Politics

Job Mokgoro living on borrowed time as North West premier

North West Premier Job Mokgoro has already started packing up his office as the ANC is expected to announce a new premier soon.

It’s official: Zambian electoral commission declares Hichilema winner over Lungu

Zambia's electoral commission has confirmed that opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema has won last week’s presidential election.

Zambia’s Lungu in secret talks about handing over power after election defeat

Zambian President Edgar Lungu was in secret talks this weekend about handing over power after losing the election.

Afghan president flees country as Taliban seizes power

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Taliban militants entered Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

Intelligence report blames police for Sindiso Magaqa’s death

A shocking intelligence report has revealed that police resources were used in the slaying of ANC councillor Sindiso Magaqa in 2017.

Will Duduzane be the first of Zuma’s children to succeed in politics?

In 2017, Jacob Zuma’s first son Edward contested the position of ANC branch chairperson in Nkandla. He lost.

Jacob Zuma is still in hospital and he’ll be there for a while

Former president Jacob Zuma underwent a surgical procedure on Saturday and will remain in hospital as more procedures are scheduled for the next coming days.

Stress of JZ’s arrest worsens maKhumalo’s ailing health

As Jacob Zuma remains in a military hospital, his wife of close to five decades, Sizakele, is also not well.

Zondo ends with a bombshell: how the State shut down an investigation into the private army suspected of fomenting the July insurrection

An investigation into former President Jacob Zuma’s armed private intelligence unit was shut down by former State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo and the retired head of domestic intelligence Mahlodi Sam Muofhe in March this year.

ZAMBIA ON A KNIFE EDGE

Zambians attacked cars believed to be carrying rigged ballots, the military took to the streets and the government shut down internet access as polls closed in the country’s closely contested national elections on Thursday evening.

THE ZULU HEIR B ‘N B

King Misuzulu kaZwelithini, King of the Zulu Nation, is homeless and living in a rented bed and breakfast because no official residence is ready for him.

Municipality owes Eskom five billion rand – but gave its officials a R400,000 pay increase

While the Emalahleni Municipality in Mpumalanga owes Eskom R5 billion, six of its officials have each given themselves pay increases of R400,000 a year.

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