Author: Mawande AmaShabalala

News

Tolashe’s ex-helper refuses coercion to fight minister in leaked voice note

Social development minister Sisisi Tolashe on Wednesday dropped a bombshell before parliament’s portfolio committee of her former domestic worker refusing... Read more.
Mbalula defends Ramaphosa
Big Reads, Politics

Fikile Mbalula’s legal retreat exposes crisis of judgment in ANC engine room

The ANC and its secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, have filed a formal notice to withdraw from appealing the judgment that halted the Eastern Cape ANC provincial... Read more.
News

Fikile Mbalula, Solly Mapaila in war of words as ANC, SACP alliance crumbles

The relationship between the ANC and the SACP can be characterised as one that is a state of critical and unstable. Or better yet in marriage terms, it could be... Read more.
News

Julius Malema lawyers have their hands full in dramatic Wednesday

EFF leader Julius Malema’s legal representatives had their hands full on Wednesday dealing with two separate legal issues, both of which coincidentally involving... Read more.
Mapaila in trouble with taxman
Politics

ANC versus SACP war reaches boiling point

The cold war between the ANC and its alliance partner the SACP has reached boiling point, with the two more-than-a-century-old organisations billed to host two separate... Read more.
ANC mayoral candidates
Politics

News Analysis | Why ANC’s widening of the net is bound to backfire

The ANC recently announced that it will, for the first time since being voted into power in 1994, go outside its ranks to look for credible and “clean”... Read more.
Mabuyane guns for Malema
Big Reads, Politics

BREAKING | Oscar Mabuyane to sue Julius Malema for defamation

Eastern Cape Premier and ANC provincial chairperson Oscar Mabuyane has briefed his lawyers to prepare papers in pursuit of mounting a defamation lawsuit against... Read more.
Mbalula warns against ANC, SACP attacking each other
Big Reads, Politics

BREAKING | ANC crisis deepens as court told ‘raw membership data’ might not exist

The ANC is now confronting a new crisis that cuts to the core of political legitimacy. In a dramatic escalation of the litigation that halted the ANC’s Eastern... Read more.
ANC secretary general, Fikile Mbalula gives West Rand a green light to go ahead with the regional conference
News

Fikile Mbalula: I’m impressed Julius Malema has seen new Jerusalem

EFF leader Julius Malema has seen the new Jerusalem; this is according to ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula, who lauded the red beret bridage leader’s call... Read more.
Politics

Tonny Rachoene appointed ANC Limpopo spin doctor

Limpopo MEC for Public Works, Roads, and Infrastructure, Tonny Rachoene, has been appointed as the provincial spokesperson of the ANC in Limpopo. The appointment... Read more.