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EFF leader Julius Malema says Thabo Mbeki had no moral authority to call out Ramaphosa’s leadership failures.Image: Alaister Russell/The Sunday Times

Mbeki has no moral authority to call out Ramaphosa, says Malema

EFF leader Julius Malema is the latest to weigh in on former president Thabo Mbeki’s criticism of President Cyril Ramaphosa, claiming he has no moral authority to call him out. Speaking during a memorial service for late ANC stalwart…

People in Mvezo, Nelson Mandela’s birth place, walk to the Mbhashe river to wash their clothes. The village has never had running water and depends on the river or rain water.Image: Lulamile Feni

Mandela family footed the bill for Qunu borehole: Senzo Mchunu

Former president Nelson Mandela’s family donated the borehole that supplies water to Lwalweni village in Qunu, but this created a complication that led to the water being temporarily cut off earlier this year. Water and sanitation…

RET Forces chair Nkosentsha Shezi says former president Jacob Zuma’s appeal against the high court decision for him to return to jail may avert similar unrest to that which gripped the country in July. File photo.Image: Jeff Wicks

Zuma’s appeal ‘may avert what we saw in July’ — RET faction chairperson

Former president Jacob Zuma’s appeal against the Gauteng high court decision for him to return to jail may avert similar unrest to that which gripped the country in July. This is according to ANC member and chairperson of the Radical…

Former president Jacob Zuma.Image: Sandile Ndlovu

ConCourt judgment ‘judicially emotional and not consistent with our constitution’: Zuma Foundation

Former president Jacob Zuma has criticised the Constitutional Court judgment that handed him a 15-month jail sentence for contempt, saying it was “judicially emotional and not consistent with our constitution”. In a statement released…

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo.Image: GCIS

State capture commission calls for Jacob Zuma to be jailed for two years

The state capture commission has asked that former president Jacob Zuma be committed to two years in prison for contempt of court. This followed Zuma’s failure to turn up at the commission last week despite a summons and an order from the…

Former political allies Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma in October 2009. The EFF leader and former president are due to meet today. Archive imageImage: Mlondolozi Mbolo

Jacob Zuma orders ANCYL not to block Julius Malema from Nkandla

Tea for two scheduled to take place today Former president Jacob Zuma is said to have instructed members of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in KwaZulu-Natal not to prevent EFF leader Julius Malema from entering his Nkandla homestead,…

Former president Jacob Zuma chats to his daughter Thuthukile Zuma at an ANCYL gathering in Sophiatown in 2019.Image: Sebabatso Mosamo/Sunday Times

Jacob & Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s daughter Thuthukile gets nod as youth agency board takes shape

Former president Jacob Zuma’s daughter Thuthukile has made the cut to serve on the board of the National Youth Development Agency. Her mother is co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Thuthukile is…