African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe has launched an extraordinary attack on the country’s top judges.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma on Sunday laid down the law for the ANC Youth League at the organisation’s national congress in Johannesburg.
ANC Youth League conference runs behind schedule as NEC nominations are held up by a failure to reach consensus.
Matuma Letsoalo, Mandy Rossouw and Sello S Alcock look at key policy recommendations to be discussed by the ANC Youth League.
Differences have emerged about what the ANC Youth League should do with its business arm, Lembede Investments.
In the cause of political stability, the Congress of South African Trade Unions resisted the temptation this week to call for President Thabo Mbeki to step down. But it warned that it might raise the question again if the government does not work more closely with the tripartite alliance.
Deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana are set to announce their withdrawal from politics as the curtain falls on the Thabo Mbeki era. They will join the growing exodus of Mbeki-appointed ministers and senior government managers who are leaving public life.
The ANC’s left-wing allies are to propose the revamping of the Cabinet, among other far-reaching government reforms, at the first tripartite alliance summit organised under Jacob Zuma’s leadership of the ruling party. The three-day summit, to be held in Midrand, begins today.
The African National Congress working committee this week approved the election of the top five leaders of the youth league after a bruising electoral battle at the youth conference in Bloemfontein. This is what newly elected president Julius Malema shared in a recent interview.
As the African National Congress’s (ANC) new national leadership flexes its muscles, fierce power struggles are raging at provincial level. Many are a continuation of last year’s Polokwane divisions, although there are local twists. The Mail & Guardian looks at three provinces where these dynamics are playing themselves out.