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Carl Niehaus to lodge appeal against suspension from ANC
Spokesperson of the already disbanded uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans' Association (MKMVA), Carl Niehaus, insists that the actions he has been suspended for...
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Zuma supporters block police vehicle from entering Nkandla homestead
A small group of people dressed in uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) uniform have blocked a police vehicle trying to make its way into former President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead.
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ANC suspends Carl Niehaus with immediate effect
The party’s national executive committee (NEC), which held a special meeting on Monday, said that inflammatory speeches made by Carl Niehaus over the weekend while dressed in ANC regalia had brought the organisation into disrepute.
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Mabe: MKMVA's defiance aims to give an impression of a crisis within ANC
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe told Eyewitness News there was nothing new about bringing former combatants together and the decision was adopted at the ANC’s 2017 elective conference.
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MKMVA: We will form a human shield around Jacob Zuma
On Friday, MKMVA's Carl Niehaus, who has been deployed to Zuma’s Nkandla home following a NEC meeting on Thursday night, threatened that there would be instability in the country if the former leader was apprehended.
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JZ Foundation: Zuma to address the nation this weekend on his pending arrest
The Jacob Zuma Foundation said it had no knowledge of where the former president would be jailed and wouldn’t comment on whether he wanted to challenge the ConCourt sanction.
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All roads lead to Nkandla to support Jacob Zuma, says MKMVA
The most loyal of former President Jacob Zuma’s supporters have already pledged allegiance and all started to make their way to his home and in Nkandla.
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Despite COVID, MKMVA members to gather outside court to support Magashule
MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus said that crowds would gather outside the court to demonstrate even if proceedings were taking place via virtual platforms.
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Niehaus: No one can tell the MKMVA that we are disbanded
Last week, a meeting between five of the ANC’s top six with leaders from the MKMVA and rival MK National Council collapsed, after informing the two that they were being collapsed and replaced by a preparatory committee that will help them hold a joint elective conference.
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MK Council welcomes its disbandment, slams MKMVA's defiance
The two have struggled to organise a joint elective conference as per the Nasrec 2017 resolutions in order to focus their energies on the welfare of former combatants.
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ANC top 6 meeting with MKMVA, MK Council collapses over order to disband
Eyewitness News understands the meeting fell apart shortly after it started, with the association’s president, Kebby Maphatsoe, and others questioning why their structure was being disbanded.
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Maphatsoe adamant dissolution of MKMVA on cards ahead of ANC meeting
Last week, ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte announced the names of a preparatory committee that would take the MK members to their conference. She said that the disbandment was just one of the suggestions the NWC wanted the MKMVA and the MK Council to consider.
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ANC NWC appoints preparatory committee, while MKMVA left in the dark
Eyewitness News understands former generals have been roped in to help two warring factions of the ANC’s former combatants to hold a united conference in the coming months.
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ANC Integrity Commission yet to set date for Mkhize to appear
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has been marred by an irregular multimillion-rand tender awarded to a company linked to some of his close associates and his son.
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Mkhize scandal, MKMVA on agenda for ANC NWC meeting
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has been marred by an irregular multi-million rand tender awarded to a company linked to some of his close associates and his son.
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MKMVA backs Sisulu over deployment of Cuban engineers in SA
Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has come under fire for bringing the two dozen engineers in to help resolve water infrastructure issues in this country at a cost of R64 million.
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Tony Yengeni continues to cause a rift between MKMVA & MK Council
The two groupings – one led by Kebby Maphatsoe and the other made up of former generals and commanders of the ANC’s liberation army - are still not seeing eye to eye.
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Zuma supporters believe ConCourt erred, critics want accountability for contempt
Jacob Zuma’s supporters and critics made their voices heard outside the Constitutional Court while judges were remotely hearing the state capture commission’s application against the former president.
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ANC top 6 must be reprimanded over PP probe vote instruction - MKMVA
The party’s top six instructed its Members of Parliament (MPs) to vote in favour of a parliamentary motion brought forward by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to launch an inquiry into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office.
