The smartly dressed audience filing into Johannesburg’s Market Theatre is a mix of young and old, black and white.
Almost a year after Skwatsha was stabbed in the neck during an ANC meeting in Worcester, ANCYL member Ndikho Tyawana appeared in court this week.
Every night, John Lepota heads to the communal TV room at his mineworkers compound to faithfully check the latest platinum price on the evening news.
The legal fraternity is uneasy after the ANC president’s recent comments.
The African National Congress has spent no less than R200-million on its 2009 election campaign, the party said on Friday.
The IFP on Friday accused the ANC of employing ‘terror tactics’ and wounding 13 of its members in attacks ahead of next week’s election.
Fifteen years after Nelson Mandela became president, South Africa is heading into its fourth parliamentary election.
National Director of Public Prosecutions Moketedi Mpshe could have made no other decision than to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma.
Eating three meals a day is a treat the Khosephi family has not had in months, a continuous struggle they share with many destitute rural families.
The ANC is poised to win a convincing majority in national polls on Wednesday on the back of an effective electoral machinery.
Jacob Zuma’s Zuluness hurts IFP fortunes in KwaZulu-Natal. Niren Tolsi reports.
At its birth last year, some pundits thought the Congress of the People might even draw enough support to prevent the ANC winning a majority.
There was no word yet from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Thursday on how many South Africans had voted overseas.
The Moutse Demarcation Forum will not boycott next week’s elections after Cabinet announced on Thursday that further consultations were necessary.
Cope will win the Eastern Cape province in the April 22 election, party leader Mvume Dandala said in East London on Thursday.
I wasn’t brought up in a racist house, but if they can’t even treat their own properly, what about us?
The one thing shack dwellers like Mnikelo Ndabankulu are guaranteed of after every election, is more building material for their mjondolos. Once the ballots have been cast, election posters make their way into informal settlements like Foreman Road, a sprawl of rusted metal, wood and cardboard shacks arranged on a precipitous slope overlooking the middle-class […]
The African National Congress used to be ”a lot more orderly”, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday evening.
Free State voters are underwhelmed by Cope, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.
As new media grows in access and reach in South Africa, its freedom status will become central to the quality of our democracy.
South Africans across the globe showed up on Wednesday to vote, and for most making their mark in a foreign land was a momentous occasion.
A lack of regulation over political party funding was the biggest threat to democracy in SA, political analyst Steven Friedman said on Wednesday.
ANC president Jacob Zuma emerged as the favourite politician followed by DA leader Helen Zille among people questioned in a new pre-election survey.
"My life has changed since 1994 because that is when we got freedom. Now my children, they don’t have to pay for school fees"
These corruption charges against Jacob Zuma are sad, but a person is not guilty until he is proven otherwise.
Government is are now threatening my livelihood with the introduction of this new transport system.
Unemployment and a lack of access to good education made me leave home in the 1980s and I see that my children are following in the same footsteps.
The ANC has made serious mistakes on public service deployment, BEE and land reform, the party’s treasurer-general Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday.
The NPA’s statement explaining its decision to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma closely resembles a judgement handed down in Hong Kong.
A week and a day ahead of the April 22 elections, the SABC has cancelled an episode of Special Assignment dealing with satire.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma is suing the Guardian for defamation over an article that described his leadership style as ”morally contaminated”.
Politicians warring for votes on the country’s lamp posts are decidedly unhappy at attacks on their carefully composed posters.