The Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have begun a probe into the circumstances around the death in 1967 of ANC leader Albert Luthuli.
Luthuli, who had been banned from addressing public gatherings and placed under house arrest by the apartheid regime, died after being hit by a train near his home in Groutville, near KwaDukuza on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, on July 21 1967.
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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane said on Thursday that the African National Congress (ANC) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Nelson Mandela Bay were in an alliance which hindered service delivery to the poor and that the parties intentionally collapsed the meeting because they realised they were outnumbered.
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The special council meeting to hear the six motions brought by the opposition, including the vote of no confidence against Mayor Athol Trollip, collapsed on Thursday morning.
Speaker Jonathan Lawack adjourned the meeting after council erupted into chaos following an altercation between EFF leader Zilindile Vena and member of the mayoral committee for roads and transport Rano Kayser
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The DA has asked the Public Protector to investigate RDP contracts in the Free State awarded to a company in which the daughter of outgoing premier Ace Magashule owns a stake.
The contracts were awarded to the company by the provincial Department of Human Settlements after Magashule became involved in a process that resulted in a rival contractor being booted off the project
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EFF leader Julius Malema says Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip will not finish his five year term.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has vowed to remove the mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Athol Trollip before the end of his term.
Malema told hundreds of EFF supporters who attended the party’s rally on Wednesday, a day prior to the voting on a no-confidence against Trollip which was postponed to a future date
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For too long the media and the commentariat have indulged too kindly Malema’s various poisonous prejudices.
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AfriForum on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the jail term given to convicted racist Vicki Momberg by the Randburg Magistrate’s Court.
Momberg will effectively spend two years behind bars as one year of her three-year sentence was suspended on condition that she is not found guilty of committing a similar offence in the next three years.
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Former ANC MP, Vytjie Mentor, may have just discovered another Free State corruption scandal. Of course it involves Ace Magashule.
Vytjie Mentor is a former ANC MP who is like a fountain and sometimes overflows with party secrets. This time, Mentor claims that the Free State government spends millions on a farewell party for former Prime Minister Ace Magashule.
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CAPE TOWN – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malemahas told supporters that the red berets will not stop until Athol Trollip is removed as Nelson Mandela Bay mayor.
Malema is addressing a rally in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth on Wednesday evening, ahead of Thursday’s motion of no confidence debate
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The power utility had requested a 30% hike as part of its plan to recover tens of billions of rands lost to coal procurement, as well as the lower than expected electricity sales between 2014 and 2017, which some have labelled as the “Gupta years”.
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The Democratic Alliance has yet to find a member to replace the panellist who recused himself from the disciplinary panel that would hear the proceedings into Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille’s conduct.
DA federal executive chair James Selfe said that a panellist to replace Pogiso Monchusi, a councillor from………….
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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) are preparing to square off in Port Elizabeth by hosting rallies a day before the EFF’s motion of no confidence in Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Athol Trollip.
EFF leader Julius Malema is expected to address EFF supporters at the Nangoza Jebe Hall in New Brighton at………..
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Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor may have just dropped another Free State corruption bombshell. Of course, it involves Ace Magashule.
Vytjie Mentor is a former ANC MP who can sometimes seem like a fountain of party secrets that has no tap to turn off. This time, Mentor is claiming that the Free State government will spend tens of millions on a “farewell party” for former premier Ace Magashule.
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The biggest nail in the coffin of the multiculturalist New South Africa forced through by Mandela, De Klerk and Ramaphosa in 1994, is the fundamental irreconcilables in terms of culture and behaviour between people of a Western orientation, and people of an African orientation.
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Athol Trollip is facing a motion of no-confidence intended to remove him as mayor. Trollip became Mayor in 2016 when the DA formed a coalition with the EFF to take Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Council away from the ANC.
The coalition fell apart in the meantime and the former coalition partner is now tabling the motion against Trollip. This means that Nelson Mandela Bay will probably be returned to the ANC.