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.
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.
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
A frosty contest is expected at Mangaung as the "cold war" between Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe escalates.
Some in the ANC have inflated room prices in the Free State for the Mangaung conference, but the leadership has rented school and university hostels.
The ANC took resolutions at its Polokwane conference in 2007 to enhance both the party’s and the government’s service delivery.
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.
Thabo Thwala responds to an article on the Mail & Guardian about South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande.
As the ANC goes to its elective conference in Mangaung, we look at the resolutions made at the 2007 Polokwane conference. What have they achieved?
As the ANC goes to its elective conference in Mangaung, we look at the resolutions made at the 2007 Polokwane conference. What have they achieved?
The ANC has declined to comment on the M&G report claiming Jacob Zuma had more benefactors than previously thought to cover his debts and expenses.
After 1994, South Africa’s biggest banks bent over backwards to accommodate Jacob Zuma, who regularly splurged on credit.
On speculation that he would be nominated as president or deputy, Motlanthe has said such talk was ‘coffee-house bubbles not worthy of response’.