The party’s secretary general perceives judges as anti-majoritarian contesters of political power.
The pernicious claim is that because Parliament is elected any move to question its actions represents an undemocratic subversion of the popular will.
In a bid to smarten its pre-election face, the ruling party wants popular heavyweights in its corner.
More than 200 members of Parliament decided that the president urgently needed a salary raise. It will be backdated to April.
The ruling party admits that it has heeded only one recommendation of its much-vaunted integrity commission that was set up in 2013.
The ANC says the Methodist Church may "revisit" a ban on its ministers serving as party chaplains. Not so, says the church.
The ANC says the Methodist Church may "revisit" a ban on its ministers serving as party chaplains. Not so, says the church.
The NEC has said the trade union federation divisions remained unresolved because the factions ignored the recommendations of the ANC task team.
An internal report has revealed that ANC voters believe the party is performing poorly in combating crime and corruption, and in creating jobs.
Inconsistent mining, land reform and BEE policies are causing investors to be wary of South Africa, says former ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa.
The public works minister says a bleak future awaits the ruling party if their student arm, Sasco, continues to lose support to the DA and EFF.
The ANC is desperate to hold on to Nelson Mandela Bay but the appointment of Danny Jordaan as mayor may be met with hostility within the party itself.
Hot on the heels of its intervention in Nelson Mandela Bay, the ANC is shifting its attention to the instability in its biggest region – eThekwini.
The ANC secretary general has launched a personal attack on "ill-disciplined" journalists claiming to be "ANC experts".
Despite claims that the "crime crackdown" discriminates against foreign nationals, Gwede Mantashe says Operation Fiela has the ANC’s full support.
"Post-1994 some people are joining [the ANC] because of material [things], love for positions and basking in glory," worries KZN premier Senzo Mchunu.
Eastern Cape leadership wants the soccer boss as Nelson Mandela Bay’s mayor to retain the key metro and revive its fortunes before 2016 elections.
The M&G should not allow itself to be used … to fight narrow factional battles, with information drip-fed to journalists.
The ruling party wants to ensure that those who stand in local elections have community support.
Critical issues cut to the heart of the party’s recent record, which is perhaps why its leaders are failing to speak out.
Zuma inherited a divided ANC from Mbeki, but the party heading to the council is now terminally ill.
President Jacob Zuma has chastised leaders for sowing divisions within the tripartite alliance, and has called for a retreat to iron out the issues.
The real problem between black and white South Africans is not white people’s attitude, but the government’s desertion of black people.
The ANC’s Gwede Mantashe has canned the results of the party’s eThekwini regional conference over claims of branch manipulation and cash for votes.
Only the courts and civil society can stem the drift from constitutionalism to an unfettered executive.
Party spin doctors reportedly want to ‘reclaim’ the public broadcaster to polish the president’s halo.
We must see the evidence of how views held by some ANC top brass may have led to the death of people living and working in South Africa.
Ray McCauley mediated between the ANC and EFF as their issues were deemed moral, not political. But who are our moral figureheads?
Increasingly, we are looking to senior members of the ANC to put the country before their political careers and bank balances.
The ANC in North West cannot explain how it spent at least R9-million allocated to it to fund political programmes.
The election of Blade Nzimande’s ally and South African Communist Party provincial chairperson made for an interesting realignment of ANC politics.
Parliament’s presiding officers will deal with the EFF in the same way they did during the Sona, if the parliamentary debate is disrupted next week.