Four Sonas on, he is still to enforce his will upon the governing party and the state
His visionary pragmatism and his aim – together with SA’s citizens — is to build a capable state
Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times
I have been slow but steady in rebuilding South Africa, but it’s time for tough, decisive action
The challenge to deliver a persuasive speech comes firstly in the context of intense doubts as to whether President Ramaphosa is truly in charge of the ANC
The president is facing challenges at every turn, among them the economy, the state of SOEs and factionalism within the ANC. Only if Ramaphosa and his party work together will they be able to turn their declining fortunes around
The ANC in the Western Cape has agreed, in principle, to discuss a move to call for the increase in the number of seats for elected public representatives. Following an interim provincial leadership committee meeting last weekend, the party said it is willing to discuss the matter, and raise it with the party’s national leadership. […]
The pace of land reform needs to be increased. But taking power from the courts and giving it to the executive will only create more policy uncertainty
Although Benjamin Fogel denies the relevance of the South African Communist Party — and gets a few facts wrong — some of his points are correct
More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade
Once again, political expediency has trumped principled action
The union federation says urgent, bold action is needed to keep the state-owned utility (and South Africa) going
Despite alleged abuses of power and people’s trust, the ANC appears to have abandoned plans to reform the controversial Ingonyama Trust Board
The SACP is not building socialism, or even social democracy. Sadly, it has become just another party advancing the politics of patronage
Impoverished residents have sought legal advice after the Witzenberg Municipality withdrew indigent subsidies for those who refused to allow it to install water management devices.
In this response to Judy Seidman, Njabulo Zwane defends a Black Radical Tradition of refusing the notion of work itself
The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982
A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible
Cyril Ramaphosa wants to do the right thing – bring independent power producers on to the grid. He must act despite opposition from top ANC members
Landmark judgment paves the way for South Africans
to use legal system to hold councils responsible
We need to slay the myth that the president alone has magical powers to fix the economy and ANC
No one knows how many Ethiopians are in South Africa — but Abiy knows he needs their support
ANC president says only his party can improve lives, as Northern Cape residents lament their struggles in South Africa’s sparsest province
"The ANC’s long history and continued survival is something to marvel at. But celebrating the mere fact of survival is really not enough"
President Ramaphosa is in a disastrous position for someone elected the way he was and with enemies circling
Former minister Ronnie Kasrils writes in his memoir about what turns a boychick from the Jo’burg suburb of Yeoville into an ANC underground operative
Collapsed coalitions, a reduced ANC majority, a conflicted ruling party, a self-gutting DA, the ‘same old’ EFF and something new from the IFP
The ANC is stronger electorally but is still too weak to help the president make the decisions the country’s many crises demand
This is an edited extract of the introduction to ‘Revolutionary Thought in the 20th Century’ (1980) edited by Ben Turok
Sources say the student command will be backing the “contestation” slate, which seeks to disrupt the centralised power of the leadership.
The former ANC MP was known as one of SA’s foremost thinkers and an author of the Freedom Charter
Despite fielding a candidate tainted by a R30-million scandal, the ANC managed to take over from the former DA-led alliance running Jo’burg