The finance minister confirmed he had been approached by the police about a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault
The ANC’s integrity commission has criticised the party’s officials and the national executive committee for suppressing and ignoring its recommendations in its annual report
This cannot be rectified without redistributing wealth and property – and therefore power
The party’s top officials seem to have no real inclination to follow through with the integrity commission’s recommendations on corruption
Thousands of jobs retained as plant goes back into full production following clean-up operation
eThekwini metro and KwaDukuza municipality are likely to face similar challenges as the Msunduzi municipality
Parties are bringing the motion in response to the Phala Phala scandal, two months after tabling another for his impeachment on the same grounds
The competing factions in the party put power before national interests
Hopefully the first woman premier of KwaZulu-Natal won’t have to wear a headscarf and can continue her studies
Opposition parties plan to strip the ANC of its control of the city
Four members of the ANC provincial executive have joined the new provincial cabinet
The new appointments are expected to be made from Thursday
The wireless headset is good for working at home and in the office
Analysis of the the resolutions taken at the party’s policy talks show it will take good leadership and bold action to restore the ANC
The government has had many plans to boost the economy since 1994 but none have achieved their targets
It can neither hold the centre nor lead society. The recent policy conference was bereft of new ideas
We need courageous, responsible leaders to save our state-owned enterprises, denuded of money and talent, to save the rapid deterioration of our hospitals and schools and to raise awareness and concern for the plight of the poor
The committee system in parliament is broken and ANC committee members abuse their majority.
The municipality spent more than R13 000 to cover mayor’s costs for a meeting on HIV/Aids, which officials say he did not show up for
Moral duality characterises collective societies. One set of norms applies to in-group members; a different set applies to out-group individuals. The governing party’s collectivist politics is divisive and paralysing
The province’s leaders are calling for mob rule and will try to convince their comrades at this weekend’s national policy conference to support their untenable position
There was strong support for the president’s recent announcement of interventions to help stabilise Eskom and improve its plant performance
The idea was rejected at the governing party’s last policy conference in 2017
The former president believes that the policy conference must come out with a recommendation giving the integrity committee more teeth
The ANC chairperson allegedly accused delegates of wanting to collapse the conference after calls to assess the NEC’s performance
The resolution to heed state capture recommendations will survive ANC conference because the president can proclaim commitment to renewal while scandal corners him into compromise
The land policy debate will feature, again, within the ANC’s elective contestations
The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration since the outbreak of the pandemic
Plans to convert the forum into a national general council meeting to review and scrap the regulation will probably be thwarted by the ANC’s top brass
Madikizela prides himself on having run a “tight ship” in the Eastern Cape public works department
If the conference is misjudged then, like the Titanic, the ANC will sink
With high prices continuing to bear down on consumers the world over, leaders who fail to bring inflation to heel could face a reckoning