The DA took an early lead in this year’s general election with the publication of the first results just before 11pm on Wednesday in Pretoria.
South Africa sets an exemplary standard for elections, observers to the elections told the Mail & Guardian Online on Wednesday evening.
With the reassurance that ”the country is in safe hands and nothing will ever go wrong”, Jacob Zuma on Sunday wrapped up the ANC’s election campaign.
The ANC is poised to win a convincing majority in national polls on Wednesday on the back of an effective electoral machinery.
The ANC Women’s League wants four of the nine premiers to be women. But many provincial party bosses see the situation differently.
These corruption charges against Jacob Zuma are sad, but a person is not guilty until he is proven otherwise.
Mandy Rossouw and Paul Botes went looking for Thabo Mbeki’s mother in Idutywa and came away feeling there’s only one Cope supporter in town.
The ghost of Cope is now hanging over the premiership race in the Eastern Cape, which is considered to be the party’s heartland.
End is in sight for the health minister who dared to challenge government’s view on Tibet.
The African National Congress has put the establishment of a media appeals tribunal on the backburner after severe pressure from civil society.