The resignation of Tshwane mayor Randall Williams has plunged the council into chaos after two meetings billed for Wednesday were abandoned at the last minute.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes that local government in the country is on its knees due to coalition governments.

Newly elected ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes a cabinet reshuffle is imminent after the party's national elective conference.

A cabinet reshuffle by president Cyril Ramaphosa is imminent after well more than a dozen ministers and deputy ministers were not voted into the governing party's decision-making body between conferences - the national executive committee (NEC) on Wednesday.

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan is among the high-profile ANC leaders who failed to make it into the party's powerful structure, the national executive committee.

Delegates at the ANC national conference have endorsed plans to do away with the department of public enterprises in favour of placing SOEs in line departments.

ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson Sboniso Duma laid down the law to delegates from the province attending the party's national conference in Johannesburg, telling them to to cease disrupting the conference if they do not want to miss out on an opportunity to deal with what he termed the weakest NEC ever.

Mkhize says after engagements with ANC branches, all indications are that he has “huge support”.

The ANC national disciplinary committee has expelled former ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus after a disciplinary hearing where he "failed to show remorse".

The Nasrec conference centre south of Johannesburg was a hive of activity on Monday as the party’s highest decision-making body between conferences met.