Akin Omotoso, Loyiso Gola and others share their favourite film and television highlights from 2012.
In a further vote of confidence in ANC president Jacob Zuma, party delegates voted in a pro-Zuma slate, punishing those who had challenged him.
The ANC has downplayed Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s decision not to run for a position on the ruling party’s national executive committee.
More ANC bigwigs have declined nomination for the party’s national executive committee, including the president’s spin doctor Mac Maharaj.
Kgalema Motlanthe is out of top level ANC politics entirely after his decisive defeat by Jacob Zuma in the race for the party presidency.
With President Zuma and his allies taking the top spots, to much jubilation, the political futures of the other contenders are uncertain.
The M&G’s Nic Dawes analyses events at the conference so far – political and organisational reports, the pro-Zuma atmosphere and the alleged bomb threat.
Kgalema Motlanthe is going for broke. He has declined nomination for the post of deputy president, and will contend only for president.
Seven people have been arrested in connection with an alleged right wing plot to bomb a tent at the ANC’s electoral conference.
The ANC’s Mangaung conference faces the threat of being interdicted after the Free State PEC said it would approach courts to stop the congress.