A leaked letter informing President Cyril Ramaphosa of his suspension — purporting to be coming from suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule’s office — has no consequence, party national chair Gwede Mantashe said. Mantashe said that even if the letter was authentic, Magashule had no powers to suspend Ramaphosa. “Decisions in the […]
By Ferial Haffajee By the end of March, it will be D-Day for the party’s structures to report back on a set of guidelines to decide how cadres caught in allegations of malfeasance should step aside from their roles. In the anniversary month of Covid-19’s first arrival on South African […]
South Africa is to embark on one of the most ambitious vaccination campaigns in its history, confirmed President Cyril Ramaphosa. He is also the current chair of the African Union (AU) and is being more vocal about what he calls creeping “vaccine nationalism” on the international scene. South Africa has […]
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 […]