Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan has called on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack President Jacob Zuma in January. “The Ramaphosa team must take over in December‚ and in January they must tell Mr Zuma to go and live in Nkandla‚” Gordhan said on Thursday. It is the first time Gordhan has publicly called for Zuma to be sacked‚ and he also took a swipe at Zuma’s administration and backers. […]
Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa will be presenting South Africa's bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023 in London on Monday. Ramphosa is accompanied by Sports Minister Thulas Nxesi and members of the sports fraternity. South Africa is contesting for the hosting rights along with France and Ireland. President Jacob Zuma asked Ramaphosa to lead Team South Africa as he had UN and Heritage Day commitments. The country is […]
The return of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to Parliament leaves the door open for President Jacob Zuma to make an early exit from government once his successor has been elected at the ANC’s elective conference in December, party insiders say. Dlamini-Zuma is expected to be appointed to Cabinet in what would be a second reshuffle by Zuma this year, following the dramatic one in March that involved the axing of then finance […]
Former South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said he expects to be charged over an investigative unit set up when he ran the revenue service as a battle rages in the African National Congress to choose a successor to President Jacob Zuma as party leader in December. Gordhan, who was fired by Zuma in March, made his comments on Thursday, a day after a police unit known as the Hawks […]
There is a real possibility that the ANC may delay its elective conference in December - especially if the faction associated with President Jacob Zuma believes the outcome may not be in their favour, says emerging market economist Peter Attard Montalto. In a company note, issued on behalf of Japanese bank Nomura, Montalto says investors underestimate the possibility of the December conference being delayed. "We shouldn’t forget that the two […]
Men dressed in white overalls with green and yellow stripes, wearing black safety boots, and carrying their "skafting" (lunch-box) walk the dusty roads of Marikana in the North West. They return home from the Rowlands mineshaft, which belongs to platinum miner Lonmin, and where most of them are employed. It is a few kilometres from the koppie where many mine workers lost their lives on August 16, 2012. On that […]
ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has warned policy conference delegates that there will be no space for campaigning for their favoured leaders. The ANC’s 5th policy conference gets underway at Nasrec, amidst succession talk that has divided the party between the presidential campaigns of deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa and former African Union chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Both factions are expected to use the conference to gauge support ahead of the […]
South Africa and the ANC are not in "a good place", Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has conceded. Ramaphosa, who is in the running to be elected to the presidency of the ANC in December, was speaking at the party's Western Cape policy conference in Stellenbosch yesterday, convened in preparation for the party's national policy conference in Johannesburg later this month. The conference was attended by national executive committee members Pallo […]
Some of trade union federation Cosatu’s affiliates on Wednesday proposed a march to ANC headquarters Luthuli House to demand that President Jacob Zuma step down as head of state. Following discussions at Cosatu’s central committee meeting in Irene, they however decided on a march to the Union Buildings to protest against state capture instead. No date for this was decided on. “Zuma is undermining the nation,” National Union of Mineworkers' […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
