EFF members were thrown out of Parliament after they disrupted President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address, and the DA walked out in protest.
The party says the power utility is harming the government and has taken control of its communications.
Julius Malema could have proved his critics wrong but didn’t. Verashni Pillay lists five mistakes that have created such disgruntlement in the party.
It’s tough being middle class when circumstances conspire to deprive you of basics such as running water and electricity, writes Adrian Ephraim.
Dumisa Ntuli, spokesperson for the ANC in Gauteng died in a car accident on Sunday, the party said.
The political antics of the coming months could set the tone for the next 20 years, writes Richard Calland.
All the whitewashing after Jackie Selebi’s funeral looks suspiciously like another attack from Zuma’s circle on the National Prosecuting Authority.
Ahead of elections and President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address, the ruling party has admitted it messed up and broke many promises.
The voters’ patience is waning, even turning violent.
The ruling party is to roll out new tribunals and processes in an attempt to clean up its act.
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The ANC in Parliament has flexed its muscle, proposing a ban on hard hats and overalls worn by EFF members, and blocking the use of secret ballots.
The ANC top brass have proposed limiting the amount of land South Africans can own and the party won’t wait for the law to be tested constitutionally.
The complicated nature of government and the negative impact of political appointments make running the country a nightmare.
The DA has hailed the ConCourt ruling as a victory for freedom of expression, while the ANC sees it as a reaffirmation that the message was opinion.
The ruling, which found that the DA was within its rights to say Zuma had stolen taxpayer money, was one that would "liberate fair comment".
La Grange sparked a debate on Twitter on Saturday after saying she felt white people were not welcome in South Africa, a comment that the ANC refutes.
In response to a proposal to rename Table Bay Boulevard after former president FW de Klerk, the ANC says he played no part in liberating South Africa.
I feel tainted by my association with the Independent Media group. It is time to depart once again. I will betray my own past if I don’t.
An SAfm debate on ethics in journalism got heated this morning when Independent Media’s Karima Brown took exception to what was being discussed.
The party’s Freedom Charter unites the struggles of all – including the Khoisan – under one banner.
The ruling party depends on patronage and clientelism and can’t talk to its constituency, writes Raymond Suttner.
The ANC believes it is well on its way to fulfilling promises made in the Freedom Charter, but Numsa tells a different story.
The EFF says that the ANC’s lack of foresight is to blame for the energy issues affecting South Africa, and not apartheid, as Jacob Zuma has said.
Thousands of supporters gather at the Cape Town Stadium as the ANC kicks off the party’s 103rd birthday celebration.
The ruling party is keeping its strategy to recapture lost metros and keep control of others close to its chest.
Entering 2015, it feels as though we should be a nation on tranquillisers. But, at the same time, there are encouraging signs for South Africa.
From Magna Carta to Rosa Parks, these are the events that will take place in 2015.
Companies will spend a small fortune to mingle with the ruling party’s bigwigs at its birthday bash in the Western Cape next week.
Those who claim to be the prime champions of the drive for “radical transformation” must be willing to radically transform themselves.
Yolanda Botha, who served in Parliament’s social development portfolio committee, died over the weekend.
Okay, it was an election year, but 2014 saw ever more books on South African politics emerge. Shaun de Waal rounds up the most notable of them.
Religious leaders want an end to favouritism as they adopt a more critical political stance.