The conference did not discuss exactly how the free education plan announced by President Jacob Zuma last Saturday would be implemented.
Obed Bapela made the annoucnement during a report back of the ANC’s governance and legislature committee at the party’s 54th national conference
The ANC’s Strategies and Tactics Commission for the most part stuck to the resolutions it took at its national policy.
Mbalula chaired the commission which discussed how to strengthen the party’s structures and control of government.
“Patriarchy is still in big problem in our society and the ANC must do everything in its power to make sure that women are being empowered"
The ANC’s national conference has been threatened with court action by delegates whose votes were not counted in elections for new leadership.
Deputy president DD Mabuza’s ascension to power is comparable to the apostle Paul’s Damascus moment, says former ANC Youth League leader Ronald Lamola
Though Dlamini-Zuma was snubbed at the ANC presidency, three of the candidates who had appeared on her slate made it to the top six.
The so-called “unity ticket” win on Monday evening sees the top six divided into three representatives from the CR17 and NDZ slates.
Mahumapelo says Ramaphosa supporters will put the ANC at “risk” by calling for a recount.
Zuma promised to reunite the ANC after he and Mbeki tore it apart in 2007, and now he leaves the top management of the party more divided.
The factions have finally become one but not everyone is happy with how the chips finally fell.
The ANC’s membership has been corrupted by rapid increases and declines, and is being used by recruiters to bolster support for factions.
Cyril Ramaphosa becomes the ANC’s 13th president
Vote counting has commenced at the Nasrec expo centre, in the south of Johannesburg, where delegates completed the voting process earlier today.
Black South Africans, who had not had the opportunities that generations of white farmers had, now had to play catch up.
One of the key policy considerations of the NDZ slate will be radical economic transformation, which has not been implemented since 2009.
Between midnight and sunrise five provinces cast their votes for the top leadership of the ANC, and top leaders were nailing their colours to the mast
‘The issue is not about the structure, but the personalities, people who get selected into those positions’
The ANC’s Veterans League plans to meet with presidential candidates in a bid to prevent further tensions over the party succession battle.
South Africans were not consistent in their outrage, she claimed.
Radical change is coming, says Rob Davies, and it will take the form of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
To take the ANC presidential seat, from the 4776 voting delegates, a candidate would need 2389 votes.
Having kicked off on Saturday, the ANC conference programme was already running almost a day behind when delegates departed that evening.
The ANC entered into an alliance with the SACP, Cosatu and Sanco in 1993, and has won elections with the three bodies campaigning for them since.
Read the full transcript of President Jacob Zuma’s speech at the ANC’s national conference plenary.
Maphatsoe lashed out at the courts, accusing the judiciary of planning to sabotage the ANC’s national conference.
The man who got the KZN provincial executive committee disqualified has suffered the same fate
The group is there to demand recognition as the first indigenous people in the land which now makes up the Republic of South Africa.
“Unity” is reportedly an instruction from ANC Mpumalanga chairperson DD Mabuza for branches not to pick an individual
The overwhelming threat posed by Eskom to the economy was the biggest concern for speakers at the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum on Saturday.
The Treasury had been engaging with credit ratings agencies about the possibility of a decision on higher education, says Gigaba.