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Dr Mncwango appointed as new secretary general

Jacob Zuma led uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has appointed Dr Bongani Mncwango, a former executive at insurance giant Sanlam, as its new secretary-general, replac

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 18:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

The reality of '9 wasted years' - A decade WMC failed to capture Zuma

For too long, South Africans have been bombarded with a dishonest narrative coined by the very architects of our economic servitude, that the period of President Jacob Zuma's administration represents "9 wasted years." This phrase, repeate…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 13:33hrs | 5 | by Mzwanele Manyi

Mbeki was misled on Zuma claims

Former President Thabo Mbeki's widely reported gratuitous claim that former President Jacob Zuma - who was jailed for 10 years on Robben Island Prison -  was an apartheid spy is outrageous and unbefitting of a person of his stature, e…

Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 15:03hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo

Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda

Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda. They undermine and underestimate the MKP at their own peril. With ANC on an irreversible decline, MKP has become a key player in black politics, writes Prof. Sipho Seep…

Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | | by Prof. Sipho Seepe

What is the probability that those who poisoned Jacob Zuma poisoned Paul Mashatile?

The recent health scare involving Paul Mashatile, South Africa's Deputy President, has reignited discussions about the troubling pattern of alleged poisonings among top South African politicians. With former President Jacob Zuma and former…

Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:09hrs | | by Askari

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 provincial elections while still an ANC memb…

Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 06:00hrs | 9 | by Nkosikhulule Nyembezi

South Africa has a Zuma problem

Here's a copy of the intellectually embarrassing judgment handed down today by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, politically disqualifying former President Jacob Zuma from standing for election to the National Assembly in South Afr…

Published: 27 May 2024 at 14:59hrs | 12 | by Jonathan Moyo

Why Jacob Zuma is now winning court cases

On Tuesday, 9 April 2024, the electoral court set aside the IEC's decision to bar former president Jacob Zuma from running for a parliamentary seat. The IEC had disqualified Zuma due to his criminal record, including a 15-month jail term i…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 14:26hrs | 3 | by Siyabonga Hadebe

nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems

Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of State. The inquiry was meant to be broa…

Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 18:50hrs | | by Sipho Seepe

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 elective ANC national conference. In other w…

Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:25hrs | | by Clyde Ramalaine

Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess

At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't blame Zuma for the mess.Zuma may be a bad guy,…

Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:06hrs | 6 | by Kenneth Mufuka

Zuma roars loudly from the cells

The system of imprisoning former leaders in the world was the prerogative of the French from the time of Napoleon to Sarkozi. France has become accustomed to putting former leaders on trial, but the world is welcoming a new kid on the mark…

Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 15:57hrs | 16 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

Is the South African rainbow on the cusp of disarray?

Events are unfolding very fast in the rainbow nation, South Africa. And just like the previous week, the country is in suspense as the Free Zuma campaign gathers momentum in KwaZulu Natal province. It is clear that the ruling African Natio…

Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Jacob Zuma is receiving the politics of justice

In South Africa, we have three arms of government, that is, the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. Everyone seems content with allowing criticism of the legislators and the executive, but not the judiciary.The extraordinary and …

Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 11:26hrs | | by Bathabile Dlamini

Apartheid leaders in SA must be prosecuted for 'crimes against humanity and genocide'

Former Apartheid regime President De Klerk and his Colleagues must also be prosecuted for Crimes against Humanity and Genocide. These crimes have no statutory limitation or they are not time-limited or they are not statute-barred. De Klerk…

Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 20:41hrs | | by Njabulo

Killing of foreigners in South Africa is an evil act [Xenophobia]

When Mandela became the first black South  African  President, after a protracted struggle with the Apartheid government, many people thought that a new dawn of peace in Africa has been born. In Europe he was perceived as  a…

Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 09:37hrs | 4301 | by Njabulo

Life after the Presidency

Life after Presidency has to be time to relax and enjoy the fruits of hard work, to regurgitate and reflect on the past, to be a role model to the society and not to be an unrepentant nuisance. Interestingly,it also depends on circumstance…

Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 13:58hrs | 1816 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira

Zuma's demise

They say when the people have spoken there is nothing that one can relatively do. Even the incumbent president of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa reiterated this fact as he is very much fond of saying the voice of the people is the voice of Go…

Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 11:32hrs | | by Daniel Itai

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 Jacob Zuma. Ordinarily if we are to follow …

Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 14:51hrs | 926 | by Lloyd Msipa

Dr President Mnangagwa sets new world record of cabinet reshuffles!

Just when I thought we had seen it all in terms of shocking cabinet reshuffles; with Mr Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma of South Africa miles ahead in this political comrades marathon, then ED joins the Club!JZ has made about 11 cabinet reshuffl…

Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:39hrs | 5699 | by Mthokozisi Ndiweni

South Africa is making a 'historic mistake'

Proponents of the mantra of "radical economic empowerment" have found a new argument to the question whether it would destroy the South African economy as has happened in Venezuela and Zimbabwe: black South Africans might suffer for a whil…

Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 17:01hrs | | by Max Du Preez

SA opposition desperate to remove Zuma

To be fair, Zuma deserves to be in that position because he was democratically elected as the President of SA, in line with what is entrenched in the SA Constitution. What the opposition parties are doing is unconstitutional.They are tryin…

Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 10:06hrs | 557 | by Njabulo

South Africa will be better off if the vote to oust Zuma proves to be a damp squib

Relying on one event to change a country usually ends in tears - particularly when you pin so much on it that you endanger your future.The event on which many in the South African mainstream are pinning their hopes is the motion of no conf…

Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 08:40hrs | 1000 | by Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg

Politics of our lives

This is cool. In South Africa President De Klerk has found his voice yet during his time as National Education Minister he continued the principle of segregation at universities and in 1993 his government killed callously young people in t…

Published: 05 May 2017 at 16:56hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda

South Africa facing moment of reality

South Africa is currently engulfed in political and economic storms whose magnitude are threatening to tear the governing Tripartite Alliance apart, over and above the threat to the tenure of incumbent president, Jacob Zuma. At the centre …

Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Tererai Danga

Anti-Zuma protesters in London protest at Zanu-PF misrule

The Vigil is to mark the 37th anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence by a demonstration outside the Embassy in London next Saturday in protest at Zanu-PF's misrule.At the same time, Zanu-PF in the UK has invited people to join anniversary …

Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:28hrs | 691 | by ZimVigil

You can't continue doing a Mandela on me - Zuma

"Colonies do not cease to be colonies simply because they are independent," Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once noted.Peter Childs and Patrick Williams in their book; "An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory," elab…

Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 16:31hrs | 601 | by Bishop

To reduce the problems of South Africa to Zuma is being disingenuous

Let's not be naive and assume that Jacob Zuma is going to leave office because a couple hundred thousand people took a day off from work and took to the streets and sang in three part harmony urging him to step down. That's not quite how p…

Published: 14 Apr 2017 at 09:58hrs | 523 | by Oliver Dickson

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 principles should be Thabo Mbeki and C…

Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 19:14hrs | | by Khaya S Sithole

White supremacists, blacks join hands in anti-Zuma protests

The continuing mass protests against president Jacob Zuma  could see South Africa sliding into anachy with devastating economic repurcussions across the African continent.The on-going protests have unsettled thousands of African immig…

Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 12:16hrs | 1633 | by Thabo Kunene

Beneficiaries of Codesa linked BEE transactions feeling the heat

President Jacob Zuma's plan to take white capital monopoly head-on is starting to bear fruits and more casualties line up for trauma treatment.Although Zuma appears as a victim but the truth is there is more damage done on white capital be…

Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Social media

South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid

It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burning flame of the whole story.I mean, doe…

Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru

'SA honeymoon is over'

Preaching democracy and tolerance is easy. Practicing democracy and tolerance is much harder. SA honeymoon is over Preaching democracy and tolerance is easy. Practicing democracy and tolerance is much harder. SA honeymoon is over #AntiZuma…

Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Trevor Ncube

Gordhan or the nation?

The prospects for a genuine revolution, for a radical economic transformation, are not looking good for Zuma and the ANC. The liberation movement is sorely dividedA FEW months ago President Mugabe said South Africa needed another revolutio…

Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 05:41hrs | 768 | by Joram Nyathi

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 controversial cabinet reshuffle last wee…

Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 09:38hrs | | by Thabo Kunene

The ANC must bring back apartheid

Since the first and second piece about bringing back apartheid, I've had a lot of (white) twitter commenters say I don't lay enough of the blame for where we are at the ANC's feet.  To rectify this, I'll zoom in on the complicated rom…

Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 13:36hrs | | by Siya Khumalo

Why Zuma need to reshuffle the Cabinet

Why pres Zuma need to reshuffle the Cabinet 1. Pravin Gordhan has too many shares in banks and this will be a conflict of interest.2. There are people protecting white monopoly capital.3. We need Ministers who can bring about Radical Econo…

Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 09:37hrs | 1334 | by Social media

Zuma is the first president in SA to directly assault white privilege

Dear editor,Zuma is the first president in SA to directly assault white privilege. That is hella impressive. Some of y'all don't understand what's really happening, you just re-iterating what you are told in the headlines without criticall…

Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:32hrs | 1361 | by social media

Playing to the gallery at Kathrada's funeral

One of South Africa's anti-apartheid luminaries, Ahmed Kathrada, is gone and he was laid to rest in Johannesburg yesterday.His death and burial occurred when so much is happening in South Africa's body politic. In the ruling African Nation…

Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Hildegarde The Arena

Panicking Zuma takes the Robert Mugabe option

This article first appeared on News24.com titled "Panicking Zuma has thrown caution to the wind"A full-blown bust-up in the ANC cannot be far away. There will be blood on the walls for sure.President Jacob Zuma has thrown all caution to th…

Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 07:59hrs | 5781 | by Max du Preez

Jacob Zuma, help us help you resolve this immigration headache

According to an article on Africa Check's website, the number of Zimbabweans living in South Africa cannot be substantiated. The South African official figures have loads of discrepancies and data widely circulated in different publication…

Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Whitlaw Mugwiji

Zuma and his corrupt cronies now desperate

President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt cronies inside and outside the government are now desperate. The decision to lay criminal charges against the former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, is just the latest in a litany of attempts to inti…

Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 12:23hrs | | by Justice Malala

Mugabe, Zuma meeting of the doomed and the damned

The meeting between Mugabe and Zuma in Harare on Thursday was a surreal encounter between the doomed and the damned.'His Excellency President Zuma brings with him a cloud of hope and integrity' gushed Zanu PF, adding that Zuma was walking …

Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 05:24hrs | | by ZimVigil

Cyril Ramaphosa: A Presidency long overdue

I have noted with some trepidation at the general deterioration of what was once the first and foundational political party in Africa, the African National Congress (ANC).The ANC was founded in 1912 with very African and modest aspirations…

Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 19:40hrs | | by Ken Tecumseh Sibanda

Andile Mngxitama's article totally incorrect and misleading

Dear Sir/Madam,I refer to an online article published on Bulawayo24.com on 12 August by Andile Mngxitama titled "Anti-Zuma faction of the ruling party responsible for main losses suffered by the ANC."  The information that has been pu…

Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 14:22hrs | | by Shane Opperman

Anti-Zuma faction of the ruling party responsible for main losses suffered by the ANC

The 2016 local government elections results show that the anti-Zuma faction of the ruling party is responsible for the main losses suffered by the ANC. The result of the three Gauteng metropolitan cities, that is, the City of Johannesburg,…

Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 13:22hrs | | by Andile Mngxitama

Open letter to President Jacob Zuma concerning Zimbabwe

Sir:Parliamentary Panel on Zimbabwean Situation NecessaryI write this letter with a heavy  heart as I contemplate how best to address you and in a manner that creates a fruitful discourse between the two of us. The situation in Zimbab…

Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 12:54hrs | 4000 | by Ken Sibanda

Why ANC will not recall Zuma

Calls for the resignation of President Zuma are reverberating across South Africa and have reached an alarming crescendo.With his inclination towards Machiavellian modus operandi its highly unlikely that President Zuma will capitulate.The …

Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 12:50hrs | 4853 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira

Dear President Zuma

To President Jacob Zuma.Your ExcellencyI hope I find you well from attending the Imbizo in Kwazulu at the behest of King Goodwill Zwelithini.It is indeed a great honour to address you as a fellow leader and African. It was disheartening to…

Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 11:39hrs | | by Gilbert Dzikiti

February 12 : Day of reckoning for President Zuma as showdown with the EFF looms during SONA

They could easily pass for one of those state events merely compelled by law to hold, but which are nothing more than talk shops, appealing only to a handful of lawmakers and politicians. Well those who manage to make it through the addres…

Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 12:21hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri

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