Fikile Mbalula

I ordered him to rest and said, 'You’re not going back to work until I and the doctors are satisfied. I’m a doctor also by marriage. Only when I am satisfied that you are fully okay,' Ramaphosa said.

— President Cyril Ramaphosa, during remarks after Mbalula's collapse at a media briefing at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.

A right our people bled for cannot be taken away by a screen design.

— Fikile Mbalula, speaking after the Constitutional Court ruling on candidate inclusion; he argued that a right his people bled for cannot be taken away by a screen design.

To come to the Constitutional Court to argue against the enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of South Africans does not sit easily besides the understanding of intent

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general; spoken at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg after the ANC's victory against the IEC on including its candidates in six municipalities

The founding statement of intent of Government of National Unity binds every partner to promote the constitutional framework of this Republic. To come to the Constitutional Court to argue against enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of South Africans does not sit easily beside that understanding.

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general, remarks on calls to review the DA’s role in the GNU

Lawlessness cannot be a norm and be tolerated. I’ve spoken about this and another political party, EFF, was knocking on people’s doors, telling foreigners to go, outside the law.

— Said during an ANC media briefing on July 2 about anti-immigration protests; framed as addressing criminal conduct and linking the EFF to unlawful activity.

Renewal in the ANC is not a slogan; it must be measured in conduct.

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general, speaking at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in the Eastern Cape on Sunday.

"The best is to get it out of court," she said.— Nomvula Mokonyane during a campaign trail in Ivory Park, urging the ANC to resolve the Mbalula-Lungisa dispute outside court

The public's view is that the ANC has moved away in terms of their main focus from that of public service to that of personal service, of personal interest. And that's an exceptionally difficult perception to turn around, and especially if you have to do it in a very short space of time.

— Professor Dirk Kotzé, Professor of Political Sciences at UNISA, discussing the ANC's challenges ahead of the local elections (in interview with 702's Aubrey Masango).

AfriForum longs for a country where black people are expected to bow their heads and answer 'ja baas'.

— Mahlengi Bhengu, ANC national spokesperson, in an ANC statement criticizing AfriForum amid the Mbalula prosecution row

Sit down.

— Fikile Mbalula told Patrice Motsepe at an ANC gathering to sit down.

AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit believes a criminal court will agree, convict him accordingly, and send a clear message that there are consequences for politicians who use their public platforms to spread lies with scant regard for the consequences.

— Barry Bateman, AfriForum spokesperson, commenting on the NPA decision to prosecute Fikile Mbalula and related remarks about accountability for politicians who spread false accusations

even more disgraceful is the involvement of organisations like AfriForum, who shield suspects rather than standing for justice

— Fikile Mbalula, speaking to the media after a party meeting on April 1, 2025, regarding the Bergview case

We call on all ANC members, leaders and supporters to remain calm and disciplined, and to refrain from public commentary that could prejudice or interfere with the ongoing legal process.

— ANC's official response to the court ruling regarding the 2026 local government elections.

We have never seen a situation where we demonstrate anarchy at the level that we see now, where people are clearly showing the ANC the middle finger, where people are no longer scared of the ANC.

— Oscar Mabuyane, Eastern Cape ANC chair, in an interview with the Sunday Times, discussing the ANC’s governance crisis over the candidate-list debacle.

a full and unconditional and mutually agreed retraction

— Ngcukayitobi via his lawyers (Mabuza Attorneys) in a letter to Fikile Mbalula demanding a full and unconditional and mutually agreed retraction of the falsehoods published by Mbalula against him

"Mr Mbalula convened the meeting envisaged in clause 9.6.5 at a hotel in Johannesburg and instructed the officials to remove my name," Lungisa says.— Lungisa says, in the context of his court papers alleging that Mbalula personally instructed officials to remove his name.

The decision this court will make will determine whether hundreds of thousands of people will be deprived of an electoral choice on 4 November. It is not neutral on the right to vote. Our interpretation clearly enfranchises rather than disenfranchises.

— Advocate Daniel Berger, arguing on behalf of the ANC at the Electoral Court hearing

the use of the money was to ensure he [Mbalula] and the current president of the ANC and the country [Ramaphosa] were elected

— Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, in her answering affidavit, describing the money distribution at the 2022 ANC conference.

A comrade who is on no list cannot be elected a councillor, and a person who is not a councillor cannot be elected mayor. The recommendation, in each of these 51 cases, cannot be given effect.

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general, in his report on the party's handling of mayoral candidate registrations for the municipal elections.