ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile’s strategy of playing both factions in the ruling party is about to cost him a seat in the influential ANC top six.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his staunch allies emerged all smiles from the tense one-day special ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Friday.
Many believe that 2022 has been a dismal year, what with war in Ukraine and Ethiopia, the worst inflation in 40 years, a Covid pandemic that still lingers and kills, and Stage 6 loadshedding.
She was allegedly beaten with a spade by a relative and her head was nearly severed. Her family, in the small town of Alexandria in the Eastern Cape, had to pick up the broken bits of the five-year-old girl's skull.
The coalition government in the Free State’s Maluti-a-Phofung local municipality is close to collapse but Moeketsi Lebesa, the president of the Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa (DPSA), has a plan to save it.