Readers write in about disappointment in the ANC, Jacob Zuma and the DA, and the correct meaning of inkabi.
The opposition won what it won not because they won over ANC supporters, but because those have stayed at home, disillusioned.
The EFF’s deputy president says the party would be open to having coalition talks with other opposition parties.
By 7am on Thursday, the DA had an early lead in the highly-contested Nelson Mandela Bay metro, followed by the ANC and EFF.
President Jacob Zuma is that latest, and biggest, name to cast his vote in the 2016 local government elections.
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jordaan has cast his vote in the metro.
The Mail & Guardian profiles mayoral candidates in three of the highly contested metros.
With just two days left before the local government elections, I haven’t as yet decided where I will place my ‘X’ on the ballot paper.
Former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe has lashed out at the ANC, calling the ruling party’s structures ‘bogus’.
Almost three years after his death, former president Nelson Mandela’s name continues to dominate South African politics.
Despite the factions and serious allegations that soured the organisation for many, some keep hope that the party is greater than one man’s mistakes.
Insiders reveal the party’s plan to take radical damage control steps after next week’s elections.
Links between the taxi industry and political killings in KZN are being investigated.
The embattled ANC Western Cape leader maintains he will campaign for the ANC and ‘doesn’t have to wait for an invite’.
A vote for the governing party can earn people the chance of a job, but it’s likely to be temporary.
From the president labelling independent candidates as ‘witches’ to the Cape Party’s secession plans, its a zany political scene.
The African National Congress said it was shocked after a ward councillor candidate was shot and killed in Nelson Mandela Bay on Tuesday.
President Jacob Zuma’s rural hometown is shaping up to be a prime election battleground, with the DA also throwing its hat into the ring.
The EFF is ‘disgusted’ by the decision to reinstate Marius Fransman as party leader in the Western Cape, spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said.
Deployment to SRC positions in the country’s universities is heating up infighting between members of the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA).
The KZN government should establish a commission of inquiry into what appeared to be politically-motivated murders, the KZN ANC said.
At the UN, South Africa did support web rights and moves to end violence based on sexual orientation. The devil was in the detail, says Edna Molewa.
If what the people in the street are saying is anything to go by, the ANC is in trouble in the country’s largest municipality.
We don’t have all the answers, unlike other parties, but we do promise to keep the status quo — of bewilderment, bafflement and bemusement.
The turnaround on the SABC’s policy speaks to the advantage of having a ruling party structured, on the face of it at least, to be bottom-up.
What if people not as herd voters or victims, but as individuals who belong to communities in dire need of infrastructure and education?
The ANC’s National Executive Committee’s sub-committee on communications has distanced itself from the banning of the coverage of violent protests.
Jackson Mthembu: "I can assure you that at the highest managerial level, we are lacking."
"I hear people complaining when we say the ANC will rule fully until Jesus comes back but we have been blessed. Pastors have prayed for us."
The proximate causes of the violence and destruction need to be untangled.
"The leadership says it hears your plea. We resolve problems through engagements," Ramokgopa told party members at a community hall in Atteridgeville.
Twenty buses were set alight and roads blocked as protests around the Tshwane region turned ugly on Monday night.