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Mbalula and Gungubele take flak at top-level ANC meeting (opens the original)
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A marathon ANC meeting lasting almost 10 hours last week saw party secretary-general Fikile Mbalula and national executive committee (NEC) member Mondli Gungubele come under fire for their recent public comments. The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) met last week on Monday to discuss the candidates’ list registration chaos that left the party fielding no candidates in some municipalities in the Eastern Cape and leaving out the names of others in various parts of the country. But the meetin
Court backs Bapedi Kingdom in Limpopo mining clampdown (opens the original)
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The Bapedi Royal House in Sekhukhune, Limpopo, has obtained a court order against the department of mineral resources for failing to stop illegal mining activity. The court order also effectively suspends the mining licence, giving the Bapedi Kingdom full powers to stop the zama zamas from operating in the area and to rehabilitate the site. Following the court order, the royal house moved to secure the mine, bringing in private security and police, who for the past few weeks have been operating
Cosatu vows to reconvene congress within 30 days, even if it’s under a tent (opens the original)
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The Cosatu leadership is adamant that it will be able to reconvene its collapsed congress within the prescribed 30 days, even if it means meeting under a tent. The federation’s leadership, led by its president, Zingiswa Losi, briefed the media on Wednesday, a day after it adjourned its congress at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, after it failed to kick off after two days. It’s 1,820 delegates were sent home after divisions among its leadership reached breaking point on several issues
Cosatu in chaos: power struggle forces congress to collapse (opens the original)
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Cosatu’s congress failed to get off the ground this week, with 1,820 delegates sent home after a bitter leadership fight brought the federation to a standstill. The congress was adjourned after two days of deadlock over the suspension of Cosatu’s first deputy president, Mike Shingange, by Nehawu on the eve of the gathering. Shingange was suspended on Saturday after defying an instruction from the union not to sign his nomination form, which would have prevented him from contesting for the Cosatu
ANC’s ‘mea culpa’ on election candidates debacle (opens the original)
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A confidential ANC report has laid bare the internal party weaknesses that led to chaos in the registration of candidates for the municipal elections and the omission of 51 mayoral candidates from the lists submitted to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC). Although the ANC has taken the IEC to the Electoral Court in a bid to compel it to accept some of the missing candidates, blaming a “technical glitch” on the part of the commission, its internal report admits some of the major probl
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