Bulawayo24 News - Skyes! "it makes perfect sense"

Jabulani Khumalo banks on captured ConCourt to unseat Zuma

Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jabulani Khumalo has launched an urgent Constitutional Court application seeking to reclaim the party's top leadership position from former President Jacob Zuma.Filed on August 12, 2025, the bid ai…

Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 16:18hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter

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, replacing Floyd Shivambu.The party also named Nomsa Dlamini as the new deputy secreta…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 19:43hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter

Zondo comes out of retirement to talks about Zuma

Clebrity judge and former Chief Justice who failed JSC interviews Raymond Zondo has publicly questioned the legality and integrity of former President Jacob Zuma's release from prison on medical parole, saying the Judiciary sent a strong m…

Published: 07 May 2025 at 14:32hrs | | 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 14:33hrs | 756 | by Mzwanele Manyi

MK Party celebrates Jacob Zuma's birthday

The uMkhonto weSizwe  (MK) Party is set to celebrate its founder and leader Jacob Zuma's birthday in a number of rallies across the country on Saturday.Born in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal in 1942, Zuma turns 83 on Saturday.Having spent m…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 15:16hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter

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 | 2271 | by Jonathan Moyo

Thabo Mbeki still 'bitter' since the 2007 ANC Polokwane conference

Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki stunned the party's national executive committee (NEC) members when he questioned the existence of the trial that resulted in his successor Jacob Zuma being convicted and tossed into Robben Island as a poli…

Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 16:23hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter

Zuma cracks down on Duduzile

South African opposition MK leader Jacob Zuma has intervened in the public feud between his daughter, Duduzile Zuma, and party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu, demanding that she retract her insults and issue a formal apology.Duduzile Zum…

Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 08:12hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter

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 | 1306 | by Prof. Sipho Seepe

Ex-ANC Free State chief whip ditches Ramaphosa's ANC joins MK Party

Vusi Tshabalala, the former Chief Whip of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Free State Provincial Legislature, has officially joined the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party), signaling a notable shift in the province's political dyna…

Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 11:59hrs | 662 | by Mzala Tom

Fikile Mbalula says ANC in KZN cannot match Jacob Zuma's MK Party

The current African National Congress leadership in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) was no match for former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party), ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said."We are fighting a Ferrari there with a Con…

Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 09:10hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter

Zuma rejects expulsion from ANC by Ramaphosa

Former President Jacob Zuma has rejected his expulsion from the African National Congress (ANC).The party's National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (NDCA) upheld Zuma's removal from the party, it announced on Friday.In a statement issued…

Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 16:17hrs | 1851 | by Staff reporter

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 10:09hrs | 2258 | 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 07:00hrs | 177 | by Nkosikhulule Nyembezi

ANC of Ramaphosa will regret expelling Jacob Zuma

After former president Jacob Zuma was summarily axed from the ANC his younger brother Khanya said the ANC would "regret it", vowing that it would thwart any growth for the once-powerful party."We are not even worried about his expulsion fr…

Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 18:06hrs | 1831 | by Staff reporter

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 Mbalula confirmed that Zuma had been expelled from t…

Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 10:25hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa expels Jacob Zuma from ANC

The African National Congress (ANC) of Cyril Ramaphosa has expelled former president Jacob Zuma.Zuma was hauled before the party's disciplinary committee after he publicly endorsed the uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (MKP) ahead of the 29 May elect…

Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 08:17hrs | 2797 | 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 general elections.They claim the preside…

Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:09hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter

MKP express dismay at 'racist conduct' of the DA and NGOs

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has hit back at the DA and white monopoly capital funded non-governmental organisations that have opposed the election of MKP's parliamentary leader and former Western Cape judge president John Hlophe to ser…

Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 15:19hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Dr John Hlophe's election to the JSC is most feared by neoliberals

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has welcomed the appointment of Umkhonto weSizwe's parliamentary chief whip to represent the National Assembly in the Judicial Service Commission - the primary body which serves as a watchdog for judges …

Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 09:59hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

MK Party still wants Zuma in the ANC

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) in KwaZulu-Natal says the ANC has no leg to stand on in its disciplinary hearing of former president Jacob Zuma.The ANC's National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) has set down July 17 for its virtual disciplin…

Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 08:05hrs | 21 | 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 former Eskom CEO, Brian Molefe, former Prasa CEO, Lu…

Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:02hrs | 55 | by Mzilikazi wa Afrika

Zim under Mnangagwa is now worse than Zuma's SA!

Who can forget the daily live broadcasts of the 'Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture' in neighboring South Africa?I, for one, made sure not to miss any of these hearings.Each time, I was left more flabbergasted and disgusted by …

Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 15:13hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zuma wins MK party leadership case against media favourite Khumalo

Embattled uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party founder Jabulani Khumalo has been dealt a blow after the Electoral Court on Wednesday dismissed his hopes of being reinstated as the party's leader.The Specialist Court handed down judgment electronica…

Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:30hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter

Death threats issued against Zuma, culprit still not arrested

PhD holder, Dr Simamkele Dlakavu, this weekend purportedly took to â€˜X' and demanded the death and assassination of uMkhonto weSizwe Party president Jacob Zuma.Dlakavu, in a series of tweets, purportedly coming from her account, immediate…

Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 07:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

MK Party files papers with ConCourt to stop rigged election results

Jacob Zuma's Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party has filed urgent papers with the Constitutional Court to interdict the first sitting of the National Assembly (NA).The papers were filed three days before the NA is scheduled to vote for the Preside…

Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 12:10hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Zuma's MK party asks Zondo to interdict first sitting of parliament

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party said on Monday it had instructed its lawyers to ask the constitutional court for an urgent interdict to prohibit parliament from proceeding with the swearing in of new MPs and the election of the president n…

Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 09:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Without Zuma's 58 MPs parliament will collapse

Should the MK Party's (MKP) 58 MPs decide not to show up in parliament, as its leader Jacob Zuma has indicated to be a possibility after their contesting of the 2024 national elections, the National Assembly cannot be constituted. Legally,…

Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Zuma calls out 'snakes' in Ramaphosa's ANC

LEADER of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Jacob Zuma says the formation of the party was to protect the ANC against President Cyril Ramaphosa.Zuma used a snake as an analogy, saying a man of the house must do everything even without a wea…

Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zuma first day Parliament boycott will force a new election

The South African National Assembly cannot form a quorum if Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe chooses to boycott the first day of Parliament.Many so-called legal experts like Casac's Lawson Naidoo have been caught pants down in interpreting th…

Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 13:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zuma's MK party snubs ANC coalition overtures

The African National Congress (ANC) has confirmed engaging in coalition talks with several opposition parties following their failure to secure a majority in last week's elections, marking the first such occurrence since the end of Aparthe…

Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zuma and Ramaphosa must find each other

IT'S time for political leaders in South Africa particularly the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) to bury their differences and defend not only the legacy of the revolutionary party but also the aspirations of the …

Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

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 15:59hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Chris Hani would be MK Party member, says daughter

My father would have been part of this historic move and defining moment in the political landscape of our country, the eldest daughter of the late uMkhonto weSizwe chief of staff Chris Hani said on Sunday.Cleopatra Hani, a staunch support…

Published: 20 May 2024 at 08:28hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter

Zuma tops MK Party list

The Electoral Commission (IEC) has published the final candidate list for the 2024 national and provincial elections on its website.The name of former President Jacob Zuma tops the MK Party list. On Tuesday, the former President won his ap…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 21:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

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 15:26hrs | 11 | by Siyabonga Hadebe

Attempt on Zuma's life flops?

Police arrest 51-year-old man for drunk and reckless driving after he crashed into Zuma's armoured state vehicle.South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma survived a car accident after a vehicle transporting him was hit by a drunk driver,…

Published: 29 Mar 2024 at 19:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

'Why is vote counting in South Africa done in secrecy?' asks Zuma

In a first public challenge of its kind by a major public figure in the country, the integrity of South Africa's electoral system has been put into sharp question by former President Jacob Zuma in today in an address to members of the All …

Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Zondo's court says Zuma must go back to prison

The Constitutional Court dismissed the Department of Correctional Services' application for leave to appeal a ruling that former president Jacob Zuma must go back to prison.In the ruling handed down on Thursday, the apex court found DCS's …

Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 16:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zuma dares Judges to apply double standards

Jacob Zuma says his urgent court application to interdict his private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa will test "whether Lady Justice has removed her blindfold in South Africa"."There cannot be one law for Zuma and another law for…

Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:19hrs | | 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.Mkhize gave a political lecture in Katlehong, east …

Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter

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 19:50hrs | 1 | by Sipho Seepe

Zondo ignores dirt on Ramaphosa

MORE than R1 billion later and after eight million pages of documentary evidence, 75 000 pages of transcribed oral evidence and over 800 witnesses, the final chapter of the Commission of inquiry into State Capture led by Chief Justice Raym…

Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 11:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Zuma wants Zondo probed

Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma has instructed his legal team to take the State Capture Commission report on review. According to JG Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi, Zuma will also be reporting Chief Justice Raymond Zo…

Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zuma sent back to jail

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled that former National Commissioner of Correctional Services Arthur Fraser's decision to place former president Jacob Zuma on medical parole was unlawful - and ordered that he should return to jai…

Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 16:37hrs | 30 | by Staff Reporter

Zuma releases book to set record straight

Former president Jacob Zuma, accused of orchestrating the systematic plunder of government coffers during his rule, launched a new book on Sunday in which he intends "to set the record straight".Titled Jacob Zuma Speaks, the book comes aft…

Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zuma will never win a court case in South Africa

The Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma's application to rescind the court's earlier judgment, which sentenced him to 15 months' imprisonment for contempt of court.The country's apex court had sentenced Zum…

Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Not even a presidential pardon can correct Zuma's illegal detention'

One of the parties that has been asked by the Constitutional Court (Concourt) to make submissions regarding the "illegal detention" of former president Jacob Zuma and his rescission application says few options can be applied to remedy the…

Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 11:08hrs | 2 | 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 elective ANC national conference. In other w…

Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 5 | by Clyde Ramalaine

Zuma's life is at 'significant risk'

A high-level military doctor has told prison and prosecuting authorities that Jacob Zuma suffered a "traumatic injury" late last year and now needs "extensive emergency treatment" and six months of care to restore his health.But, in an as …

Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter

Search / Zuma

Get latest news by email:

Zimbabwe-Ndebele speaking Zandile stop Criminal Operation Dudula!

SMEs can contribute significantly to Zimbabwe's economic revival, says Minister Mutsvangwa

FIFA probes South Africa over ineligible Mokoena

Mnangagwa rejects 2028 elections delay

Zesa employees steal US$3.8m in critical equipment

8-year-old drug abuser admitted to rehab centre

Polad member acquitted

Zimbabwe sanctions repeal signal excites, but .

Govt introduces stricter drivers' licensing rules

Court halts US$37 million RioZim payout

Spain threatens 2026 World Cup boycott

Zimbabwe's maize import ban not good for SA farmers

Tagwirei splashes US$2m on Mnangagwa's birthday

Operation Dudula leader silent on claims of Zimbabwean origins

Harare shuts down 1,800 businesses in CBD

Zimbabwe targets US$1 billion import savings

Girl raped at knifepoint

Zimbabwe's prophet of doom speaks on de-dollarisation

Makarawu, Charamba storm into World Championship semis

Ministers to report to Zanu-PF Politburo

Zanu-PF benefactor, Harare in nasty property fight

Postal, courier volumes surge 39% in Zimbabwe

9 Chinese nationals to be deported over cocaine

Herbal concoctions linked to rise in prostate problems

Jetex sues Air Zimbabwe over DRC crew assistance

Defence Ministry tops Mutare City debtors list

Bulawayo woman champions virginity preservation project

Zimra investigating a sophisticated scam

Masvingo-Beitbridge road to close on September 19

Convicted Bosso fraudster to get a lenient sentence