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
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
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
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.
The suspended ANC secretary general’s assistant, who is not prepared to testify against him, may be extradited from the US
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
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
Flashbacks of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday
National Freedom Party candidates in the Zululand town have gone into hiding amid fears that they will be targeted next
Malibongwe Dubazane is contesting all 14 of the IFP-run Nkandla local municipality’s wards
The DA appears to have abandoned its ambitions of 2016 and is set to lose further ground in the upcoming elections
One other man was shot dead and two others were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds
An ANC member has accused the Free State speaker of flouting the Electoral Act after the ANC list was changed twice, resulting in Mxolisi Dukwana being sworn in as a member of the provincial legislature
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has promised a more rigorous mayoral selection process, which will involve the party’s top six
At a time when unemployment and poverty must be tackled head on, our country appears rudderless
If Jacob Zuma is our Nelson Mandela, what does that leave Mzwanele Manyi?
The former president and the ‘RET’ faction will not bring the changes South Africa sorely needs
The apex court’s dismissal of the Democratic Alliance’s application to declare reopening candidate registration unlawful came as no surprise
The court dismissed Magashule’s claim that its scathing July judgment showed little sound reasoning, but rather a bias towards the Ramaphosa faction