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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Setumo Stone |Queenin Masuabi |Mawande AmaShabalala
Tensions within President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government of national unity (GNU) have escalated sharply, with partners voicing mounting frustrations over the DA’s governance approach, leading to calls for structural reforms and potential reconfigurations of the multiparty coalition government.
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3 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Queenin Masuabi |Mawande AmaShabalala
The ANC’s highest decision-making body, the NEC, has resolved to employ quiet diplomacy in the ongoing tensions with the United States. This is according to NEC leaders who told Sunday World about the discussions in their meeting at the Birchwood Hotel, Boksburg, this weekend. Diplomatic ties between the two nations have been rocked by ructions following US President Donald Trump opposition to the Expropriation Act.
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3 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Queenin Masuabi |Mawande AmaShabalala
The ANC and DA have had a series of discussions regarding the much-talked-about national budget. However these talks collapsed on Friday afternoon when the two parties could not reach a compromise. The failed talks do not appear to be the only strategy for the ANC though. The founding member of the government of national unity (GNU) is also courting the EFF and MK Party. All of this work is behind the scenes to ensure that the budget gets the necessary votes in the National Assembly.
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2 months ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Queenin Masuabi |Mawande AmaShabalala
Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki stunned the party’s national executive committee (NEC) members when he questioned the existence of the trial that resulted in his successor Jacob Zuma being convicted and tossed into Robben Island as a political prisoner. Mbeki, who stopped short of calling Zuma a spy, dropped the bombshell in the NEC meeting held at Birchwood Hotel in Gauteng a few weeks ago to discuss the poor electoral showing of the ANC in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sundayworld.co.za | Mawande AmaShabalala
The justice system in South Africa has eyes, and this is something seasoned Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC learnt the hard way. Sikhakhane, in his memoir titled Odyssey of Liberation, details how taking a brief to represent former head of state Jacob Zuma became his worst nightmare. According to him, the courts in this country dislike Zuma and everyone who represents him in his many cases. Suffered because he dared to represent ZumaAnd Sikhakhane was not spared when he also represented Zuma.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
sundayworld.co.za | Mawande AmaShabalala
Jacob Zuma, the president of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), has threatened to take legal action against Fikile Mbalula, the head of the ANC administration, unless he reinstates his ANC membership. This comes after Zuma’s membership was revoked last year after he founded the MKP in December 2023 and removed 15% of the ANC’s support in the national and provincial elections held on May 29, 2024.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
sundayworld.co.za | Mawande AmaShabalala
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa stunned KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive committee (PEC) members when he angrily rejected and recalled a report tabled by provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo on why ANC was clobbered in the May 29 elections. Sunday World has been reliably informed that Ramaphosa could not believe his ears when Mtolo blamed the electoral losses of the May 29 elections in the province on the popularity of MK Party leader Jacob Zuma.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
sundayworld.co.za | Mawande AmaShabalala
Former Eskom executive Matshela Koko has approached the Pretoria High Court to overturn a court order obtained by Eskom and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) that declared unlawful the tender that was awarded to multinational company ABB. The R1-billion contract, which involved the supply and installation of control and instrumentation systems at the Kusile Power Station, was set aside in April.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
sundayworld.co.za | Mawande AmaShabalala
If black people in South Africa are pinning their hopes on politicians to advance their common interests, that hope is grossly misplaced because it will never happen. As an abeNguni idiom goes, “ayisekho inkukhu, mawachithwe lamanzi”. Politics, or shall I say black people’s politics, much like religion and sport for that matter, thrives on division. It is from this division that black politicians draw their currency and sustain their political careers, anchored on petty politicking and insults.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
sundayworld.co.za | Mawande AmaShabalala
NPA boss Shamila Batohi was on Tuesday grilled about, among other things, the ineffectiveness of the prosecuting authority to successfully prosecute big fish in financial crimes. She and her SIU and Hawks counterparts were appearing before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) portfolio committee in parliament. Batohi hopped from one excuse to the next about why the NPA was failing under her stewardship.
