The anti-apartheid archives provide an understanding of our past and therefore present, something Palestinians no longer have
Khoza raised eyebrows after posting a recent photograph of herself and her once stated nemesis, Jacob Zuma, on social media
The court’s decision means the ruling party remains compelled to hand over its deployment records to the Democratic Alliance
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The figment of his imagination has defined the president’s timid tenure
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The party won a moral victory when it went to the World Court to take on the US-backed Israel but it must clean up its own house and have the same care for South Africans
There is a tendency to think of the president as ineffective. But his first term has seen a marked hastening of structural reforms, which could change the economy forever
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IEC records bumper registration weekend as voter’s roll exceeds 27 million for the first time since 1994
The former president is hoping that it will be third time lucky for him in this election round of their battle
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The ANC Women’s League has said that the graft-accused former mayor and eThekwini region heavyweight is one of its ‘best campaigners’
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In 2022, at least four employees working in eThekwini’s water and sanitation unit were killed
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In 1979, 25 years after the anti-colonial conference in Indonesia, the ANC leader recalled the ‘spirit of Bandung’ when he called for the freedom of South Africans and Palestinians
The NEC has finally agreed that exceptional circumstances warranted the former president’s suspension, but it hasn’t yet told him personally
The president’s visit and promise of housing is seen as an effort to garner ANC votes over the MK party ahead of elections
Whether the ANC can keep the lights on will be a key factor heading into elections
The axed ANC leader showed he won’t pull punches to get votes
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Fikile Mbalula denies that bringing the former Durban mayor back into the fold is a way to neutralise the Jacob Zuma-affiliated MK party
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A small crowd of about 300 gathered in Tembisa in anticipation of seeing their hero
ANC veterans have been seconded to help screen those implicated in state capture
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The uMkhonto weSizwe Party wants Jacob Zuma back in office despite the Constitution barring this
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Regardless of how the 2024 elections end, the ruling party must undergo radical political transformation to survive
The ANC treasurer general said people can donate R10 to R30 to the ANC using an SMS code and from R100 to R99 000 through electronic fund transfers
Vision Partners say they will “engage and settle” with the SA Sugar Association
ANC president says the party fears no new or existing party going into this year’s historic poll
The secretary general’s truth talk this week has turned the blaze on his comrades in the ANC
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Load-shedding and unity are set to dominate the president’s address, which comes at a low point for the party
No decision from the ANC party leadership yet on how to how to handle the former president
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Fikile Mbalula and other ANC officials are now at pains to say that his words were ‘a joke’ and ‘political rhetoric’
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Pop star George Michael articulated best the dangers of removing idealism from politics
The fightback against Zuma’s defection and launch of the MK party has begun
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Bidder says rescue practitioners tried to manipulate process to favour ANC funder Robert Gumede
South Africa has descended into what Gramsci called a ‘catastrophic equilibrium’
The disgraced former SABC boss also has ambitions of becoming premier of the Free State
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