, saying she "should either become a full-time politician or just shut up".According to ...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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