African National Youth League leader Julius Malema’s arch-rival helps Gwede Mantashe kill off the last efforts to challenge Malema’s authority.
Differences have emerged about what the ANC Youth League should do with its business arm, Lembede Investments.
The fires of dissent catching at the coats of the ANC Youth League’s new leadership have been quelled.
A tense meeting between an ANC delegation and leaders of the Merafong Demarcation Forum was under way in Khutsong on Wednesday.
It is possible for business in South Africa and the ANC to harmonise their goals, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
The situation in Zimbabwe is now out of control, ANC president Jacob Zuma told a conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
ANC deputy president Kgalema Molanthe that Julius Malema’s remarks would be discussed at the ANC’s national working committee meeting next week.
KwaZulu-Natal finance minister Zweli Mkhize is the new African National Congress chairperson in the province, replacing Premier S’bu Ndebele.
The province’s overwhelming support for Zuma has left it less divided than other provinces.
The ANC wants its deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, to be given a Cabinet post, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Friday.
French arms company Thint could not comment on Friday on its alleged financial contribution to an ANC conference under way in KwaZulu-Natal.
The disappearance of delegates’ names and other data from voters’ rolls is apparently rife at regional ANC conferences.
The most grievous damage inflicted by the ANC’s leadership struggle is the growing political contamination of our legal system.
More revelations surfaced this week about Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s alleged attempt to influence Constitutional Court judges.
The ANC on Tuesday slammed as ”reckless” a youth leader’s threat to take up arms for party head Jacob Zuma as he faces corruption charges.
The African National Congress (ANC) is expected to focus on disciplining bad behaviour within its ranks, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Monday.
A row over the development of one of Cape Town’s most popular coastal sites has taken a sharply political turn.
Approval of Zuma as party president is hovering around 36% in urban areas, according to surveys conducted in February and April by research firm TNS.
With his popularity waning, ANC president Jacob Zuma faces a series of hurdles.
Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein on Friday called for an ”independent, unfettered” investigation into the controversial arms deal.
There was no need for apprehension once the term of the current South African government came to an end, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said in China.
The African National Congress’s Western Cape secretary, Mcebisi Skwatsha, was stabbed in the neck at an ANC meeting on Thursday evening.
Both leading candidates for the presidency of the ANC Women’s League seen as strong supporters of Jacob Zuma.
President Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, leader of the ruling African National Congress, have denied that they are enemies and that Mbeki will step down early.
A fresh court bid by ANC members this week challenging Free State party chairperson Ace Magashule and his executive has thrown a harsh light on infighting among provincial ANC chiefs.
When was the last time you heard from Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff, Northern Cape’s Dipuo Peters or even KwaZulu-Natal’s S’bu Ndebele? I reckon not lately. It may be true that some, such as Marshoff and Peters, have always had a low public profile anyway. But Shilowa and Ndebele?
Freedom of expression, says cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, should only be limited when exercising it would cause physical harm or death. He was speaking at a discussion themed Cartoonists: Where Do We Draw the Line?, hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand journalism department on Tuesday.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma sat quietly in the front row of the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, listening to his legal team challenge the validity of the warrants used to seize documents that could be used against him in his forthcoming corruption trial.
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There is no statute determining exactly what provisions should be in a search warrant, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday as African National Congress president Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thint began a last-ditch bid to prevent key documents from being used against them.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma arrived at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday amid a heavy security presence and the sound of camera shutters as photographers attempted to shoot pictures. A heavy police presence was visible around the court buildings while journalists packed the press gallery trying to get a view of Zuma.
The emergence of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) indicates there are problems in the media, South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) CEO Tseliso Thipanyane said on Tuesday. ”What is going wrong in media rooms to lead to the establishment of the FBJ?” he asked at a discussion on how the media cover race and racism
The man accused of setting fire to the African National Congress Luthuli House headquarters last week will appear in court again on March 10. Magistrate Steff Bezuidenhout on Monday said the case would be postponed so that the man’s particulars could be verified.