Competition over UN, AU jobs and economic rivalries are escalating tension between the powerhouses of Africa’s north and south, writes Charles Molele.
Factional battles and sometimes fisticuffs continue to roil ANC provincial structures as the party prepares for its elective conference at Mangaung.
Despite differences over worker-related issues, the union will stand behind the ANC leadership, write Charles Molele and Matuma Letsoalo.
Free State premier Ace Magashule is facing down disgruntled ANC members who are hoping to oust him at the party’s provincial conference in June.
The SACP appears to be at a political crossroads if its policy documents released this week are anything to go by, writes Charles Molele.
Zuma acknowledged his administration’s poor service delivery at a business function days before his administration releases its midterm review report.
Zwelinzima Vavi says his absence from the programme of the four-day congress of the National Union of Mineworkers is not due to factional fighting.
Bheki Cele says he will wait for the outcome of the inquiry into his fitness to hold office before discussing his political future.
The lowest point of the ANC KZN conference was Jacob Zuma’s failure to censure ill-disciplined members who threatened violence against his detractors.
Party structures in KwaZulu-Natal have joined their peers in Limpopo in their endorsement of nationalisation.
The former minister Sicelo Shiceka was a committed activist whose political career was cut short by excess.
Former cooperative governance minister Sicelo Shiceka’s epitaph should possibly read: Here lies one of the most corrupt politicians in South Africa.
A faction favouring Kgalema Motlanthe for the ANC presidency is the Free State has begun to dislodge Ace Magashule as the provincial chairperson.
A practising Muslim, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool has been trying to mend fences between Islam and the West.
Youth League wants political solution for its suspended leaders.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s arguments in mitigation have begun amid speculation that he might be expelled from the ruling party.
As its NEC lekgotla kicks off, the ANC Youth League remains determined that Julius Malema will not be replaced, even if his suspension takes effect.
Prasa chief Lucky Montana is accused of tender irregularities worth more than R1-billion and organising an unauthorised trip to Cape Town for friends.
Attempts to disband the ANC’s Limpopo provincial executive committee have been rejected by the party’s national executive committee meeting.
The appeals committee ruling has failed to clear the air and uncertainty surrounding Julius Malema’s future with the organisation.
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will run again for the position of African Union Commission chair at the next AU Summit in June.
The ANC Youth League claims it has hard evidence of a political vendetta being waged against its leaders through a leaked email.
Pro and anti-Zuma officials are lashing out at each other as Cyril Ramaphosa prepares to hear ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s appeal.
It is not a case of if Moe Shaik is leaving the secret service, insiders in the murky world of state intelligence say, it is when — and for how much.
As President Zuma prepares to address the ANC’s centenary celebrations, the youth league and Cosatu are fuming over being denied the chance to speak.
Staff question the reasons for a second office move in less than two years and stay put.
An anti-Jacob Zuma lobby group in the ANC has asked embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema to step aside as the face of its campaign.
Embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been nominated by the Limpopo province to serve on the ANC’s provincial committee.
The ANC has spared its president Jacob Zuma possible embarrassment by not sending him to address the party’s Limpopo congress.
Despite the increasing pressure on him to step down as Limpopo premier, Cassel Mathale looks likely to be re-elected as provincial ANC chairperson.
The Cabinet has been warned that poor service delivery poses a security risk for the country.
President Jacob Zuma has declared war on ANC leaders who continue to leak confidential information to the media.