President Cyril Ramaphosa has found himself in another dilemma after Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF spokesperson, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, threatened to reveal “a bombshell” regarding a recent visit by an ANC delegation to Zimbabwe. According to sources within Zanu-PF, there is a growing belief inside the party that Ramaphosa has been secretly funding opposition […]
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has waded into a potentially explosive diplomatic tiff between Zanu PF and the ANC over threats by Zanu PF to “leak a bombshell” that would expose and embarrass South Africa’s ruling party. Ramaphosa has come out guns blazing, daring Zanu PF’s director of information Tafadzwa […]
The speaker of South Africa’s lower house of parliament has authorised a vote on a motion of no-confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa, a parliamentary official said on Thursday. The request for the vote was made by a small political party, the African Transformation Movement (ATM), which has only two seats […]
There is a real fear in the ANC that the ruling party could lose power in the general elections of 2024 should it continue on its current path of destruction. Allegations of corruption against its leaders and members, loss of credibility due to bad performance in service delivery and the […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has gone into quarantine after a guest at a charity dinner he attended tested positive for Covid-19, his office said on Wednesday. Africa’s most advanced economy has been the continent’s worst hit, with more than 700,000 coronavirus infections and nearly 20,000 deaths, but new cases […]
The SA president must be aware that the adverse effects Zimbabwe’s implosion has had on SA will escalate By Sarah Hudleston SA has much to answer for the sorry state Zimbabwe is in. Back in 2002, so much was riding on the Movement for Democratic Change( MDC) led by the […]
By Tinashe Kairiza and Andrew Kunambura Fresh details have emerged from last week’s stormy meeting between Zanu PF and South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), revealing that the two former liberation movements maintained diametrically opposed standpoints on how to address Zimbabwe’s multifaceted political and economic problems. Though […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has dismissed prospects of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s envoys and African National Congress (ANC) delegations meeting with opposition political parties in Zimbabwe. Addressing an ordinary session of the ZANU PF politburo at the party’s headquarters in Harare on Wednesday, President Mnangagwa said those who come to […]
By Frank Chikowore Zimbabwean police on Tuesday arrested a hospitalised Member of Parliament of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance party after she failed to attend court to answer to charges that she and two others had published falsehoods concerning their alleged abduction and torture this year. The […]
By Stephen Grootes The ANC declares with depressing regularity that it is in a mortal struggle against corruption. If you listen to the top six, they are determined to turn over a new leaf, draw a line in the sand, punish the corrupt and clean up the party’s ways. If […]