ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has asked Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Ramaphosa’s ‘failure to report corruption’
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There will be losers and winners as the provinces prepare for their elective conferences and slates are sealed. Find out who is trading.
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Concerns abound about the parliament fire, with insiders saying the timing was suspicious and the truth may never come out, while intelligence and security clusters are worried.
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Lindiwe Sisulu’s broadside isn’t the only attack on SA’s supreme law.
The party’s founders focused it’s mission on the problem of the day – land – which remains a central issue. Yet, since 1994, the ANC has been hesitant and timid in resolving the land question.
The suspended secretary general says he was not aware the ANC logo was used to promote an event he would attend that had nothing to do with the party’s anniversary celebrations.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo found that the subversion of the procurement system and the decimation of previously sound parastatals happened on the watch of a ruling party that not only dropped the ball but pocketed the proceeds
The disgraced former health minister is spotted on posters punting him as the next leader after his R150m corruption scandal
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Conference delegates resolved that Babalo Madikizela should be considered for chair with Terris Ntuthu as secretary.
A too narrow focus on the number of convictions from the final report of the state capture commission will mean a failure to see the impact it has already had
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The NPA has insisted in an affidavit in response to Ace Magashule’s application for a raft of declaratory orders that he has a prima facie case to answer
The past is helpful in understanding the predatory and violent nature of political factionalism in the province. But it doesn’t answer the question of how to fix it.
Former speaker Thandi Modise’s refusal to allow MPs to vote in secret on a motion of no confidence against President Cyril Ramaphosa was not rational, the SCA held
No clear winners after weeks of jostling for 160 hung municipalities
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Three days and three nights of skulduggery keep the Son of Man out of Durban’s mayoral parlour
Flawed process may still end up in court
Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipalities go to the Democratic Alliance, with eThekwini set to follow.
South Africa’s 66 hung municipalities have to constitute councils or face a rerun of elections
Those haggling over the keys to Durban city hall can’t smell the shit in the harbour
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is understood to have been part of talks that swung the agreement, which is a ‘governance plan’ rather than a coalition
The regime’s last president may have ushered in democracy but he refused to take responsibility for the deeds of his National Party government
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Moroadi Cholota, the woman at the heart of the state’s case against Ace Magashule, claims that the Hawks with the assistance of the FBI attempted to coerce and coach a statement out of her unrelated to her testimony at the Zondo commission.
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The suspended ANC secretary general’s assistant, who is not prepared to testify against him, may be extradited from the US
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Burning a city and asking its residents to vote for you appears to have been a bit of a stretch for Durban’s electorate
Hung municipal councils, most crucially in several metros, mean the ANC will have to find partners to be able to govern
The prosecution in Magashule’s corruption trial said Moroadi Cholota refused to cooperate with detectives sent to the US to interview her and she now faces extradition
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The Inkatha Freedom Party is on track to take control of five of the province’s 11 district municipalities
It’s the economy, stupid — but also service delivery and corruption. The ANC asks voters to forgive past sins, while the EFF tries to consolidate itself with wild promises of a socialist utopia
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Flashbacks of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday
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National Freedom Party candidates in the Zululand town have gone into hiding amid fears that they will be targeted next
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Malibongwe Dubazane is contesting all 14 of the IFP-run Nkandla local municipality’s wards
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The DA appears to have abandoned its ambitions of 2016 and is set to lose further ground in the upcoming elections
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