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Jobrg Mayor Dada Morero speaking. A memorial service is underway in Soweto for late politician and struggle stalwart, Mosiuoa Lekota. The 77-year-old anti-apartheid activist died last week after a long illness. In the years before his passing, Lekota served as the leader of the Congress Of The People (COPE), a party he helped form after breaking away from the African National Congress (ANC).  Photo Delwyn Verasamy

Morero jokes about no-confidence motions at Mosiuoa Lekota memorial

Joburg mayor humorously urged UDF leader Bantu Holomisa to stop his party’s councillor from filing motions of no confidence against him. Morero also honoured Lekota’s…

The God Edition | How faith guides South Africa’s politicians

For this year’s Mail & Guardian God Edition, we asked a number of the country’s prominent politicians what role faith plays in their lives

Zuma’s desire to remain an ANC member can’t be going down all that well in the MK party, especially in the Kingdom, its stronghold and the source of its national political presence. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Fish swim, birds fly, Zuma litigates

Is Zuma trying to rain on Cyril’s January 8 parade, or is uBaba feeling politically homesick?

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Lulama Zenzile/Die Burger/Gallo)

Ramaphosa may make space in cabinet for smaller parties

The Democratic Alliance has yet to say whether it will accept the president’s offer of six cabinet portfolios.

Nqabayomzi Kwankwa. File photo

UDM pays R10 000 ransom for ‘kidnapped’ deputy president

The party said its deputy president had been taken in Cape Town on Tuesday while driving to the airport

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa

Holomisa to stand as UDM Eastern Cape premier candidate

UDM founder appears ready to hand over control of the party

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa at the party’s manifesto launch, Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, on Saturday. Photo: X

UDM manifesto: Partial privatisation for Eskom, merit-based public posts

Leader Bantu Holomisa launched the party manifesto on Saturday, also promising zero tolerance for corruption

Hlaudi Motsoeneng. File photo

Hlaudi mulls joining forces with Ace after elections

The disgraced former SABC boss also has ambitions of becoming premier of the Free State

A restaurant owner counts money by candlelight. Photo: Leon Sadiki/Getty Images

Department of Public Enterprises

State capture is often cited as the the reason for the department’s ongoing failures, but its problems run far deeper

File photo: Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane during the Section 194 Impeachment Inquiry into her fitness to hold office in Parliament on May 08, 2023  in Cape Town. Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Mkhwebane removed from office

Several small opposition parties protested, but the ANC’s might carried the vote

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) could unseat the Democratic Alliance (DA) as official opposition in the 2024 general elections

Malema faces his first big challenge

Growth in next year’s election will kill off any threat to the EFF president’s hold on the party

Possible partner: Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema protests at the state of the nation address in Cape Town in February. (Esa Alexander/AFP)

ANC coalition debate expected to be the next proxy in factional battle

National executive committee members are at odds over a coalition with the EFF, with some vowing to lobby party leaders against the arrangement

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Mkhwebane tells parliament to help her find money for a lawyer

The suspended public protector suggested she would take the impeachment committee to court if it continued, despite her not having state funding

President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have forgotten the ANC’s decision on the ICC taken at Nasrec.(Photo Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Ramaphosa is wrong on the law, load-shedding litigants say

Only the government — not Eskom or municipalities — can address load-shedding by building more capacity and ensuring sufficient supply, the parties said

Former Eskom chief executive Andre De Ruyter. Photo: Supplied

A grid collapse or blackout would be catastrophic, says Andre de Ruyter in court papers

The maligned former Eskom CEO challenged the notion that it was foolish to shut ageing power stations and focus on procuring more renewable capacity