South Africa’s poverty rate fell 11 percentage points (from 57% to 46%) between 2009 and 2011, Statistics South Africa has said.
The ruling party says demands by opposition parties for the IEC chair to step down are opportunistic.
The ruling party has won a majority of wards in the latest by-elections, which were held in nine wards across five provinces, according to the IEC.
EFF and Agang SA leaders’ ties to the province may disrupt old voting patterns.
The ANC blew a gasket after Gwede Mantashe offered to show journalists around the Nkandla homestead.
Judgment in the urgent application lodged by the ANC against the DA over a text message about President Jacob Zuma has been reserved.
Trade union federation president S’dumo Dlamini says Cosatu is going through a difficult period as the battle over Zwelinzima Vavi continues.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has found himself in several tough spots, while trying to defend the ANC’s position on Nkandla.
The Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa has lodged an official objection to Jacob Zuma’s candidacy for presidency in the May elections.
The ANC is set to take the DA to court over an SMS about President Jacob Zuma and his Nkandla homestead.
The banning of political party investment arms won’t solve the issue of party funding, the ANC says.
The ANC is not backing down from its stance that police commissioner Riah Phiyega should be censured for misleading its national executive committee.
The department of labour’s draft regulations unfairly ignores regional demographics.
The ANC’s ‘poo two’ were reinstated to forestall any bid to take their popular support to another party.
If the ANC wants to be taken seriously in this Nkandla saga, it will need to show it by being tough on its senior leadership.
Loyiso Nkohla and Andile Lili have been re-instated as members of the ANC after they led protesters dumping human faeces around Cape Town.
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says people should challenge Thuli Madonsela on her Nkandla report and not insult the way she looks.
The ANC says youth league remarks about Thuli Madonsela are "in contrast" with its views and that it has confidence in the public protector’s office.
The ANC has labelled the Nkandla-related criminal charges laid against President Jacob Zuma by the DA and EFF void acts carried out in desperation.
Gwede Mantashe says the differences between the public protector’s Nkandla findings and that of the interministerial task team are cause for concern.
The president’s architect and Riah Phiyega seem to be the focus of the ANC’s damage control plans after Thuli Madonsela’s Nkandla report release.
The lobbying for female representation within the ANC is being used as a political tool as three male-led provinces are brought into the spotlight.
The ANC wants its white, coloured and Indian leaders to deliver more.
Hardliners in the party meet to strategise how to rubbish public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on Nkandla.
In a fictional land, the ruler of a private residence, Nkandla, is determined to foil the public protector’s plan to bring about an end to the ANC.
The ANC in Limpopo welcomes a decision to place the Mogalakwena local municipality under scrutiny, which it says is in the interest of residents.
Parties have cozied up to royal family members, churches and students at the weekend in a bid to gain support as the national election draws nearer.
The ANC in Gauteng says it will investigate whether an armed man depicted in media reports on violent clashes in Bekkersdal is a member of the party.
A handful of fringe church leaders have taken on Thuli Madonsela, praying against "demons" in their bid to defend the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
Political parties say that their priority in putting forth their candidate lists this year has been to submit credible people with no bad records.
Cyril Ramaphosa is in the front line of the party’s bid to wrestle the Western Cape from the DA.
President Jacob Zuma has gone biblical in his forecasts of power for the ANC, in a semantic shift in the way the party speaks of itself and opposers.