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.
Religion was all but shunned by the ruling party after 1994, but it has returned to the political realm.
Political interference with Sars is a serious attack on the independence of the institution.
The government plans to ‘punish’ newspapers that paint it in a negative light by withholding advertising revenue.
The party hopes to quietly rub out the millions in "tainted money" it received from late business tycoon Brett Kebble.
ANC finance manager Nhlanhla Mabaso has said the party can only afford to pay off R150 000 a month of its R6.5m debt.
Elements of the ruling party appear to be driving a campaign to bring the revenue service to heel.
The ANC has accused opposition parties of disrupting Parliament with headline-seeking stunts as the EFF heads to the Concourt over its suspended MPs.
The eThekwini regional conference is now expected to take place from December 19 to 21, after being postponed for "logistical reasons".
Zwelinzima Vavi says union leaders must stop acting like bosses who can make decisions without touching base with their union members.
The DA says it is preparing itself for the next part of the battle, the battle against the “undemocratisation” of Parliament.
The party is arguing that increased financial support to political parties would enhance democracy.
The trade union is concerned that the paper’s circulation is part of a trend to destabilise its plans to form a United Front opposed to the ANC.
EFF MPs have been suspended from Parliament without pay for disrupting proceedings when they shouted "pay back the money" at the president.
Legal consultant Brenda Madumise has admitted to receiving R1m in cash from the Czech fugitive.
The Moët flowed, delegates chanted (badly) and President Jacob Zuma was told to shut up. This ANCYL gathering was very "redical" for a non-conference.
The "good story" the ruling party had to tell has cost the ANC 47% of its overall budget since 2012.
Allegations of police abuse at the Durban hostel hark back to the 1980s conflict with Inkatha, but this time the ANC appears to be devouring its own.
Striking workers at a Swazi mine co-owned by ANC-linked investment company Chancellor House and King Mswati III fear "a second Marikana".
Striking workers at a mine in Swaziland linked to the ANC fear that a strong police presence could lead to a second Marikana.