Author: Mawande Amashabalala

Politics

How Gwede Mantashe won the anti-coal energy wars, for now

ANC national chairperson and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has survived one of the strongest lobbies in his political life, that of the renewable... Read more.
Soccer, Sports

PSL now a certified farmer’s league

The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is showing all the hallmarks of becoming a farmer’s league. What an abomination. One of the signs of a farmer’s league is when... Read more.
News

Cash-strapped Amatola Water defends board’s spending practices

The board of troubled state-owned Amatola Water has racked up R4-million in claims after just seven months in office as an interim authority. Pam Yako, the interim... Read more.
News

Holomisa blasts government for collapsing homeland infrastructure

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa is rallying the government and Eastern Cape kings to come up with solutions to arrest the decay of infrastructure built by the homeland... Read more.
Jacob Zuma car crash: MK Party suspects foul play
Politics

Zuma among ANC leaders to be hauled over the coals

All ANC leaders who are implicated in the state capture report and who failed to appear before the integrity commission will be subjected to disciplinary action.... Read more.
Power system to improve after state buys Medupi second-hand part
News

Ramokgopa’s plan gets NEC’s nod, but he must remain ‘a project manager’

Under-siege Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho “Sputla” Ramokgopa is breathing a sigh of relief, for now, after the ANC national executive committee (NEC) yesterday... Read more.
Ramaphosa and Phala Phala
Politics

‘President must intervene and end territorial fight’

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to lay down the law to end the ongoing territorial tussle in his cabinet over Electricity... Read more.