Mbalula concedes poor election result could damage ANC leadership

Mbalula concedes poor election result could damage ANC leadership. Skip to content Menu Home | Mbalula concedes poor election result could damage ANC leadership African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula.

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Image Credits : X @MYANC Ntebo Mokobo 8 September 2026, 18:05 [SAST] African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mblalula says should the party record poor performance at the November local elections polls, it would be a bad reflection on the current leadership. LGE 2026 | ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says mayoral candidates underwent checks for fraud, criminality and other integrity concerns, as the party intensifies its renewal and accountability efforts. pic. twitter. com/fgLXdiGSw0 — SABC News (@SABCNews) September 8, 2026 Mbalula says if the ANC performs dismally in these elections, members will be within their rights to call for their exit.

“At the end of the day if you lose it reflects on the leadership and it will be said that in history our leadership has failed in two elections dismally. Photograph: Alex Brandon/APState handouts, 10,000 lasers – and Trump’s election: six things we learned from the Elon Musk filmAlex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering childrenVeteran documentarian Alex Gibney’s film about the richest broligarch on the planet has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films at the Venice film festival this year.

But what he did with the funds he earned from selling shares of his first software companies, Zip2, X. com and PayPal, was unusual, Gibney concedes. Musk knew with a disconcerting degree of certainty that Trump would re-electedIn the film, St Clair describes the events of Trump’s election in November 2024. Musk, she tells Gibney, had a “degree of certainty” about the results before they came in that “I had never seen before”.

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The godfather of AI is worried Musk might rig the next electionGeoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning British-Canadian computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI”, used to be friendly with Musk, but the pair fell out after Hinton declined his offer to join the xAI board. “It’s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,” Hinton says onscreen. “If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on US citizens.

The ANC has been experiencing a serious electoral decline and even losing its parliamentary majority This as fears are mounting that the ANC could dip far below the 46% it garnered in the 2021 local polls. We have been saying that there is no 2027 without 2026. Those who want to lead the ANC will say this group has failed they must go. I don’t think we will even reach December, there will be toy-toying like you have never seen.

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We are working for victory but others are looking at it in political goggles, if they fail, what do we do? We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Skip to main contentSkip to navigation ‘I need to look like an engineer’ … Elon Musk in Alex Gibney’s film. The Oscar-winning 72-year-old, who has in previous films taken on the US military, the Catholic church, Vladimir Putin and Scientology, has been investigating the tech tycoon’s ascent and speaking to people in his orbit since late 2022, before his Maga turn and Trump 2.

It is shocking less for any individual new pieces of information Gibney has unearthed than for its totality. Here are six things the film tells us:Musk is a genius – at tricking the government into giving him assistanceAt Maga rallies, Musk has been introduced as “America’s biggest capitalist”, but Gibney reminds us that he’s always been more than happy to go begging to the state for handouts – such as by cosying up to Obama to gain government contracts for SpaceX to launch satellites for Nasa and the military.

The film zooms in on a Tesla press event in June 2013, where Musk unveiled a new “battery swap” system that promised to remove and replace the drained battery pack of a Model S with a fully charged one in just 90 seconds. As it turns out, the technology was never rolled out, and interviewees tell Gibney that a demonstration site at Harris Ranch was barely used for the process.

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Instead, the film-maker suggests that Musk’s over-promise allowed Tesla to get more ZEV credits from the Californian government, which are awarded to electric car makers based on range and which Musk could then sell to more polluting manufacturers. In spite of everything, there was something admirable about Musk onceGibney’s film serves as a reminder that Musk has never been in possession of charm or charisma – the petulant perma-poster retweeting praise is not far from the self-regarding twentysomething start-up bro.

Where others turned to venture capital, Musk turned to engineering. It’s partially an act, we learn from his ex-wife Justine when she recalls how self-consciously he picked his wardrobe, telling her “I can’t look cool or hip, because I need to look like an engineer”. But in footage of Musk biting his nails with fellow engineers during SpaceX rocket launches his enthusiasm and emotional investment is genuine, and at times infectious. Musk’s procreation drive is motivated by a fear of civilisational breakdownMusk has 14 publicly known children, and sources tell Gibney that there are probably more.

Some of them were conceived in romantic relationships but more recently the circumstances of their birth seem to have been entirely transactional, via sperm donations to employees of his companies.

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