The Shikota movement has enlisted one of South Africa’s most influential businesswomen as a key backer and fundraiser. Industrial Development Corporation chair Wendy Luhabe broke cover this week to ...

Can Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota's breakaway party succeed? There are good reasons to be sceptical. Two months ago, few observers would have contended that South Africa was suffering from a ...

Everybody knows about Mosiuoa Lekota, Mbhazima Shilowa and Mluleki George. But who are the other leading lights in the Shikota movement? When communications director general Lyndall Shope resigned ...

Johannesburg — THE new party led by Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota might have to settle for its popular nickname -- Shikota party -- after it was found that the preferred name was already taken.

The stage has been set for what other analysts and the mainstream media term as the major development on our political landscape. However, little has been said about the hypocrisy underlying the ...

Come 2009 elections, Shikota won’t be getting my vote. While their pro-constitutional rhetoric is encouraging, it’s also hard to believe. Where was Lekota’s commitment to the constitution when he was ...

The "Shikota" Interim Youth Movement had to defend its leaders from claims of elitism and poor performance while in government when it met the media on Wednesday. The ...

The SABC has been accused of ignoring the ANC gatherings in favour of Shikota, a new splinter group recently established by the ruling party's dissidents, according to yesterday's (Sunday, 2 November ...

Congress of the People (Cope) co-founders Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota is continuing their dispute over who is the party’s leaders in an application in the Johannesburg High Court today. In ...

Not only has thinking the unthinkable become more apparent, but touching those formerly considered untouchable seems ever more likely, as an examination of the virtues, vices and future of the ...

NEWSWATCH: The SABC has been accused of ignoring the ANC gatherings in favour of Shikota, a new splinter group recently established by the ruling party's dissidents, according to yesterday's (Sunday, ...