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Chair collapse turns Nene into web celebrity

A sudden chair collapse, broadcast live on television, has turned parliamentary finance committee chairperson Nhlanhla Nene into an instant web hit.

‘ANC is not split down the middle’

The ANC not divided right down the middle, said party leader Jacob Zuma in a television interview on Wednesday evening.

Heard about John McCain’s special ability?

United States Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday fell victim to cheeky editing of his profile on Wikipedia.

A structure in an animal enclosure burns on Sunday as a fire swept through the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Gauteng

How park staff saved animals from blaze

As fires swept across six provinces on the weekend, staff at the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Gauteng battled to save animals from the flames.

The great keyring paranoia prank

Jozi is a dangerous city indeed, where cunning criminals now plant tracking devices in their victims’ cars — or do they?

Stop behaving badly, Zuma tells youth league

ANC leader Jacob Zuma on Sunday laid down the law for the ANC Youth League at the organisation’s national congress in Johannesburg.

Xenophobic violence grips Johannesburg

Hundreds of frightened foreigners fled to the sanctity of the Jeppe police station in central Johannesburg on Sunday morning following a night of deadly xenophobic violence that…

Zimbabwe election crisis: Where to from here?

A crisis in Zimbabwe? What crisis? This question was debated by three high-ranking Zimbabwean opposition politicians at the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Critical Thinking Forum in…

Free State Four: We didn’t urinate on meat

Two University of the Free State students apologised on Thursday for their involvement in a racist video which has sparked a national outcry. RC Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe…

Free State Four: Who’s to blame?

A video made by white students that shows them humiliating black university employees on Thursday continued to draw angry protests as well as criticism that racism remains…

Shake-up in ANC national executive

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Zuma on Zim, Mbeki and corruption

”Imminent” corruption charges against newly elected African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma, Zimbabwe and the death penalty were all issues that featured prominently in…

Zuma: ‘There is only one ANC’

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ANC aims to build a ‘caring society’

Finding a value-based overarching South African identity has become a priority for the African National Congress (ANC), national executive committee member Joel Netshitenzhe…

Zuma is new ANC president

Jacob Zuma is the new president of the African National Congress. The announcement was greeted by an outpouring of joy and ecstatic cheering by ANC delegates at the party’s…

ANC apologises for media-bashing

The ANC has apologised for the ”unfortunate” way in which members of the media have been treated at its national conference in Polokwane. The apology followed three days of…

ANC voting: ‘So far, so good’

A third day of cool, rainy weather in Polokwane did little to quench the fiery support for the front-runners in the ANC presidential race: Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Voting for…

ANC voting starts after delays

Voters turned out in droves on Tuesday for the election of the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) president at the University of Limpopo. It was unclear whether voting…

Media barred from ANC sessions

Heavy early-morning rain on Monday did nothing to dampen the spirits of supporters of the frontrunners in the ANC leadership race, but journalists were left high and dry while…

Sexwale steps out of ANC race

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