The smart money is still on ANC president Jacob Zuma being re-elected at the Mangaung conference next month, writes Matuma Letsoalo.
Hysteria and paranoia. That is what leaders of the ANC and the SACP accuse the press of when concerns about threats to freedom of speech are raised.
The South African Communist Party has said African values demand respect for Jacob Zuma and criticism should be legislated.
South Africa needs a well-run campaign to steer it away from the capitalist-loving African National Congress’ course, writes Mazibuko K Jara.
Sabotage, falling-outs and electricity outages ensured that it was an interesting week of local politics.
Divisions in the ANC at a local level are threatening KZN’s homogeneity as a voting bloc at the party’s conference in Mangaung later this year.
The ANC has finally given up on its incompetent municipal manager in Oudtshoorn months after a court ruled that he was not qualified for the position.
The ward 10 ANC branch general meeting in Nkandla has sent a message to the party in more ways than one, writes Floyd Shivambu.
The ANC has dismissed the vote of no confidence tabled against Jacob Zuma by a coalition of opposition parties in Parliament as a waste of time.
While Zuma is content to snack on the surface of the food chain, oblivious to growing scandal, his future second in command could be our saviour.
Helen Zille goes Nkandla bashing in the KZN. She’ll stop at nothing – except a police-sponsored ANC roadblock – but can she handle the truth that lurks inside?
Floyd Shivambu and his ilk repeatedly insist on being authorities on issues of which they clearly have limited understanding.
Helen Zille’s thwarted march to Nkandla and SA’s slide into mediocrity is like something out of a book. But it’s all too real, writes Verashni Pillay.
South Africans should stop calling the ANC corrupt because that was simply not true, President Jacob Zuma has said.
The investment world would have been up in arms by now if South African Airways were a private company, writes Fatima Hassan.
South Africans should be able to understand that what is legally permissible and what is wise or constructive are not the same.
We hope we can clarify some of the processes leading up to the African National Congress’ elective conference, writes Gwede Mantashe.
Running on a Jacob Zuma ticket could fast-track Cyril Ramaphosa’s ascent, but his hopes may equally well be dashed, writes Anthony Butler.
With just more than three weeks before the leadership nomination process closes, ANC branches are struggling to attract enough members to meetings.
When Cyril Ramaphosa was deployed to the private sector in the mid-90s, it was sold to him as a decade-long break from politics.
The president has missed the chance to win over the media with his artless answers to critical questions. Louise Redvers reports.
An eleventh-hour settlement has been reached between AfriForum, the ANC and Julius Malema over the heated "shoot the boer" debacle.
The ANC has poured water on the DA’s plan to uncover alleged impropriety related to the upgrades on President Jacob Zuma’s rural homestead in Nkandla.
Allegedly orchestrated by Julius Malema, a R1.7-billion school feeding programme in Limpopo appears to have been rigged to favour people close to him.
Jacob Zuma has never proposed anything coherent because, more often than not, he misdiagnoses the causes of SA’s challenges, writes Floyd Shivambu.
These days the ANC’s loudest voices are those of populists, racists, opportunists and reactionaries.
We profile the frontrunners for the coveted position of ANC deputy president: Cyril Ramaphosa, Kgalema Motlanthe, Tokyo Sexwale and Mathews Phosa.
The ANC’s Alex la Guma branch in Cape Town is not your average ANC branch: it is young and old and black and white.
According to an internal ANC report, 38 members of the party have been killed in KwaZulu-Natal since the beginning of 2011.
They had to haul some members out of shebeens at an ANC meeting in Khutsong, but at least they got to nominate their candidates.
More than 30 ANC branches have nominated Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba for a top six position in the party, says a newspaper report.
Spending on current items such as public sector wages put at risk the roll-out of the government’s infrastructure programme, economists have warned.