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.
Free State voters are underwhelmed by Cope, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.
Mmanaledi Mataboge quizzed academic Sipho Seepe, a prominent member of Jacob Zuma’s camp.
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s life in struggle and later in government were vastly different.
As the ANC played host to members of minority communities in Sandton on Saturday night, Cope’s Mvume Dandala took his campaign to the Free State.
Government officials, who asked not to be named, asked why SA was so determined to placate China when that country undermined SA’s economic interests.
Mvume Dandala, Cope’s presidential candidate, failed to elicit much excitement when he caught the train from Pretoria on Wednesday morning.
There has been distrust between Luthuli House and the North West provincial leadership since the PEC was elected in May last year.
Sources said while he pretended in public that he was over the shock, his anger is still being felt in Cope.