“It is time he tastes his own medicine.” This is what some people said when reacting to the expulsion of Ace Magashule from the ANC. The ANC confirmed Magashule’s expulsion on Monday after the party’s national disciplinary committee found…
The ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg has joined Eskom’s Megawatt Park in getting a mischievous new name on Google Maps‚ being labelled “Chief Albert Lootfreely House”. Chief Albert Luthuli House has been the home of the ANC since 1997…
‘Repulsive’ Political Party Funding Act blamed for financial woes The ANC plans to introduce several controversial funding mechanisms to deal with its dire financial position, including amending the Political Party Funding Act which it…
The ANC on Monday denied that it owes the taxman more than R100m. In a statement‚ the ruling party dismissed as false a report by the Daily Maverick that it had been given 10 days by the SA Revenue Service to settle the bill. The report…
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has confirmed receiving a complaint that President Cyril Ramaphosa has allegedly breached the Executive Code of Ethics. This is in relation to a leaked audio where Ramaphosa, purportedly speaking at a…
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his role as ANC leader, on Saturday emphasised the need for a basic income grant that the government pays to the millions of indigent and unemployed in a country where 46% are without work. Ramaphosa was…
Ruling party to tell suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule to publicly apologise for the letter he wrote to party president Cyril Ramaphosa ‘suspending’ him without the authority to do so Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace…
The Eastern Cape ANC provincial disciplinary committee has suspended the party membership of two senior OR Tambo district municipality politicians after they failed to take instructions from the provincial leadership. Deputy mayor Robert…
CEBELIHLE BHENGU eNCA journalist Lindsay Dentlinger and the ANC topped the trends list on social media on Tuesday during an antiracism protest by the ruling party at the eNCA offices in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. Some social media users…
RIAAN MARAIS and KGOTHATSO MADISA Fewer than 20 people took part in the Gqeberha (formally Port Elizabeth) leg of the ANC’s nationwide antiracism picket on Tuesday, but their message was loud and clear — racism should be fought wherever…
DA leader John Steenhuisen says there is no good or bad faction in the ANC, but rather South Africans have been misled to believe there are two factions in the ANC and the “good” one is righting the wrongs of the “bad” one. Steenhuisen…
Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) spokesperson Carl Niehaus has declined to comment on his suspension from the ANC after he attacked ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte in a recent statement. “I do not comment…
The ANC has cancelled its planned 109th birthday bash, which was due to be held in Limpopo in January. This comes after the party’s top six officials received a briefing from health minister Zweli Mkhize on the Covid-19 second wave of…
ANC MP Bongani Bongo will take a leave of absence from his position in parliament and the ANC national executive committee (NEC) ahead of his corruption trial. The decision is part of the outcomes of the special ANC NEC meeting to be…
An ANC councillor in the Eastern Cape’s Raymond Mhlaba Municipality in Alice, appeared in court on Monday on allegations of raping a 21-year-old University of Fort Hare student. The 48-year-old ward councillor of the Alice-based…
