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
Five years after being told to fix South Africa’s unconstitutional cannabis laws, the state has failed to do so
Obsessive consultation is a pronounced feature of Ramaphosa’s leadership style, however, it has done him – and the country – few favours
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
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
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
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
The ANC’s reaction to the Zondo findings was a precursor of its attitude to the Ngcobo ‘Farmgate’ report
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
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
Disgruntled would-be national executive committee members are going to court over their failure to make the top 200 names
The former soldiers want the state to pay them R4 million each in reparations
The president’s review application asks the constitutional court, again, to determine how parliament should deal with the political scandal
The ANC treasurer is being punted as a compromise — rather than a compromised — presidential candidate
In an application filed to the constitutional court, the president argued that the panel failed to follow the rules when it recommended he face an impeachment inquiry
The decision was announced by ANC treasurer general Paul Mashatile, at a meeting of the party’s national executive committee
Impeachment rules introduced for Jacob Zuma’s maleficence have caused Cyril Ramaphosa to trip
ANC national office bearers Paul Mashatile and David Mabuza were left in the dark as the president’s allies persuaded him from resigning