The maligned former Eskom CEO challenged the notion that it was foolish to shut ageing power stations and focus on procuring more renewable capacity
Current chairperson hopes to take over from Nqaba Bhanga when the DA elects provincial leaders – and to deliver an upset in the 2024 election
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Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past
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The party believes it has been able to ‘self-correct’ after alienating white voters in the previous national and provincial elections
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An internal report implicates Maimane as the mastermind in a plan to rid the party of its white leaders, thereby alienating white voters
Although the city seems to be stabilising politically, it is heading for an uncertain financial future
DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink
The question over dismissing the Ngcobo report was whether MPs had a primary duty to hold the president to account or be accountable to voters
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Embattled mayor had been under pressure over the city’s adverse audit opinion in 2021-2022
The presidency has described the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to challenge the declaration of a national state of disaster over Eskom as “confusing” given that the party had been asking the president to do so since last year. DA leader John Steenhuisen confirmed on Friday that the party had already briefed its legal […]
In a hint of what will come in his cabinet reshuffle, the president sidelined Mantashe with plan to appoint energy minister in the presidency
Legal precedent favours the ATM in its application to have parliament’s vote on the Ngcobo report overturned but the speaker says the court erred
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Five years after being told to fix South Africa’s unconstitutional cannabis laws, the state has failed to do so
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Obsessive consultation is a pronounced feature of Ramaphosa’s leadership style, however, it has done him – and the country – few favours
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In addition to the looting of Covid-19 emergency funds released in terms of the 2020 state of national disaster, Ramaphosa’s term has been marked by a series of acts of financial lunacy by members of his cabinet.
The party wants the presidency to co-ordinate all responses to the energy fiasco
Mabuza wants out to allow state and government posts to align
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Costs and effect will determine how and when state-owned entities are moved from the department of enterprises to line departments
Governing party says it cannot be ‘arrogant’ and try to run Durban alone
The president is likely to follow party and state processes before making changes
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We’re all crying out for a cabinet reshuffle – and Paul Mashatile for his West Wing office – but the post-conference presents will take time
The president’s constitutional rights will be irreparably harmed in a criminal prosecution that has at its heart an attempt at political destabilisation
ANC member who got the boot says he will work with ‘parties on the left’ to transform South Africa
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From a bid to overturn parliament’s rejection of the Ngcobo report to Jacob Zuma’s appeal to stay out of prison, political actors will fill the courts
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The ANC’s reaction to the Zondo findings was a precursor of its attitude to the Ngcobo ‘Farmgate’ report
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The opposition party argues that the speaker failed to apply the established test for calling a secret ballot when she declined to do so
Ethnic chauvinism and table banging don’t win conferences once one crosses the Drakensberg mountains
Zweli Mkhize has closed the gap between himself and Cyril Ramaphosa in the days leading up to the leadership vote
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Attempts to reform party processes have been undermined by members clinging to an anti-democratic culture
Delays in registration and the delayed arrival by Jacob Zuma nearly stole president’s show
The matter will be ‘processed’ by the new national executive committee being elected at Nasrec.
The jailed fraudster says his criminal record has been expunged and that the step-aside rule can’t be applied retrospectively