Zweli Mkhize joins the race for ANC president, while David Mabuza changes tack
While the party talks up the land question it is repressing popular struggles for land.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has cautioned against the communist party’s consideration of independently contesting the 2019 general elections.
The ruling party appears to have lost claim to being a leader of society. This is clear from the outcome of its policy conference.
The general secretary urged members not to shy away from openly talking about succession as new leaders will be elected during the congress.
The policy conference of the governing ANC will be remembered for a party in disarray, plagued with internal dissent.
The ANC president’s compromise idea smacks of a leader backing a losing horse
Key region and its allies will have only five months to consolidate support
Seen as a voice of reason, the ANC treasurer says the party must work with business to turn the economy around
The secretary general’s salvo of biting words in his ANC diagnostic report has salvaged his legacy
Claims of bank collusion in a bid to sway the party leadership race have mounted
"At the end of it all, the policy conference was doomed to be a dull and useless affair"
The belligerence and divergent views expressed this past week leave little hope for self-correction
A contentious idea has resurfaced amid economic turmoil and corruption claims
Zuma’s suggestion, presented on the last day of the ANC’s national policy conference, took delegates by surprise and was met with hesitation.
Expropriation without compensation and nationalising the Reserve Bank are among the contentious policy options that have been put on the table.
The national executive committee member and former key policymaker refused to apologise for saying monopoly capital was not restricted to white people
A proposal to raise the age of child support grants to 21 was one of the toughest debates in the social transformation committee.
The ANC has adopted a policy recommendation made by the ANC in the Western Cape in a bid to reduce diplomatic ties to Israel.
The ANC says South Africa has elements of a colour revolution: the role of NGOs in nonviolent response to no leadership, corruption and state failure
The ANC national policy conference has proposed that the term white monopoly capital not be used in its vocabulary
The ANC chair said opposition parties have a right to settle disputes in court
"The autobiography has as its linchpin political history, in particular the history of the ANC in South Africa before, during and after being banned."
The Mail & Guardian spoke to political analysts about how the party can cleanse itself of corruption.
The M&G’s series of first-hand accounts of the ANC’s national conferences through the eyes of insiders continues with another delegate update
"Tambo said he had witnessed “honest and open reflection” at the policy conference"
The role of development finance to assist in the aims of radical economic transformation has come into sharp focus at the ANC policy conference
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, speaking on the sidelines of the ANC policy conference, said people were otherwise happy with the charter.
Calls for possible change to the Constitution and for state to set price tag on proper compensation
The Rainbow Nation narrative glosses over the failures of liberators who became rulers
The M&G’s series of first-hand accounts of the ANC’s national conferences through the eyes of insiders continues with another delegate update
A compromise now could smooth the way to the contest for presidential candidates in December