Author: Kgaogelo Magolego

The DA’s 8 year grip on the now troubled City of Tshwane is finally over. This following a deal between the ANC, EFF, Action SA, ATM and several other smaller parties. These are the parties that ousted the DA’s Celliers Brink through a motion of no confidence last month. The agreement chose Action SA’s Dr Nasiphi Moya as the new mayor of the capital. Moya was acting in the position following the removal of Brink who was the DA’s 5th mayor in a period of 8 years and was in office for a little over two years. ANC national spokesperson…

ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula, has slammed the leaks that have come to characterise the ANC over the years. Mbalula briefed the media at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg just hours after his letter to Gauteng Provincial chairperson and Premier Panyaza Lesufi was leaked and circulated on social media. The leaked letter exposed a failed bid by Mbalula to reign in Lesufi whom according to internal sources easily fended off the attempt by “presenting facts”. Most embarrassing for Mbalula was the circulation o by EFF national spokesperson Sinawo Tambo, of another letter, penned by DA Chairperson of Federal…

Tensions are rising between the ANC national leadership and the party’s Gauteng chapter following a failed attempt to reign the province’s chairperson Panyaza Lesufi who is also the Premier. Lesufi was summoned to the party’s Johannesburg headquarters Luthuli House to explain his public comments about the so-called Government of National Unity which Secretary General Fikile Mbalula implied in a leaked letter to Lesufi that had brought the party into disrepute and undermined the National Executive Committee decision that led to the establishment of the coalition government that includes right wing elements such as the Democratic Alliance and the Freedom Front Plus.…

uMkhonto Wesizwe Party has withdrawn the nomination of its Deputy President Dr John Hlophe as its representative on the Judicial Services Commission. Hlophe’s withdrawal follows failure by MKP to overturn a court decision instigated by the DA effectively barring him from serving in the JSE or have the body postpone interviews of candidates for various judicial positions which started on Monday In Johannesburg. Hlophe and MKP had requested the body to halt the interviews in order to allow him time to deal with the legal challenge by the DA but the request was rejected with the JSC deciding through a…

South Africa has become a sought after partner on the global stage with many countries competing for ties with the country that is the last on the African continent to be liberated.Vietnam has become the latest to court Pretoria  and this week a large team of the senior leadership of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam coming into the country to lobby the ANC with whom they have had fraternal relations build on resistance resistance politics. The ANC regards the Communist Party of Vietnam as a long time ally having assisted in the resistance against apartheid.The Vietnamese delegation led by…

Black residents and business owners in Hartbeestpoort have warned of possible retaliation against alleged white residents who are trying to force them out of the area through violent attacks including the burning of their businesses. On Friday, residents and business people marched to several places including the local Crocodile mine and police station demanding an end to racism as well as for Africans to be included in the town’s lucrative economy spurred by tourism with the Hartbeestpoort Dam as the main attraction. The latest incident was the burning down of the resort Bubbles owned by businessman Thabiso Mathibedi who since…

The ANC is set to reclaim power in the City of Tshwane following the removal of Cilliers Brink as mayor which effectively ousted the metro’s Democratic Alliance led coalition government. Councillors voted overwhelmingly for Brink’s removal in a motion of no confidence opposed only by the DA, Freedom Front Plus and ACDP on Thursday. The motion of no confidence against unified parties that identify as “progressive” with occasional singing and embracing of each other during the proceedings. “We take serious exception to the consistent labelling of this motion as an ANC motion. This is a motion of the people of…

The ANC’s allies in the so called tripartite alliance have criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for not acting against defiant basic education minister Siviwe Rwarwube who refused to attend the signing ceremony for the Bella Bill citing her party’s opposition to parts of it. In retaliation, the biggest teacher union, SADTU, a dominant affiliate in Cosatu has snubbed the minister by not inviting her to its national conference underway in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni. Rwarwube is the first minister in the education portfolio to be snubbed by the union since the dawn of democracy and now the alliance partners want her taken to…

A war of words continues between the Democratic Alliance and Action SA in what has become the messiest break-up in South African politics. In the latest the two have accused each other of negotiating deals with the ANC behind the other’s back leading to seemingly irreconcilable differences with a motion of no confidence against Mayor Celliers Brink ( of the DA) scheduled for next week thursday which may seel the fate of the so-called “multi-party coalition”. Brink, who has vowed to not go down without a fight, briefed the media at the municipal offices in Pretoria on Thursday where he was…

The death of former Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan brought a moment of reflection for the ANC which has been experiencing electoral decline and lost its parliamentary majority for the first time during the May 29 National and Provincial Elections. The ANC in Gauteng held a memorial service for Gordhan in Johannesburg on Tuesday where speakers, one after the other, vowed to do the part to rescucitate the ailing liberation movement. “This GNU is not the final stop, its halfway stop, the final stop is still coming and that is when we reclaim power in 2029,” said Provincial chairperson Panyaza…