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…

Despite facing serious charges that could see her imprisoned for years, Duduzile Zuma did not hold back in court while applying for bail, accusing the state of abusing the justice system to settle political scores. Duduzile said that the case against her, which stemmed from her tweets during the July 2021 unrest, is politically motivated and aimed at targeting her father, former President Jacob Zuma, who now leads the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party, a splinter party of the ANC. These…

Almost four years after the devastating July 2021 unrest that left over 300 people dead and businesses looted and torched in KwaZulu and Gauteng, one of the prominent people accused of inciting violence will appear in court. Duduzile Zuma, former President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, will appear in the Durban Magistrate Court on Thursday this week. Duduzile and her twin brother Duduzane are now active politicians and members of the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party, founded and led by Zuma. She was…

The Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party has reinforced its parliamentary forces by bringing in former City of Joburg Speaker Colleen Makhubele and energy expert Crown Prince Adil Nchabeleng as its new Members of Parliament (MP).  The party announced their appointment late on Wednesday (January 22) and outlined its expectations from them as they assume their new roles.  Former President Jacob Zuma’s party won more than 50 seats in the May 29 2023 general elections.  They join a growing list of prominent…

Less than two months into the top job, Dr Thanti Mthanti has resigned as the Treasurer General of the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party with immediate effect. The party’s leader, former President Jacob Zuma accepted Dr Mthanthi’s departure, according to a statement released by the ANC splinter party on Friday (January 17).  Mthanti, an academic and senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town, was appointed to the position in December last year, replacing Menzi Magubane.  The MKP confirmed Dr Mthanthi’s…

The Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party has finally filled the several vacant leadership positions in the Mpumalanga province, bringing in seven provincial heavyweights to work with Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the convener. The party announced the bolstering of the province’s leadership on Thursday (January 16), saying the decision has been sanctioned by the party’s leader, former President Jacob Zuma, based on its constitution. “The MK Party has expressed its full confidence in all the new appointees. We wish the Mpumalanga Detachment well…

Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu claims he’s the party’s sole founder, and that current leader Julius Malema and others joined later. He says he conceptualised the EFF, gave it a name and party colours, and decided where its Johannesburg headquarters would be. Shivambu, who left the EFF in August 2023 amid a public fallout with Malema, was speaking at a Christmas gathering hosted by his new party, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MKP), at his home village of…

The provincial secretary of the EFF in KwaZulu-Natal has suspended his longtime personal assistant for allegedly attending the MK Party’s 1st anniversary rally in Durban on Sunday. Nkululeko Ngubane was in Nasrec attending the EFF’s National People’s Assembly, an elective conference, in Johannesburg when Siphamandla Ngcobo allegedly joined the celebrations of President Jacob Zuma’s party at the Moses Mabhida stadium. In a December 18 suspension letter sent to Ngcobo and seen by African Times, Ngubane accused his personal assistant of…

The Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is contesting another litmus test by-election in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday torn apart by two provincial factions. This is after yesterday the Electoral Court upheld the registration of Sthabiso Nkabinde as the party’s candidate for ward 2 by-election in Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg) in the province’s Midlands where the party performed well during the May 29 provincial and national elections. The troubles started when two posters of candidates emerged and were circulated to the public for support. One…

The leader of the MK Party, former President Jacob Zuma, has narrated how colonialists used coup d’etat and rebels to claw back African countries that got independence and could not be controlled. Zuma says the colonialists funded rebels to stage a coup d’etat and install governments that listened to them and implemented their agenda.  South Africa’s former president spoke in Durban on Monday night during a gala dinner hosted by the MK Party to celebrate its first anniversary. Since 1960,…