This threat comes despite the no confidence vote in the president being held by secret ballot.
Baleka Mbete’s announcement of a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against Jacob Zuma signals the start of an intense game of persuasion.
More are openly joining the fray in the race for the party’s leadership, but how do they stack up?
This comes after EFF leader, Julius Malema said the deputy president was non-white and not black in a rally last week
Ramaphosa, as leader of government business must encourage his MPs to show their interests "lie with the people of South Africa, not with Jacob Zuma."
Malema was addressing hundreds of Student Command members at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Westville campus.
After tiptoeing around contesting power the SACP is looking to strengthen its position now that the ANC is no longer the dominant force it used to be.
Ace Magashule’s deputy in the ANC in the Free State says concerns raised by the police minister are valid.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson died on Saturday
The suspended ANC provincial chair’s name has come up in a dispute in the Dullah Omar region
The deputy president believes that the country will only know that it has made progress once it is able to provide free higher education to the poor.
The party should check into political rehab and end its dysfunctional relationship with the ANC
Throughout the conference the songs sung at the congress alluded to a strong desire by SACP members to contest state power.
If the alliance could not unite, DA leader Mmusi Maimane could become the country’s next president, she warned.
Zweli Mkhize joins the race for ANC president, while David Mabuza changes tack
An alternative alliance is on the cards if Dlamini-Zuma wins the ANC presidency
While the party talks up the land question it is repressing popular struggles for land.
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has cautioned against the communist party’s consideration of independently contesting the 2019 general elections.
ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks about the call for judicial enquiry.
The ruling party appears to have lost claim to being a leader of society. This is clear from the outcome of its policy conference.
Rival political factions fighting for state power may be behind the recent spate of break-ins and fires at key government institutions
Mapaila said having Ramaphosa address the gathering would help avoid tension between the SACP and its ANC allies.
A combination of politicking ahead of the ANC policy conference, plus the machinations just before it met meant heightened tensions between factions.
The policy conference of the governing ANC will be remembered for a party in disarray, plagued with internal dissent.
Zuma’s suggestion, presented on the last day of the ANC’s national policy conference, took delegates by surprise and was met with hesitation.
A compromise now could smooth the way to the contest for presidential candidates in December
The ANC policy conference kicked off with an unlikely embrace between president Jacob Zuma and his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa on stage.
"This week’s gathering will be about gauging the strength of candidates campaigning to succeed Zuma ahead of the party’s elective conference"
The ANC deputy has been on the campaign trail for support among ANC branches and its alliance partners since scoring an endorsement from Cosatu
"Nehawu has called for an urgent amendment to the Cosatu constitution, to allow the federation to intervene among its affiliates.
The province will also define the meaning of ‘radical economic transformation’ when it releases its list of strategy and policy proposals.
"ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa backed out from addressing the National Union of Mineworkers members for the third time this month."