SA’s sport minister is speeding towards Formula One glory — never mind the potholes, power grid or the fiscal cliff
Critics don’t understand why citizens in the poorest provinces would still back the ruling party
Despite internal calls for him to step down, Stan Mathabatha vows to keep ‘cleaning up the mess’.
‘The result shows that the main opposition parties were put in the pound seats by the ANC voters who didn’t show up on election day.’
Top ANC members are putting their foot down and demanding that all key appointments be made through the ANC deployment committee.
More threatening to the constitutional vision for a future South Africa is a form of identity politics seizing people’s minds.
The country’s struggle is not over – a small cabal of rich people in the ruling party, which is revealing its democratic deficit, has taken over.
Julius Malema and other EFF MPs walked out of a disciplinary hearing about the "pay back the money" debacle, saying it was contaminated by the ANC.
Khaya Dlanga refuses to believe the ANC is trying to destroy SA but adds the ruling party’s carelessness and arrogance might derail the country.
President Jacob Zuma says many South Africans need to be educated about democracy because they do not understand how it works.
Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has told ANC members that they need to halt the "haemorrhaging" of the ruling party.
ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa has acknowledged that the party has neglected interaction with minorities and needs to become more inclusive.
ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa has acknowledged that the party has neglected interaction with minorities and needs to become more inclusive.
A Wits academic says the ANC policy documents to be debated at its policy conference next month show a party filled with tensions.
Free State premier Ace Magashule is facing down disgruntled ANC members who are hoping to oust him at the party’s provincial conference in June.
The ANC’s envisaged centralisation of policing has its supporters, but others remain sceptical.
We talk to editor-in-chief Nic Dawes about what we can expect from Zuma at this year’s State of the Nation address.
Debate on the future of the Scorpions gained new steam on Monday as the government released a report from an inquiry it had commissioned into the elite detective unit. The Scorpions still have a role to play in the country’s crime-fighting efforts, states the report that was submitted to President Thabo Mbeki two years ago.
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/ 18 February 2008
The acting head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Mokotedi Mpshe, on Monday said he was puzzled by statements saying the Scorpions are to be ”disbanded” on the one hand, and ”dissolved” on the other, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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/ 17 February 2008
Pity the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). Fifteen years ago this court — then led by the chief justice — was the highest court of appeal in South Africa. The prestige and standing of the judges serving on this court were unchallenged among the majority of influential South African lawyers and judges, and academics pored over their decisions and wrote learned articles about their decisions.
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/ 12 February 2008
In the second instalment of his interview with Kgalema Motlanthe, Ebrahim Harvey speaks to the ANC deputy president about healing division in the party, unity among the alliance partners and the Polokwane ‘revolution’.
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/ 6 December 2007
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The African National Congress will remain divided after its Polokwane conference, South African Communist Party chairperson Gwede Mantashe on Thursday. He was speaking at a public seminar about the future and challenges of the ANC. ”The ANC will come out more divided after Limpopo. Divisions will last longer if any of the main competing groups win.
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/ 4 September 2007
Government incompetence and not apartheid is to blame for the Land Bank’s woes, says the Freedom Front Plus (FF+). ”Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulama Xingwana’s accusation that the current problems of the Land Bank are the direct result of apartheid is a lame excuse,” FF+ agriculture and land affairs spokesperson Pieter Groenewald said on Tuesday.