Following an online backlash, the South African Presidency has come out to clarify the comment by President Cyril Ramaphosa that visa regulations for Nigerian tourists coming to the country would be eased.  The clarification has eased the pressure on Ramaphosa who was already facing an online backlash for suggesting that in order to ease the flow of people between South Africa and Nigeria, the process would be simplified.  “We want to see Nigerian products on the shelves of South African…

The MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in KwaZulu-Natal, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi, has been temporarily stopped in his spirited bid to relocate the department’s traditional affairs division to Ulundi. The opening was billed for Thursday, 5 December 2024, but it was halted after Premier Thami Ntuli intervened. Ntuli said the halting would be until the government of provincial unity involving the IFP, ANC, DA and the National Freedom Party (NFP) is satisfied that all legal processes were followed. …

The president of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), Joseph Mathunjwa has lambasted former president Jacob Zuma, saying he should have done the things he is now promising the people while he was in power for nine years between 2009 and 2018. Mathunjwa said this on Friday while campaigning for the AMCU funded Labour Party in Thabazimbi, Limpopo, ahead of Wednesday’s by-elections. “He (Zuma) reduced this country into a squalor, to be a dustbin. Then you turn around…

The future of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive committee (PEC) of the ANC chaired by Siboniso Duma now lies with the party’s national executive committee (NEC) following today’s behind closed doors meeting with the national working committee (NWC). This was said by the party’s secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula while addressing the media in Boksburg on Friday after the meeting.  The meeting took place amid rising tension and a public fallout between the national leadership and the KZN PEC, whose vocal Provincial Secretary…

The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) in Limpopo says it’s all systems go for the by-election in the Thabazimbi Local Municipality on Wednesday, 4 December 2024. The Provincial Electoral Officer, Nkaro Mateta, says the commission is ready to receive the over 51,000 registered voters expected to cast their ballots. Addressing the media on Saturday, she reiterated that 21 political parties and five independent candidates will compete for control of the troubled council in the Waterberg region.  The Umkhonto…

In what appears to be a push back ahead of Monday’s “compulsory” meeting with the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC), the provincial secretary of the party in KwaZulu-Natal has said top leaders must also account for the May 29 electoral drubbing. Bheki Mtolo says it is fair that all party members, from branches to the national leadership, account for the ANC’s electoral decline, which saw the governing party losing its outright majority for the first time since 1994.  He was…

The ANC NWC (National Working Committee) meeting with the provincial executive committee of the ANC in KwaZulu, billed for this Saturday in Boksburg, has been postponed to Monday. The “compulsory” meeting comes amid wide speculations that the NWC will inform the PEC chaired by Siboniso Duma that it would be disbanded and replaced with a provincial task team (PTT). Sources said the task team is likely to be led by ANC heavyweight Mike Mabuyakhulu, assisted by Siphile Mdaka and include…

The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) has summoned the party’s KwaZulu-Natal leadership to a “compulsory” meeting in Boksburg, Gauteng, fuelling growing speculations that the provincial executive committee (PEC) will be dissolved. In the letter of summon signed by Fikile Mbalula, the ANC’s Secretary-General, all PEC members are expected to attend the meeting on Saturday, November 31, without fail. However, the letter dated 26 November 2024 (Tuesday) does not state the agenda of the meeting. “It is compulsory that all PEC…

The South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO) in KwaZulu-Natal has dismissed allegations that it recently cut ties with the ANC in the province because it wanted to join forces with the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party. The provincial chairperson of the civic organisation, Lawrence Dube, says they “will never”’ join forces with the Jacob Zuma led splinter party. SANCO is part of the ANC-led alliance alongside the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South African Communist Party (SACP). Dube…

The Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Speaker of Nongoma Local Municipality are set to spend the next four days behind bars following their first court appearance today. Clifford Mshangane Ndabandaba of the National Freedom Party (NFP), Sabelo Nkosi from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and Babongile Sithole from the African National Congress (ANC) were arrested on Friday morning and charged with corruption. The trio appeared before the Nongoma Magistrate’s Court. However, they could not apply for bail and their matter was…