The energy crisis has worsened SA’s existing economic challenges, prompting ratings agencies, the IMF and SARB to flag load-shedding as a significant barrier to recovery
The lawyers demanded that the DA give Kgosi Maepa documents on its ‘fit for purpose policy’ from September 2016 to January 2024
The president also assured grieving families that the government would provide assistance for those injured
The ANC needs to come up with serious plans to tackle unemployment, poverty and inequality, not just catchy phrases
The party wants to tie ministerial performance contracts to implementing key manifesto items
The governing party also said it would progressively work towards implementing a basic income support grant
No jobs, no lights, no water, but at least we have an election date in time for the ANC manifesto launch
The opposition party’s lawyers say it is ‘improbable’ that no records from 2013 to 2018 exist
The opposition’s constitutional challenge on the ANC’s cadre deployment was spun out of conjecture and speculation, a full bench found
ANC takes control of the cadre deployment narrative on the eve of its manifesto launch
The elections offer us the choice between the liberal/conservative group that offers no real benefits for the poor and working-class, and a populist, authoritarian form of kleptocratic nationalism
The election comes at a time when the governing ANC is at its weakest since 1994
ANC head of elections Mdumiseni Ntuli believes the president’s approval rating provides an advantageous platform for campaigning
A precedent has already been set by former president Jacob Zuma’s contempt of court order, opposition MP Siviwe Gwarube said
The DA leader delivered the official opposition’s rescue plan for South Africa on Saturday, saying ‘we are in it to win it’
The ruling party’s head of elections has said the ANC should be worried that members were moving to the new party while the IFP should also be concerned
Panellists had little confidence in President Ramaphosa’s address
The ANC is hoping to use the former president’s popularity among coloured voters to destabilise the Democratic Alliance
The mentality of denial and blame shifting has landed us where we are in 2024
Julius Malema is allegedly disappointed with the party’s leaders including deputy president Floyd Shivambu and Marshall Dlamini after its manifesto launch
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
The figment of his imagination has defined the president’s timid tenure
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
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
The ANC Women’s League has said that the graft-accused former mayor and eThekwini region heavyweight is one of its ‘best campaigners’
In 2022, at least four employees working in eThekwini’s water and sanitation unit were killed
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