The Marikana massacre has exposed an increasingly tense relationship between the ANC leadership and its fractious members in North West.
The suggestion, presented with a sprinkling of muti, is that the 34 miners would not have been shot dead if some unseen hand had not been at work.
Officials opposed to the premier’s re-election in the Free State were axed but he says he is working to unite the ANC.
The ANC-led Oudtshoorn municipality is fighting to keep an unqualified cadre in a top municipal position despite a court ruling that he’s incompetent.
Cosatu will lobby for radical policy changes during its national conference next month, including the abolition of land ownership by foreigners.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has been dealt a double blow, losing two allies weeks before the labour federation’s national conference.
For many South Africans, the love affair with our president is on the rocks and his personal charisma is undermined by the rise of intimidation.
Cape Town councillor Andile Lili says that South Africa’s poor have been failed by officials across the board.
ANC sources claim the fraud charges brought against Bobby Motaung are largely politically motivated because he is a Jacob Zuma supporter.
Vavi has admitted that the Cosatu’s preoccupation with ANC politics is resulting in a growing distance between union leaders and its membership.
Free State Premier and chair Ace Magashule has hailed Jacob Zuma as an intellectual as he explains why he supports the president’s re-election bid.
Madonsela’s attendance at a Women’s Day event organised by the DA is part of a constitutional obligation to be accessible to people, her office says.
Zuma Inc has become a source of controversy as the nation questions the trading of political favours for private – if philanthropic – interests.
The Western Cape ANC’s announcement that it will evaluate the performance of its public representatives has ignited tension in the party.
Zwelinzima Vavi says the ANC has been unable to reassert the organisation’s mission and strategic vision.
The ANC’s factional battles came to a head this week, with analysts warning that recent chaos in the Eastern Cape might be a taste of things to come.
The youth league in the Eastern Cape has slated party leaders for dissolving the ANC’s chaotic regional conference before revealing election results.
Political killings and heavy-handed military veterans are disturbing signs of the African National Congress’ future, writes Paul Trewhela.
The ANC has used power allotted to it to create a black elite by implementing affirmative action in rather doubtful ways, writes Sampie Terreblanche.
Job growth has stagnated while the ANC dithers over how it will implement economic policy to spur flagging employment trends in South Africa.
Jacob Zuma’s popularity wanes in Gauteng, while the Limpopo textbook debacle may become a ugly blemish on the president’s record.
President Jacob Zuma is facing growing calls from within ANC structures to hold Angie Motshekga to account for the Limpopo textbook debacle.
In a meeting of regional heads, the African Christian Democratic Party said policies on nationalisation and land reform were scaring away investors.
The Democratic Alliance claims the ANC in the City of Johannesburg wants to develop a secrecy Bill for the municipality.
Despite the heated outcry over a previous power station tender, the ANC’s business arm has gone on to benefit from a multibillion-rand Eskom deal.
Mathews Phosa, the man likely to lose control of the ANC’s purse strings come Mangaung, is now one of the proponents of party funding reform.
Hamid Shabbir’s hard-hitting statement to the Hawks has implicated Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block in a hospital tender scandal.
Mahumapelo has pocketed at least R200000 through his travel agency’s business dealings with an ailing municipality in the province.
The ANC is under intense pressure to release reports about the problems that plague the province.
The debate about the nationalisation of SA mines continues merrily but it is taking place in astounding ignorance of the actual legal position.
Former president FW de Klerk has called on all South Africans to be more politically active to combat the ANC’s national democratic revolution.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has reaffirmed the primacy of ANC branches in electing the party’s leadership.