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Zuma pledges no âtroubleâ at polls but still insists MK was robbed in 2024 (opens the original)
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Jacob Zuma has pledged that the MK party will avoid trouble and abide by the rules of the upcoming local elections, but says the party remains convinced it was robbed in 2024 general elections. On Friday, the Electoral Court dismissed the partyâs attempt to challenge those elections. While vowing that party members would conduct themselves in a manner conducive to free and fair elections, the former SA president and leader of uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party, Jacob Zuma, still maintains that his pa
Hill-Lewis links Ekurhuleni killings to DAâs campaign to empower âtrustworthyâ metro cops (opens the original)
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The DA has offered a R500,000 award for information on the women killed in Ekurhuleni, but in the lead-up to the local government elections, DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has also used the killings to make a broader argument about policing powers and the state of the EMPD. The Democratic Alliance has put crime and the collapse of policing at the centre of its campaign to take control of Ekurhuleni, promising to overhaul the metro police, increase visibility in crime hotspots and subject senior of
ANC election-list war heats up as Eastern Cape secretary threatens to sue Fikile Mbalula (opens the original)
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Eastern Cape ANC secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi is threatening legal action against Fikile Mbalula, accusing the secretary-general of falsely blaming him for the partyâs candidate-list failures. The fallout from the ANCâs candidate-list blunder has escalated into a clash between the partyâs secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, and its Eastern Cape secretary, Lulama Ngcukayitobi, who is threatening to sue Mbalula for defamation for claiming that he was responsible for the provinceâs failure
IEC set to prepare ballots as ANC faces exclusion in six municipalities (opens the original)
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The IEC has finalised the candidates who will contest the 4 November local government elections as the ANC faces being completely shut out in two municipalities and affected in four others. The commission says electoral deadlines cannot be bent to accommodate parties that fail to complete the required process. The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has finalised the list of candidates who will contest the 4 November local government elections, leaving the ANC to face the consequences of
Mbalula, Dlamini Zuma legal teams clash in court over vote-buying claims (opens the original)
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An ANC delegate who claims he witnessed Fikile Mbalula distributing money to delegates at the 2022 Nasrec conference has emerged at the centre of the legal battle between Fikile Mbalula and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. A fierce legal battle between ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) member Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma played out in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 15 September. Mbalula is suing Dlamini Zuma for defamation after she claimed, dur
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