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“The transition means more decentralised distribution systems for electricity

Metsimaholo will be a measure of the ANC’s problems

It could be a wake-up call for a party distracted by power struggles over its next group of leaders

The people of Sasolburg’s Zamdela township are fed up with the ANC. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Municipality’s rot is in your face but there is  no clear-cut solution

The worst-performing municipalities were found in the Free State and North West which had huge liquidity shortfalls.

‘The start of the conference on Saturday was delayed by an urgent meeting of the NEC in the morning

Bruising Metsimaholo by-election shows ANC is bleeding support

The Metsimaholo results indicate that the party’s support among the township dwellers in the municipality has collapsed.

The National Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) is urging businesses and employers to ensure that registered voters can cast their vote on 29 May.

Will the Metsimaholo by-elections bring relief to its beleaguered residents?

There is no guarantee that any are likely to be given an outright mandate to pursue their manifestos.

There is no war between factions

The SACP has the ANC over a barrel in Metsimaholo municipality

By taking on its alliance member, the SACP is ‘making history’ in the small Free State district

State has to prove Zuma is HIV-positive

The state has to prove Jacob Zuma is HIV-positive and that was why he could allegedly rape an HIV-positive woman, his defence told the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. Zuma’s…

Zuma’s story ‘laughable, fanciful’

The state pulled out all the stops on Wednesday to prove that Jacob Zuma raped an HIV-positive woman, saying his version of events was ”laughable” and ”fanciful”. Prosecutor…

Zuma: ‘Efforts made’ to drop rape charge

There was no doubt efforts were made to persuade Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser to drop the charge, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Wednesday. ”There is little doubt…

Zuma’s defence closes its case

Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will know ”as soon as possible” whether he will be convicted of rape, Johannesburg High Court Judge Willem van der Merwe said on Tuesday. ”Yes,…

Agony aunt theorises about rape

Emotional transference could lead a victim of previous rape to perceive consensual sex as rape afterwards, a forensic psychologist told Jacob Zuma’s rape trial on Tuesday.…

Witnesses come out in Zuma’s defence

Three more men were brought in on Wednesday to testify about their associations with Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser, but she claims not to know them. One man said she had sex with…

Zuma trial: Another theologian testifies

Yet another theologian testified at Jacob Zuma’s rape trial on Wednesday, but unlike others who told the court of false rape accusations by Zuma’s accuser, pastor Modianyeo…

Pastor says Zuma’s accuser ‘is not well’

Jacob Zuma’s legal team has continued to produce witnesses associated with the church in support of their belief that his rape accuser has a history of making false rape claims.…

Second pastor tells of rape claim

A second church pastor told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday that he was accused of rape by Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser. The only reason that pastor Peete Mbambo could think…

Zuma trial: Pastor tells of rape claim

A church pastor told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday how he was expelled from college after a false rape accusation by Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser. Pastor Sithembile Masoka…

ANC ‘solved its own problems’ in exile

Zambian police were never asked to probe allegations of the rape of Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser when she was a teenager because the ANC in exile sorted out its own problems, the…

‘She was trying to seduce my father’

Jacob Zuma’s daughter believes his rape accuser had ulterior motives when she arrived at his Johannesburg home last November, the high court heard on Thursday. ”She was either…

Zuma: She gave sexual signals

Jacob Zuma believed the woman who has accused him of rape was sending him sexual signals, but denied that he set her up in his guest room to test them, the Johannesburg High…

Zuma trial: Family ties and friendship

Old friendships and family ties were laid bare in Jacob Zuma’s Johannesburg High Court rape trial on Tuesday. Zuma chose to sit down for his second day of testimony and seemed…

Zuma: ‘She was not at risk’

Former deputy president Jacob Zuma does not think he placed his rape accuser at risk of HIV/Aids or any other sexually transmitted disease by not using a condom, the Johannesburg…