Who is really calling the shots in the new administration?
Key sectors of the country’s economy, including mining, petroleum and chemicals, are bracing themselves for industrial action.
Gwede Mantashe spoke to the <em>Mail& Guardian</em> about some of the pressing challenges facing the new government and the ruling party.
Nationalising mines is not a government priority, a member of President Jacob Zuma’s executive has told the Mail & Guardian.
High inflation, growing socioeconomic inequality and huge salary gaps are key factors in the rash of current and threatened strikes across the country
The structure will have the power to recommend to Cosatu’s central executive committee to recall those who fail to pursue a working-class agenda.
Matuma Letsoalo interviewed ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on the new succession battle in the tripartite alliance.
The ANC has reappointed a friendly opponent, African People’s Convention president Themba Godi, as chair of the important public accounts committee.
Patel has been one of the strongest critics of the investor-friendly economic policies of the past decade.
Cosatu and South African Communist Party leaders featured prominently in Jacob Zuma’s new Cabinet announced in Pretoria on Sunday.