FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY 2026, 07:31
Embattled City of Tshwane deputy mayor and finance MMC Eugene “Bonzo” Modise was re-elected as the Greater Tshwane Region chairperson in a midnight election over the weekend.
The ANC national general council has decided that SACP members should be recused from ANC election workshops and strategy meetings amid discussions on addressing differences between alliance partners.
The ANC will win back majority power, secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said as the party concluded the third day of its national general council in Boksburg on Wednesday.
The ANC intends on keeping its financial report a secret – but the party, hamstrung by a R20-million monthly salary bill, admits that its financial standing is “battered”.
ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu believes the party’s money troubles, which played out publicly when staff members held a picket at the start of its 5th national general council (NGC), show that the organisation is “poor” – not corrupt.
On the first day of the party’s national general council, chairperson Gwede Mantashe slammed Ramaphosa’s detractors and urged them to ‘say whatever you want to say here and not outside these walls’
The president also told a meeting of his ANC that criminals, corrupt careerists, extortionists and factionalists should find themselves outside of the party
Loyiso Masuku is the new chairperson of the ANC’s Greater Johannesburg region, having been elected by 184 delegates.
The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott
The suspended police minister denied that he had consulted before disbanding the political killings task team, saying his directive was a process
The United States has sent out invitations to G20 members for the first Sherpa meeting of its presidency of the forum but left out South Africa, according to the Department of International Relations.
Sources said Gwamanda had brought the motion out of anger after being dropped as a member of the mayoral committee
The ANC secretary-general said the organisation might need to reconsider the policy of allowing dual membership of both parties
The ANC’s leagues have strongly backed President Cyril Ramaphosa amid growing speculation on internal efforts to unseat him at the party’s upcoming national general council.
In a national address, Ramaphosa said South Africa would attend the 2026 summit in Miami despite the US president’s suggestions otherwise
President Cyril Ramaphosa used his address to the nation on Sunday evening to thank South Africans for showing up and standing by their country, “no matter the difficulties”.
Just two months after its formation, Floyd Shivambu’s Afrika Mayibuye Movement is grappling with upheaval as the party’s two deputy secretaries-general become the latest senior leaders to resign.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation tonight following South Africa’s hosting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit last weekend.
The DA says it has long operated under the notional protection of her father, former president Jacob Zuma, acting with impunity as a senior MK Party politician
The regional conference was initially scheduled for July but has since been postponed twice
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has issued strict instructions to three of the party’s regional structures, including the City of Johannesburg, to hold their much-delayed elective conferences by Wednesday, 3 December.