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Fikile Mbalula killing Chris Hani again
It seems the dust has not yet settled between ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula and Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi as talk of "rogueness in the ANC" sparks debate. Earlier this month, Mbalu...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 13:23hrs | 2377 | by Staff reporter
SACP rejects ANC invitation for 100 days of GNU celebrations
Johannesburg, South Africa – The South African Communist Party (SACP) has officially declined an invitation from the African National Congress (ANC) to participate in the celebrations marking the fi...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 16:06hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Collen Malatji issues fiery warning to Ramaphosa
In a passionate and defiant address during a march from Luthuli House to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in Sandton, African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Collen Malatji deliv...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:17hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Mbalula summons Lesufi to Luthuli House over public anti-GNU remarks
ANC Gauteng chair Panyaza Lesufi was on Monday summoned to Luthuli House to answer to national officials about his negative public remarks regarding the government of national unity (GNU).The ...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 13:50hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa must brace itself for a messy implosion
For over six months, everyone argued about whether there would be consequences for former state president Jacob Zuma's action to support the Umkhonto WeSizwe Party (MKP) in the last national and provi...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 177 | by Nkosikhulule Nyembezi
Zuma, ANC of Ramaphosa fight far from over, says analyst
Political analysts have predicted that the recently expelled former president Jacob Zuma may appeal his expulsion from the ANC.In a press briefing on Monday, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalu...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 10:25hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:09hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter
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 | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mbalula denies axing David Masondo over Zanu-PF criticism, Ibbo Mandaza lecture
THE ANC last week announced that its head of political education David Makhura has been appointed as the new head of the party's governance school, meaning that ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ibbo Mandaza lecture to be held at ANC political school
AFTER a face-off with Fikile Mbalula over a seminar on Zimbabwe's presidential elections, leaders of the ANC's political school are forging ahead with the event. The seminar will be held on September ...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe in behind the scenes talks
The South African government and the governing ANC under President Cyril Ramaphosa are engaged in new secret talks with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's freshly-minted administration to resol...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Ace Magashule may be gone, but divisions in the ANC will mount'
The expulsion of Ace Magashule from the ANC is likely to divide the ruling party further, according to a political analyst.The former Free State premier was officially shown the door on Monday...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ANC does not support idea of regime change in Zimbabwe
Moments after being announced as incoming secretary-general of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Fikile Mbalula said his party would intensify assisting neighbouring Zimbabwe to recover from...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 19:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: How Ramaphosa created Nhlanhla Lux to help win 2024 elections
Nhlanhla Lux Mohlauli, the xenophobic leader of the extremist vigilante group Operation Dudula is a creation of President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's faction of the ANC as a joker card that will ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 13:58hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ANC crumbles under Cyril Ramaphosa
UNDER President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC seems to be falling apart. The once-glorious movement seems to be a former shadow of its past. These sentiments are shared by, among others, the staff ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa wants Magashule to apologise to him
Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule's political missteps are coming back to haunt him Just a week after his ANC membership was temporarily suspended, the party's national executive committee...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 07 May 2021 at 11:34hrs | 4 | by Piet Rampedi
Ramaphosa using cabinet reshuffle to sideline Magashule
In a bid to assert his leadership over the party, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is using a possible Cabinet reshuffle to garner majority support for a resolution to sideline his arch-rival and party s...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ANC delegate to Harare told Zanu-PF they want to oust Ramaphosa
A Zimbabwean senior ruling Zanu-PF official told The NewsHawks that when South Africa's governing ANC leaders visited Harare in Sept 2020 to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis, one of them intimated that the...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
An open letter to all former Zipra cadres - Response to comments from the president of the MLF
17 December, 2020 Comments on any presentation, debate and indeed on any other body of ideas put forward are one of the cornerstones of what makes us human. It is through such engagements that...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 21:40hrs | 1 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Hashtag gimmicks aren't real politics
THE only thing that the hashtag movement #ZimLivesMatter succeeded in doing was to draw international attention towards the Zimbabwean political situation.This, indeed, persuaded Luthuli House...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Robert Sigauke
'ANC' Loses it on ZANU PF
The only thing that the hashtag movement #ZimLivesMatter succeeded in doing was to get international attention towards the Zimbabwean political situation. This indeed persuaded Luthuli House to dispat...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Ramaphosa to be impeached over ANC's Zimbabwe trip?
Even when President Cyril Ramaphosa was satisfied with Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's explanation of the ANC's use of the state aircraft for party purposes in Zimbabwe, the president and m...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 6 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Chamisa's supporters in SA ask for ANC to step in
Concerned MDC Chamisa supporters on Friday called on the African National Congress (ANC) to intervene in Zimbabwe.Coordinator Tino Mambeu said they were sending South African President Cyril R...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:16hrs | 3 | by African News Agency
Zimbabweans march to ANC headquaters over Mnangagwa
A South Africa umbrella body of Zimbabwe Civic Society organizations has called upon all Zimbabweans to participate in a march to African National Congress Headquarters Luthuli House.The aim o...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 17:10hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa using ANC integrity commission to purge Zuma loyalists
The ANC is at odds about the status of its integrity commission rulings, with some members arguing that the structure is used to settle factional scores.The matter was among the dominant subje...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 15:19hrs | | by City Press
Fresh bid to nullify Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC election
A fresh bid to nullify the election of President Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC leader is under way, with unhappy party members claiming that Ramaphosa was elected by bogus Mpumalanga branches at the party's ...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 18:35hrs | | by City Press
Hefty perks for Obert Mpofu and other fired old gurad
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown a lifeline to his fellow comrades-in-arms whom he dropped from his Cabinet more than a week ago by giving them plum jobs at the Zanu-PF headquarters, complete w...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:37hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa 'dodged a coup' in SA
South Africa narrowly averted a mutiny by soldiers loyal to former president Jacob Zuma on the eve of his forced resignation in February.Highly placed sources within the security forces and AN...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 19:55hrs | 3 | by City Press
WATCH: From Ginimbi's $8k bill to slay queens' R37k unpaid bill
WONDERS will never cease.While Zimbabweans were amazed by an $8 000 bill for drinks that emanated from socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's nightclub in Harare at the weekend, in neighbourin...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ANC denies Malema sell-out allegations
The ANC "intervened" on Monday and stopped disgruntled former ANC Women's League (ANCWL) national executive committee members (NEC) from responding to allegations levelled at them by EFF leader Julius...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by News24
'SA won't follow Zimbabwe land reform road'
The ANC on Friday reiterated its support for land expropriation without compensation, coming on the back of a successful Parliamentary motion on Tuesday to review the property clause in the Constituti...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 08:16hrs | | by City Press
Zuma's resignation speech
Members of the Media, present hereFellow South Africans, I address you after weeks of speculation about my future as President of the Republic of South Africa.In particular, I make ref...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by APO
The Jacob Zuma Dilemma and the options for the ANC
The highest decision-making body in the African National Congress (ANC), the National Executive Committee (NEC) has exercised its authority and has recalled its member and current state president Jaco...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 14:51hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
WATCH: Gwede Mantashe reacts to Mugabe's criticism of Mandela
THE ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe this week moved to call on the Zimbabwean leader to stop attacking Nelson Mandela's legacy.Mantashe on Tuesday told the media in Johannesburg that he h...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 15:14hrs | | by online
Mugabe hits out at 'stupid' Mantashe
There are social media reports that President Robert Mugabe has responded to the ANC after its Secretary General Gwede Mantashe this week moved to call on the Zimbabwean leader to stop attacking Nelso...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 14:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by HuffPost SA
SA wary of Kasukuwere - Malema link
SOUTH Africa's ruling ANC wants Zimbabwe to rein in Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere over his alleged links with Mr Julius Malema, it has emerged.Our Harare Bureau under...Published: 14 May 2017 at 14:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki should be the last person to preach Zuma about values
That the administration of Jacob Zuma has structural flaws is no longer in dispute. But - having masterminded his accidental elevation to power - the last people to preach to Msholozi about values and...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by Khaya S Sithole
ANC veterans to send 600 'combat ready' soldiers to defend Luthuli House
The ANC's military veterans wing in KwaZulu-Natal is deploying 600 "combat ready" former guerrillas to "defend" the governing party's Luthuli House against the "enemy" marching to demand President...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by City Press
Gordhan planned to discredit Jacob Zuma in the US
A report stating that finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, planned to meet foreign businesses to discredit President Jacob Zuma is believed to be the reason for their rec...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 18:42hrs | | by City Press
Zuma survives ANC recall
President Jacob Zuma's job seems to be safe for now. He will leave for Havana, Cuba, in the early hours of Tuesday morning for Fidel Castro's funeral service to be held at the weekend.His trip...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 21:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC is heading for a split, says analyst
A political analyst believes that the ANC has already split 'in spirit', and will not be able to agree on a successor to current president Jacob Zuma before its elective conference in December 201...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 11:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'ANC leaders who spoke out against Guptas backed by white capitalists'
Johannesburg - The Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans' Association (MKMVA) gave a tongue-lashing to several ANC leaders yesterday at Luthuli House, accusing them of colluding with white capitalists to...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:41hrs | | by Agencies
'Zipra failed to protect us from Mbokodo abuses,' claims MK veteran
Cape Town - Former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre who testified at the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC) about human rights abuses committed by the ANC in exile says former Zipra commanders s...Published: 07 May 2015 at 09:31hrs | 13 | by Thabo Kunene
The irony of Mugabe's AU chairmanship and Zanu-PF's prolonged infighting
The significance of the Zambian election to many Zimbabweans is not so much its outcome, but the reception that President Robert Mugabe got, which in my view underscored the disdain of many in the reg...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 13:14hrs | 1 | by Charles Mangongera
Now they say Mugabe's AU post immaterial
Analysts and prominent political figures say the assumption of the ceremonial chairmanship of the African Union by President Robert Mugabe will neither dim the critical spotlight on him and his warrin...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 13:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbeki's mother dies
Johannesburg - Former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki's 98-year-old mother Epainette has died, the SABC reported on Saturday.The Mbeki family confirmed that Epainette had died at a private...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 08:34hrs | | by Sapa
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