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.

ActionSA national chairperson Michael Beaumont is adamant the DA must carry the blame for “handing Johannesburg to the ANC”.

The Eastern Cape legislature leader of the EFF caucus has quit two months after being beaten at the EFF's provincial people's assembly.

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.

ANC presidential candidate Zweli Mkhize on Monday launched a scathing attack on the party's step-aside rule as well as the nomination regulations for NEC membership set by the organisation's elections committee headed by former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe.

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.