A lack of regulation over political party funding was the biggest threat to democracy in SA, political analyst Steven Friedman said on Wednesday.
ANC president Jacob Zuma emerged as the favourite politician followed by DA leader Helen Zille among people questioned in a new pre-election survey.
The ANC has made serious mistakes on public service deployment, BEE and land reform, the party’s treasurer-general Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday.
The NPA’s statement explaining its decision to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma closely resembles a judgement handed down in Hong Kong.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma is suing the Guardian for defamation over an article that described his leadership style as ”morally contaminated”.
Politicians warring for votes on the country’s lamp posts are decidedly unhappy at attacks on their carefully composed posters.
Former president Thabo Mbeki is a ”conniving” person who betrayed the legacy of struggle icon Nelson Mandela, the ANC’s election head said on Tuesday.
Political parties have stepped up the rhetoric ahead of the elections, with Jacob Zuma saying a vote for a party other than the ANC was a wasted vote.
The Freedom Front Plus wants ANC MP Butana Komphela investigated and prosecuted for corruption and blackmail, it said on Sunday.
The ANC has defended Springbok rugby coach Peter de Villiers’s public endorsement of the party, saying he had the right to support any party.
An election rally in honour of freedom fighter Chris Hani on Saturday was turned into a day of mudslinging by the alliance partners of the ANC.
DA leader Helen Zille reiterated her call for ANC president Jacob Zuma to have his day in court, either to be acquitted or convicted.
ANC president Jacob Zuma’s attorney Michael Hulley has dismissed as ”ill-informed and ludicrous” the DA’s move to lay a charge against him.
ANC T-shirt suppliers are all local, the ruling party said on Thursday after reports that it sourced T shirts totalling millions of rands from China.
Cope presidential candidate Mvume Dandala hit the campaign trail in Soweto on Thursday.
DA leader Helen Zille hit out at critics of her dance moves on Wednesday, saying dancing and singing were part of South Africa’s culture.
Thabo Mbeki has again denied any political interference in the Jacob Zuma matter, calling for vigilance against ”spreading deliberate falsehoods”.
Interest rate cuts are among the policy responses proposed to minimise the impact of the global financial downturn, it was reported on Wednesday.
Race is one of the powerful factors driving voters in an election, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies said on Tuesday.
The leadership of the ANC and its alliance partners would accompany party president Jacob Zuma as the final curtain is drawn over his legal battle.
Umshini Wam, the trademark song of ANC leader Jacob Zuma rang out across the hills of his rural Nkandla village in KZN on Monday.
Dropping corruption charges against ANC leader Jacob Zuma does not amount to an acquittal, Mokotedi Mpshe said on Monday.
Prosecutors will announce on Monday whether they will drop charges against Jacob Zuma, in a case that has threatened to damage his leadership.
SA will meet a 2014 target to halve unemployment, a Cabinet minister said on Saturday, despite the prospect of rising job losses.
As the ANC played host to members of minority communities in Sandton on Saturday night, Cope’s Mvume Dandala took his campaign to the Free State.
Cosatu deputy president Violet Seboni was killed in a car accident while travelling to Mafikeng for an ANC election campaign, the union said.
DA leader Helen Zille owes the FF Plus an apology for her ”shockingly untrue statements”, the party’s leader Pieter Mulder said on Friday.
The Congress of the People’s Mvume Dandala moved his party’s election to the rails this week as he mingled with commuters.
ANC president Jacob Zuma spent the day on Thursday wooing the Afrikaans community, a move he insisted was not mere electioneering.
Prosecutors staged a surprise comeback this week in their battle with the National Prosecuting Authority’s chiefs over charges against Jacob Zuma.
The ANC is ”increasingly disturbed” by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s comments on the investigation against its president Jacob Zuma.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is not looking forward to a Jacob Zuma presidency, he said in Durban on Wednesday evening.