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Lizeka Tandwa is the Digital Politics Editor for TimesLIVE and the Sunday Times.

Eastern Cape ANC chair Oscar Mabuyane (left) says action must be taken against the responsible member for the list crisis, while provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi (right) says he is not to blame. Picture:

‘Anarchy’ in ANC caused ‘catastrophic’ electoral list debacle: Mabuyane

Eastern Cape ANC chair calls for tough action against those responsible as infighting erupts

  • Lizeka Tandwa
DA federal council chair Ashor Sarupen addressed the media in Johannesburg on Thursday. File photo:

Thousands expected at DA’s election manifesto ‘promise to South Africans’

The DA says it is ready to unveil what it describes as its most comprehensive local government election manifesto yet, while urging South Africans to register before the voters’ roll closes at midnight on Friday

  • Lizeka Tandwa
Julius Malema addressing EFF supporters at Wonderkop in the North West on Workers’ Day. File picture:

EFF deploys top brass to key metros as Malema unveils mayoral candidates

Other strategic deployments include Mkhululi Dlepu for Buffalo City, with national spokesperson Sinawo Thambo selected to lead the party in Nelson Mandela Bay.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
Mamoloko Kubayi has suggested that Israel played a role in the June 30 March and March protests, saying the Jewish state's goal is to have the genocide case brought against it by South Africa in the ICJ struck from the roll.

‘Foreign entities stoking unrest in SA’

Justice minister, the chair of cabinet committee on migration, believes Israel has a hand on March on March on protests.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
Yusuf Cassim, DA’s chairperson in the Eastern Cape, is in line to be promoted to be appointed in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s executive as the deputy minister of Higher Education and Training. SUPPLIED

‘I’m not here to cut ribbons’: new deputy minister Cassim vows to shake up troubled higher education sector

Yusuf Cassim says stabilising NSFAS and Setas will be among his priorities

  • Lizeka Tandwa
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing Parliament on the migration crisis gripping South Africa.

Steenhuisen the biggest loser as Ramaphosa reshuffles cabinet

Willie Aucamp to replace John Steenhuisen as minister of agriculture, with a mandate to address legal issues related to foot-and-mouth disease

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Kgothatso Madisa
Malawians in Durban waiting for transport to return home. Photo: SANDILE NDLOVU

‘Nobody saw it coming’: eThekwini details challenges of running a migrant transit camp

The eThekwini municipality has revealed it was unprepared for the scale of the humanitarian operation at Durban’s Drive-In transit camp.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Thabo Tshabalala
Malawians, with their possessions, wait outside Sherwood Hall in Durban to be deported to their home country to escape anti-immigrant threats.

WATCH | KZN races to clear Durban Drive-In camp as June 30 anti-immigrant protests loom

The KwaZulu-Natal government is scrambling to clear thousands of undocumented Malawians from Durban’s Drive-In camp ahead of planned anti-immigrant marches expected to sweep across the province on Monday and Tuesday.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Thabo Tshabalala
KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli says law enforcement agencies in the province are ready and will not allow a repeat of the 2021 July unrest. File picture:

Ntuli warns political parties against exploiting June 30 march as KZN braces for anti-illegal migrant protests

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli has warned political parties against exploiting Tuesday’s planned anti-undocumented migrant marches

  • Lizeka Tandwa
Malawian nationals gather near North Beach in Durban as they prepare to return to their home country after weeks of fear, uncertainty and displacement. Photo: SANDILE NDLOVU

WATCH | June 30: ‘We’ll be ready this time’

South Africa is leaving nothing to chance in the countdown to the June 30 “deadline” set by campaign organisers for illegal immigrants to leave the country, vowing that the riots that rocked the country in July 2021 will not be repeated.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Thabo Mokone
  • Yasantha Naidoo
  • Kgothatso Madisa
Spokes­per­son Prince Thu­lani Zulu sought to ease ten­sions, mak­ing it clear that the Zulu mon­arch had neither called for nor endorsed the marches. Picture:

Immigration marches not a Zulu campaign, says king

King Mis­u­zulu kaZwe­l­ith­ini fully sup­ports the con­sti­tu­tional right of cit­izens to protest but would never con­done viol­ence or attacks on any indi­vidual

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Thabo Mokone
  • Yasantha Naidoo
  • Kgothatso Madisa
Impeachment committee chair Makashule Gana in Parliament.

Impeachment committee urged to oppose Ramaphosa’s bid to halt inquiry

The impeachment process is a constitutional obligation to be carried out without delay

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The Sunday Times understands that Ramaphosa, in his capacity as ANC president, called a last-minute meeting of the party’s Top Seven officials on Wednesday to discuss names and positions the ANC would want him to change. File photo

Ramaphosa calls urgent Top Seven meeting as reshuffle looms

It is not clear if Ramaphosa will announce Tolashe’s replacement this week, or if he will wait for next week to also include the changes proposed by Hill-Lewis

  • Kgothatso Madisa
  • Thabo Mokone
  • Lizeka Tandwa
The pres­id­ent vs speaker stan­doff is unpre­ced­en­ted and is fur­ther com­plic­ated by the fact that the ANC no longer has an abso­lute major­ity in par­lia­ment to ensure it gets its way. Picture:

Constitution vs comrades? Phala Phala sparks Ramaphosa-Didiza showdown

Is there a political and legal showdown looming between President Cyril Ramaphosa and the woman tasked with protecting parliament’s institutional integrity?

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  • Thabo Mokone
Rise Mzansi leader Makashule Gana. File photo:

Rise Mzansi leader Makashule Gana elected to lead Phala Phala impeachment committee

ANC, PA and DA unite behind Rise Mzansi leader to chair impeachment MPs

  • Lizeka Tandwa