Analysts have been left scratching their heads at rumours that some are trying to convince Kgalema Motlanthe not to challenge Jacob Zuma at Mangaung.
Some ANC branches in KwaZulu-Natal want axed police commissioner Bheki Cele to be a member of the party’s national executive committee.
The race hots up as nominations for the ANC leadership opened, and membership grows in Zuma’s stronghold but what does this mean for the other contenders?
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has blasted the political agendas and alleged abuse of state agencies in the expelled youth leader’s case.
What will happen when the ANC and its trade union allies are no longer unquestioningly accepted as the sole legitimate representatives of poor?
Insiders say that Kgalema Motlanthe is prepared to run for the ANC’s presidency, but not on behalf of any faction that hopes to trade on his success.
There’s been a lot of talk of leadership lately, at conferences in Sandton and among ordinary South Africans. Much of that talk is about its absence.
When the time comes to nominate new ANC leadership, the party’s eThekwini region will support President Jacob Zuma, its chairperson says.
The Marikana massacre has exposed an increasingly tense relationship between the ANC leadership and its fractious members in North West.
Officials opposed to the premier’s re-election in the Free State were axed but he says he is working to unite the ANC.
Alliance and union leaders are working to have Zwelinzima Vavi removed as Cosatu’s general secretary, in the first-ever challenge to his leadership.
Zwelinzima Vavi says the ANC has been unable to reassert the organisation’s mission and strategic vision.
The ANC is under intense pressure to release reports about the problems that plague the province.
With the African National Congress beset by factionalism, is the province still 100% Jacob Zuma? Niren Tolsi investigates.
The Reserve Bank’s monetary policy is out of line with the ANC alliance’s focus on employment creation, wrties Numsa’s Irvin Jim.
The ANC’s policy documents say that owning businesses presents serious problems that could harm the party, writes Tabelo Timse.
Kgalema Motlanthe has finally shown his hand, questioning the ANC’s so-called second transition and seemingly headed for a showdown with Jacob Zuma.
Former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has labelled President Jacob Zuma a tribalist, dictator and an angry man.
After a decade of self-congratulation, SA is coming to a triple realisation that is exacting a heavy toll on its psyche, writes Achille Mbembe.
It is fervently to be hoped that the discussion documents produced ahead of the ANC’s policy conference are just that, the basis for discussion.
The acting director general of the department of state security has caused a stir by shooting down many of the proposed amendments to the Bill.
Zuma’s backers and foes in the ANC’s top brass have nailed their colours to the mast in a fiery meeting in which he was accused of suppressing debate.
Miffed African National Congress says it will take its claims about the disputed tender to the Public Service Commission.
The proposed sale of 20% of Telkom to a Korean firm was simply politically unpalatable, analysts say. Lloyd Gedye reports.
The ANC’s top brass has thrown a lifeline to suspended ANCYL treasurer general Pule Mabe by instructing the league to review his dismissal.
Kelley Moult & Yonina Hoffman-Wanderer argue that it is time for the ANC to put its money where its mouth is on gender equality.
The ANC tends to dismiss any complaints about its consolidation of power as criticism motivated by anti-majoritarian liberalism.
In what turned out to be a peaceful march on the Goodman Gallery, ANC leaders celebrated how the show of support for Jacob Zuma won them the battle.
Delegates at the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal congress have decided that the leadership in the province will not change.
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/ 3 December 2010
Trevor Manuel jetted into Cape Town to help ANC leaders unify.
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/ 1 September 2010
The public sector strike turned ugly because President Jacob Zuma was surrounded by people who failed to advise him correctly, the SACP says.
Having read them all, I am none the wiser as to the role that the ruling party sees for the state, writes <b>Richard Calland</b>.