Carl Niehaus

Members of the RET grouping including people like former party member Carl Niehaus former MP Mervyn Dirks and close ally of Magashule Dakota Legoete are now all out in the cold...

ReactionsThe de facto leader of the ANC anti-Ramaphosa campaign and supporter of suspended Secretary General Ace Magashule Carl Niehaus said 'Ramaphosa must be a worried man after what happened in Sri Lanka...

On a wintry day on 13 June in Johannesburg Carl Niehaus the spokesman of the African National Congress's so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction led a delegation into the Rosebank police station in Johannesburg and laid an accusation of money-laundering kidnapping and corruption against President Cyril Ramaphosa...

His funeral on 5 September served as a rallying point for the RET faction with suspended MKMVA spokesman Carl Niehaus the only attendee not wearing military camouflage fatigues delivering the eulogy as his colleagues danced and chanted freedom songs...

Suspended ANC members Carl Niehaus former head of the party's defunct military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and Andile Lungisa from the Eastern Cape who was suspended for assaulting an opposition politician have been publicly identified as participants in the WhatsApp group which they have neither confirmed nor denied...

Other key Zuma loyalists are facing investigation including: former party chief Ace Magashule; Carl Niehaus of MK who is already facing criminal charges and suspension from the ANC; and Zandile Gumede former Mayor of eThekwini (a municipality including Durban) who is also facing corruption charges...

Thus far the only ANC voices that have come out in Magashule's favour are the pro-Zuma Carl Niehaus of the association of veterans of the ANC's armed struggle Umkhonto we Sizwe and the maverick Mayor of Ekurhuleni south of Johannesburg Mzwandile Masina...

Ahead of the NEC meeting Ramaphosa's accusers were either: those with criminal convictions Tony Yengeni; those facing criminal charges Andile Lungisa; and those facing serial corruption allegations Nomvula Mokonyane; or those aligned with the anti-Ramaphosa camp Mzwandile Masina Carl Niehaus and Kebby Maphatsoe...

Disgraced ANC members like Carl Niehaus and Veterans League head Kebby Maphatsoe have also been key members of the Dlamini-Zuma camp...

Vacancies have arisen: for instance ANC member of parliament Carl Niehaus and the SACP' s Raymond Suttner have received (unwelcome...