Some see the election of the top six as one of unity that will solidify the ANC but others fear links to state capture have been retained
Zweli Mkhize said he declined nomination for the sake of unity, but he has apparently made deals with both presidential candidates
The new ANC president has done his supporters in Soweto proud
News that Cyril Ramaphosa had been elected ANC president pleased the markets at first, with the rand dollar exchange rate improving
The factions have finally become one but not everyone is happy with how the chips finally fell.
Cyril Ramaphosa becomes the ANC’s 13th president
Vote counting has commenced at the Nasrec expo centre, in the south of Johannesburg, where delegates completed the voting process earlier today.
Fake news about each factions — and their strategies to take down the competitions — abound at #ANC54
The once-avid Zuma supporter is placing her bets with Ramaphosa, but she’s unlikely to succeed
As Nasrec heats up, residents of nearby Soweto hope for an ANC that will do better
The ANC’s Veterans League plans to meet with presidential candidates in a bid to prevent further tensions over the party succession battle.
South Africans were not consistent in their outrage, she claimed.
Lindiwe Zulu says that she endorsed NDZ because her election would ensure that there is gender parity in the top and bottom structures of the ANC
In his last speech, President Jacob Zuma denounced everyone but himself for South Africa’s fractured state
‘You see the church does not go with this politics’
After claiming that Mpumalanga branch general meetings were fixed, the presidential hopeful had to withdraw his court bid
Zuma said “ill-discipline” has caused ANC members to take the party to court or to side openly with the opposition.
Analyst Tinyiko Maluleke says the exclusion of 54 PEC members and 40 Bojanala branches from voting will not adversely affect Dlamini-Zuma’s fortunes
The man who got the KZN provincial executive committee disqualified has suffered the same fate
“Unity” is reportedly an instruction from ANC Mpumalanga chairperson DD Mabuza for branches not to pick an individual
Zuma assured his detractors he holds no grudges against them and urged all ANC members to work towards uniting the 105-year-old organisation.
The Mail & Guardian continues its satirical guest writer series. Would-be tenderpreneur Apollo Mabuza gives us his first impressions
Changing the system to allow for direct election would require SA to look carefully at how a directly elected president should be held accountable.
The high court judgment means premier Ace Magashule is no longer in charge of the party in the province and will have to contest the position again.
Delegates from disqualified branches are intent on barging into the ANC’s leadeship election
‘Mechanisms to control the power of its party president are well within the reach of an ANC national conference’
Readers write in about ANC and its legal battles, and the possibilty of Cyril Ramaphosa being president of the ANC
We must be careful not to overstate what it means to choose the least bad candidate
Follow this timeline of the highlights of ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s career.
The ANC presidential race is about how
much control the victor will be able to exercise.
Cele said a call made in 1912, when the ANC was born, for different tribes to work together clearly resonated with some voters in his home province
President Jacob Zuma’s legal team has filed an application to appeal his most immediate prior loss — his inability to appoint the next head of the NPA