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A lobby favouring Jacob Zuma as the next ANC leader is making inroads in Limpopo, traditionally a stronghold of President Thabo Mbeki, ANC sources say. With 52 489 members,…
The most powerful voting bloc at the ANC’s national conferences, the Eastern Cape, has launched an all-out campaign for President Thabo Mbeki to serve another term as ANC…
The ANC in North West is disobeying guidelines aimed at preventing the hiring of incompetent but politically connected municipal managers. A letter written by ANC provincial…
With less than nine months to go before the ANC national conference, which will choose a new leadership, adversaries Jacob Zuma and President Thabo Mbeki are using very different…
Crime has been hitting the front page news during the past few months. Yet it is not an area corporations are budgeting big bucks for in their corporate social investment (CSI)…
John Moodey, the newly elected DA leader in Gauteng, is a former unionist and ANC member who joined the Democratic Party in 1998 because he felt coloured people were alienated in…
A new ANC faction has emerged in North West which plans to oust leaders of the dominant grouping from ANC party structures and government positions in the province. Nicknamed the…
Residents blame municipal service failure, chronic unemployment and political infighting in the ANC for the recent spate of unrest in North West province. And their complaints…
Could African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe be the next president of the ANC? He is also in pole position to benefit from the confusion in the party, with…
Residents fear an imminent and severe water shortage throughout Limpopo province in the wake of recent water cuts and shortages in the Polokwane municipality. Simon Mokoatedi,…
A confidential internal report has painted a grim picture of disarray in the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, with seven of its provincial structures collapsing or…
Businessman Tokyo Sexwale has declined to respond to information that he met with ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma to ask him for his assistance in elbowing out Cyril Ramaphosa…
Whoever wants to be the next president of the African National Congress will probably have to go through president Thabo Mbeki, who has been asked by the party’s most influential…
Details of the British Serious Fraud Office investigation of BAE Systems published in the Mail & Guardian last week have placed both the British and South African governments…
This weekend is likely to see a blockbuster show of unity from the ruling African National Congress as the party celebrates its 95th birthday. Yet, behind the scenes, senior…
Jacob Zuma’s supporters believe that he is in a strong position to succeed President Thabo Mbeki and should stay in the race, even if there is a bid by businessman Tokyo Sexwale…
In 2009 Thabo Mbeki will step down as president of South Africa after 10 years at the helm. What will he do next? Various analysts and political commentators believe there are a…
Conflict is looming between the ANC and its youth wing after the ANC announced that it would step into the squabble between the ANC Youth League’s national leadership and its…
The ongoing disarray in the South African National Civics Organisation continued this week when the organisation’s national congress was disbanded with no agreement on how to…
A combination of factors including complacency, the departure of leftist stalwart and former ANC provincial chair Makhenkesi Stofile and his deputy Enoch Godongwana, and alleged…
