The build-up to the national elections next year is set to be a dirty affair, especially in the highly contested Western Cape.
We need leadership, morals, courage and knowledge to end the rot in South African politics, writes Charles Villa-Vicencio.
Business, unions, public servants — the ANC conference in Mangaung covered all bases, except for the biggie, says Rapule Tabane.
Big business needs to be more "inclusive" and cater towards the needs of their employees, ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has said.
The official line is that he won’t replace Kgalema Motlanthe, so what is the ANC planning? Phillip De Wet reports.
By bowing to pressure to toe the line and fill vacant positions the youth league hopes to stay relevant.
The party is set to beef up its strategies to counter negative perceptions about President Jacob Zuma.
Zuma has demonstrated an incredible skill at defeating his opponents: five years ago at Polokwane and now, at Mangaung.
Shell-shocked by the developments of 2012, ordinary South Africans must now lead, writes Nic Dawes.
The sudden winding up of the ANC’s newly elected deputy president’s businesses to allow him to enter government carries financial risk.
Gwede Mantashe embraces what he criticises and as a result the ANC as a whole is at war with itself, writes Niren Tolsi.
By going for broke, Kgalema Motlanthe ensured the ANC had to face the scale of its Jacob Zuma problem, writes Nic Dawes.
The Progressive Business Forum marquee at the Mangaung elective conference revealed a mixed bag of companies hoping to cosy up to the ruling party.
There are moves afoot to adopt the national development plan despite Cosatu’s concerns, writes Lisa Steyn.
Jacob Zuma’s new ANC leadership has taken its most decisive move to end uncertainty about economic policy by flatly rejecting nationalisation.
The business tent in Mangaung saw a daily influx of powerful business people under its white canvas.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the ANC had social media savvy. The reason was not hard to find, write Verashni Pillay and Mmanaledi Mataboge.
A report that ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa would decline his nomination was the result of "unsavoury" sources, the Star newspaper has said.
Political editor Gaye Davis has resigned following a report in the Star that Cyril Ramaphosa had refused a nomination to be ANC deputy president.
Delegates at the ANC’s conference finished voting for the party’s top six officials and results are expected to be announced later in the day.
Cyril Ramaphosa is believed to have accepted the nomination to run for ANC deputy president, according to key lobbyists.
An hour after the ANC’s conference was supposed to start on Sunday morning, delegates were still queuing outside the University of the Free State.
Growing anger among Mangaung delegates over alleged fraudulent activity during the registration of delegates could boil over into protest action.
Security at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, where the ANC is holding its national conference, has been beefed-up.
It is fashionable to blame politicians for a lack of ethics, but they are abetted by business
One thing Radebe gets right about Mangaung is that "this is a water-shed for the movement", says the New Citizen.
The ANC has delivered an unpalatable 12 months that has left the nation hungry for leadership, writes Richard Calland.
Fraudster and President Jacob Zuma’s former financial adviser Schabir Shaik claims the money did not buy him any commercial benefits.
Various anti-Zuma factions have launched bids to declare the provincial processes invalid, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.
The Polokwane conference taught us what we thought were the physics of the 21st-century ANC.
KwaZulu-Natal insiders say Zweli Mkhize, once a close ally of President Jacob Zuma, is aware of the campaign to kick him out of the province.
A frosty contest is expected at Mangaung as the "cold war" between Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe escalates.