The ANC-led KwaDukuza Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has officially confirmed that funds were illegally siphoned from its ABSA bank account on Friday last week. The confirmation comes after alleged attempts to keep the matter under wraps as it is believed that this could be an inside job. However, the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party in the province blew the whistle, forcing the municipality to come out and confirm the theft.  The municipality did not say how much was stolen while the…

A KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress (ANC) ward councillor has been shot dead at the notorious KwaSithebe township in Mandeni in the politically volatile province. Phendukani Mabhida, the councillor of ward 18 at the ANC-run Mandeni Local Municipality, was attacked by unknown gunmen at his home on Tuesday (February 4) night, according to a source familiar with the incident. He was then rushed to hospital where he later died.  The source said Mabhida was attacked by two heavily armed gunmen around…

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has been quietly authorised to probe allegations of wrongdoing at Ithala Development Finance Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Ithala (SOC) Limited (Ithala Bank). This is outlined in Proclamation 243 of 2025 which was signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday, setting the investigation in motion immediately. Ithala Bank is already on the brink of closure after the Prudential Authority (PA), a division of the South African Reserve Bank tasked with monitoring banks, applied to…

Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Member of Parliament Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has sang South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s praises, saying he is committed to “genuine transformation”.  In a tweet published on his X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday, February 3, Ndlozi stated that Ramaphosa is “not what we have been told he is,” asserting that the president is committed to genuine transformation in South Africa.  “This man is not what we have been told he is. He is truly up to…

The expropriation bill, which President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law on Thursday, has pitted the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI), Dean Macpherson, against his deputy, Sihle Zikalala. This was after the two expressed contradictory views on X (Twitter) today, 24 January 2025, with Mcpherson dismissing Zikalala’s eagerness to implement the expropriation law as nothing more than a personal “opinion.” The Expropriation Act is the latest policy battleground between the DA and the ANC, Mcpherson and Zikalala’s political homes,…

The Head of the Hawks, Lt Godfrey Lebeya, has publicly confirmed that the fraud and corruption investigation against Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, the embattled Minister in the Presidency, is almost done. Lebeya said the Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are currently tying up some loose ends in the high-profile corruption case involving Ntshavheni, a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC).  He was speaking to SABC News earlier on Thursday (January 23) about their investigation into Ntshavheni’s alleged corruption…

The case brought by former ANC MP Boy Mamabolo against the party for allegedly moving him down the parliamentary list ahead of the May 29 elections last year would be heard by the Johannesburg High Court next week Monday. In his papers, Mamabolo argues that he was removed from number 5 to 22 on the Limpopo Province to National list after he alleged that did not submit a Matric certificate. He launched the court case so that he could be…

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in KwaZulu-Natal says the highly publicised intention to close down the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Newcastle and elsewhere is a ploy to force the government to pour in public money to save the company. According to Edwin Mkhize, the provincial secretary of COSATU in the province, the company is exploiting the reality that South Africa is facing a high unemployment rate and the government would frantically do anything to save jobs. Mkhize…

The provincial executive committees (PEC) of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng have survived the axe – at least for a week. The party’s Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula announced on Monday (January 20) that the national executive committee (NEC) meeting over the weekend decided that the party’s top seven officials will have to come up with a framework on how to reconfigure the PECs of the two key provinces. Panyaza Lesufi and Siboniso Duma lead the two ANC provinces as…

South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile, who has recently shared one of his notable foreign policy perspectives, says his country would not abandon the Palestinian cause and ignore the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appease the US.   Mashatile, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s deputy in the country’s governing African National Congress (ANC), insists that the US understands that while Pretoria is one of Washington’s biggest trading partners, the two will not agree on everything.…