Several senior Eastern Cape ANC MPLs will not return to the legislature after being left off the party’s provincial candidate list for the 2024 general election. The IEC released the final candidate lists for parliament and the nine provincial legislatures on Wednesday. Seasoned politicians who did not make the cut include former health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) provincial chair Mxolisi Dimaza, transport portfolio committee chair Xolani Malamlela and .
Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku says the suspension of her graduation by the University of Fort Hare in 2023 was a deliberate attempt by the institution to ruin her political career, resulting in severe reputational damage. The suspension has since been lifted by the university amid a court battle, which she won earlier in 2024.
Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku is going ahead with her court case against the University of Fort Hare despite the university clearing her to graduate.Faku scored a major victory on Monday when the university’s lawyers wrote to her apologising and assuring her that she would finally be awarded her law degree this year.
Buffalo City Metro law enforcement had to defuse tensions after pandemonium broke out at the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) provincial conference at the East London City Hall at the weekend.
The ANC’s alliance partners in the Eastern Cape have said they will support the party in the 2024 general elections but have raised a list of concerns they say it needs to pay attention to. Provincial leaders of the alliance said at the weekend that the ANC could no longer ignore the fact that the majority of the people were still living below the poverty line 29 years after SA’s first democratic elections.