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Willies Mchunu dumps ANC of Ramaphosa
Former KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu has resigned from the African National Congress (ANC), expressing deep concerns about the party's current trajectory and its handling of key political allia...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 16:16hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Zulu Reed dance marks 40 years of purity
With more than 40 000 young maidens having handed over their reeds at the eNyokeni Royal Palace in KwaNongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, on Saturday, the annual Zulu reed dance marked 40 years since its revival ...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 16:23hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Zuma's MK Party brings big guns to NCOP
The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is planning to send a team of heavyweights as its new members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) as early as this week.Sunday World revealed that forme...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:02hrs | 55 | by Mzilikazi wa Afrika
Malema in soup for fighting Ramaphosa
South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Sello Malema has come under fire on social media after he said President ...Published: 22 Dec 2022 at 08:25hrs | 58 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ramaphosa re-elected as ANC leader
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected leader of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) for a second term.President Ramaphosa, who had been widely tipped to secure a...Published: 19 Dec 2022 at 21:30hrs | 55 | by Staff Reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa refuses to resign
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will not resign despite a scandal over money stolen from his farm, his spokesman says.The row centres on claims he kept large sums of cash on his prope...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zuma's persecution by courts painful and unnecessary, says top ANC official
ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize has weighed in on former president Jacob Zuma's impending return to prison, describing it as painful and an unnecessary punishment for an 80 year old.Mkhi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
New ANC KZN leadership could spell trouble for Ramaphosa second term
The ANC has elected new leaders in the key region of KwaZulu-Natal, though it remains unclear whether the new collective will back President Cyril Ramaphosa's bid to win a second term as head of the p...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:11hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zweli Mkhize irks Ramaphosa's boot lickers
The ANC's veterans' league and party national executive committee (NEC) members have warned party members, including embattled former health minister Zweli Mkhize, against making declarations of willi...Published: 23 May 2022 at 08:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ANC shuts the door in Ace Magashule's face
The neighbouring South Africa's ruling African National Congress National Executive Committee has taken a decision that members of the organisation affected but Step-Aside resolution should not be nom...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 22:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cyril Ramaphosa supporters concede to likely defeat
The clean sweep in most ANC regional conferences by candidates aligned to the radical economic transformation (RET) group has sent shockwaves in President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR22 camp, with some lobbyi...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa appears to be using the ANC's step-aside rule to target, purge political opponents
President Cyril Ramaphosa increasingly appears to be using the ANC's "step-aside" rule to target and purge his political opponents, while affirming his untouchable supporters, before next year's elect...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Clyde Ramalaine
Ramaphosa's grip on state security machinery targets 2022 re-election
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of sweeping changes to the Cabinet last week may have appeared radical but did little to dispel the notion that he is paralysed by a commitment to protracted c...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 2 | by Cyril Madlala
Ramaphosa 'lacks will to fire Zweli Mkhize'
President Cyril Ramaphosa lacks the will to take action against the embattled Health Minister Zweli Mkhize because he needs the ANC NEC top member's support to be re-elected for the second term at the...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 18:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa purges SA Health minister Zweli Mkhize
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed Health minister Zweli Mkhize on special leave."This period of special leave will enable the minister to attend to allegations and investigat...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Suspended South African President to brief country on Covid-19 third wave 'soon'
"There will be a family meeting soon," acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has announced at a post-Cabinet briefing as the number of Covid-19 infections and the death toll continue ...Published: 27 May 2021 at 21:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa suspends rollout of J&J vaccine
South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced a temporary pause of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccine rollout.It follows a decision by the US Food and Drug Agency...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 22:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mr Ramaphosa prefers American vaccines while Dr Mkhize prefers Sputnik V
President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize allegedly tussled behind the scenes over where to procure which jabs, resulting in the country's vaccine rollout programme being negativel...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 jabs to start next week
AUTHORITIES have confirmed that the country will start vaccinating citizens against Covid-19 from next week — with healthcare workers receiving top priority in this inaugural phase.Speaking ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa CDC backs 'useless' AstraZeneca vaccine
African countries that have not reported the circulation of the 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa should proceed with the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the Af...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa turns to China for Covid-19 vaccines
South Africa is turning to China to supply Covid-19 vaccines as the country prepares to inoculate healthcare workers. Answering questions before the parliamentary health committee on Wednesday...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 17:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africa halts 'useless' AstraZeneca vaccinations
South Africa will suspend use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot in its vaccination programme after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild to moderate infection caused by the country's domina...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 22:02hrs | 25 | by Reuters
South Africa shuts illegal immigrants from Covid-19 vaccination roll out
South Africa, which will take delivery of its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from India on Monday, has sparked controversy after declaring it will exclude millions of undocumented immigrants from it...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Stop using veterinary drug for COVID-19 treatment'
THE Zimbabwe College of Public Health Physicians (ZCPHP) yesterday added its voice in calling for the total ban of controversial prescriptions and use of the veterinary drug, Ivermectin, which is repo...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chaka Chaka Covid-19 vaccine comment splits social media
VETERAN South African musician and humanitarian Yvonne Chaka Chaka sparked fierce debate on social media after questioning the production of the Covid-19 vaccine.The Umqombothi hitmaker took t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
40 million South Africans to receive COVID-19 vaccine in 2021
Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday that the government was committed to rolling out vaccines with urgency to establish herd immunity against Covid-19.Speaking during a virtual public ...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 17:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Relief for Zimbabwe-SA travellers
South Africa has waived mandatory Covid-19 screening for truck drivers passing through Beitbridge Border Post to allow ease of movement at the region's busiest inland port.Congestion at the bo...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zweli Mkhize called on to intervene urgently in Beitbridge backlogs
With several deaths already recorded at the Beitbridge border post, the transport and freight forwarding industries have called for urgent intervention saying "a humanitarian disaster is unfolding"....Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 09:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge traffic now queues for up to 15km
Stringent Covid-19 regulations - including testing, symptom screenings, and curfews - is being blamed for a traffic jam stretching for kilometres on both sides of the Beitbridge border post between Zi...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 20:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
SA likely to return to lockdown
South Africa could return into lockdown following an upsurge in Covid-19 infections. Ranked number 16 in the world in infections, the country has the highest number of cases in Africa. Al...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SA's Covid-19 cases jump by 2,888 in a day
The cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases in SA on Wednesday, 258 days since the first confirmed case was announced in the country, is 757,144.Health minister Zweli Mkhize said there ha...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccine by November
South Africa's Minister of Health, Dr. Zweli Mkhize, has hinted that a COVID-19 vaccine could be available for the whole world by as soon as November.Although Dr. Mkhize didn't mention which c...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:49hrs | 4 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabweans in SA to get health insurance
Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals living and working legally here will be taken care of under the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI), South Africa's Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, sa...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 2 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
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
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 | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
Zuma firing ministers
Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma has summoned the rest of the ANC's top six to an urgent meeting in Pretoria, ...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 22:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zuma stands firm on calls for land expropriation without compensation
President Jacob Zuma took a strong stand at this weekend's national executive committee (NEC) meeting in Irene in Gauteng, defending his position on the issue of land expropriation without compens...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by City Press
Zuma stuns Zweli Mkhize at ANC rally
President Jacob Zuma stunned ANC deputy president hopeful Zweli Mkhize when he made a surprise arrival at the event where Mkhize would have looked to launch himself in the run-up to this year's el...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 08:06hrs | 7 | by City Press
ANC ready for woman president, says Zuma
JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma has said the ANC is ready for its first female leader, days after outgoing African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was named by the ANC Wome...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by AFP
Didymus Mutasa ropes in Tsvangirai's MDC-T
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, smarting from his failure to land a Central Committee seat which ruled him out of the Politburo, has roped in MDC-T and a Western-funded in...Published: 17 Dec 2014 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Congress day 3, Mujuru boycotts again, - Live updates
Zanu-PF delegates break into song and dance singing VaMugabe havabve (Mugabe is going nowhere).15:25 Foreign sister organisations have finis...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to tell TV viewers how he wooed Grace
South African TV viewers can expect to see Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in a different mood in two weeks' time.Normally militant and spewing out anti-British rhetoric when on TV, Mugabe w...Published: 23 May 2013 at 04:55hrs | | by Sunday World
'Motlanthe's position in government secure,' says Zuma
PRETORIA - President Jacob Zuma has dismissed concerns that his deputy in government, Kgalema Motlanthe, will leave his post following his failed bid for the African National Congress (ANC) presidenc...Published: 15 Jan 2013 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by BDLive
Zuma wins ANC leadership contest
The ANC announced the results of its leadership elections at its national elective conference at the University of the Free State campus in Mangaung on Tuesday afternoon.President Jacob Zuma ...Published: 18 Dec 2012 at 11:00hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
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