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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
Embattled ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has explained how the party’s own bungles resulted in it failing to register 51 of the people it had identified as its mayoral candidates for the November 4 elections.
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ANC admits to own bungles in election candidates  debacle

A report on the mess by Fikile Mbalula makes clear the party’s own officials were to blame, with Eastern Province secretary Lulama Ngcukaitobi singled out for criticism

  • Kgothatso Madisa
  • 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
Former DA leader and author Tony Leon.

DA: it’s not our job to investigate Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications

DA spokesperson Jan de Villiers says questions about Resolve Communications should be answered by the company, not the party, despite calls for an investigation

  • 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
Dina Pule sworn in as the minister of social development.

ANC veterans join backlash over Dina Pule’s cabinet return

Her return to the cabinet has also been met with harsh criticism from opposition parties, civil society organisations and organised labour

  • Kgothatso Madisa
  • 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

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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.

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  • 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 the challenge of illegal migration is not unique to his province and should not be reduced to a provincial government failure. File picture:

Ntuli says KZN government should not be blamed alone for illegal migrants crisis

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli has defended his administration against criticism over the province’s illegal migration challenges

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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

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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
Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has warned against vigilantism.

Cape Town mayor Hill-Lewis warns against anti-immigrant violence

Calls for police and broader criminal justice system to ensure the law is enforced

  • Lizeka Tandwa