The African National Congress prides itself as a democratic organisation. Ziwaphi-The New Era investigation discovered that the organisation’s constitution doesn’t always apply to its blue-eyed boys. At least, two significant occurrences in the organisation’s recent history in Mpumalanga province have ...

  When Mpumalanga premier, Refilwe Mtshweni, unveiled the province’s first Madiba statue, I received a Whatsapp message accompanied by a picture: “This thing doesn’t look like Mandela”, read the message. As an artist myself, I sympathised with the sculptor, because ...

Finally the inevitable but futile exercise of “cabinet” reshuffle in Mpumalanga has happened. In two weeks, Mpumalanga premier, David Mabuza, made four changes to his executive council (also called cabinet), but as always there is unlikely going to be any ...

The back and forth between Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and the Hawks has finally come to a head with Major General Ledwaba instructing Gordhan to provide a warning statement this afternoon and Gordhan effectively saying, no. Given the protracted nature of this particular issue as ...

I stand here with honour and humility to be afforded and opportunity to debate the state of the nation as we are about to usher in our fourth democratic Parliament. Madam Speaker after the State of the Nation address, and ...

It was the battle between South Africa’s traditionalist president and its modernist finance minister that arguably led to the latter’s sacking late last year. Former Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene had focussed on governance in State Owned Enterprises and capital projects that were unaffordable ...

Sadly the fact that tinkhundla is a direct product of the evil apartheid system is entirely not entertained or rather  dismally ignored particularly by those who believed that the breakthrough in South Africa was a revolution.  The correct discourse emerging ...

I will not respond to Cde Maviyo’s confusion on the hat that he chose to respond to, because I also don’t subscribe to asking which hats people and comrades wear whenever I engage in the battle of ideas. (Ziwaphi Vol ...

Firstly I am confused which Tom Nkosi’s hat must I respond to, whether to Tom Nkosi the editor of Ziwaphi or the Tom Nkosi the leader of SACP in Phillip Radebe (Hlanzeni) and the man who has been tasked to ...

The 12th African National Congress provincial conference has come and gone, and David “The Cat” Mabuza has been reinstated – UNOPOSED. Predictably, he believes that’s a sign of unity of the organisation, but for those who have lost, even without ...