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."
Ramaphosa says the term has come to gain a negative reputation because of a carefully-crafted narrative to vilify anyone who questions wrongdoing
Presidential race contender Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma asked her backers to accelerate lobbying in the party’s branches and ensure she win in December.
Lipolelo Thabane’s death plunges Lesotho into yet another period of dangerous political instability.
Ramaphosa firmly on the fence about how broad the terms of reference for an inquiry should be
In the Eastern Cape, the fight for ANC president is not decided. Both camps claim to hold majority support.
The defining characteristic of Zuma’s tenure has been his ability to cloak his private and personal interests in a bigger ideological framework
Readers write in about Fallists, land policy, Cyril Ramaphosa, and discipline.
Traditionally, the ANC has only allowed its members to campaign for positions after its policy conference, normally scheduled for July.
Deputy President calls for corruption probe in race to ANC elections in December.
Who becomes Zuma’s successor, and by how big a margin, will decide the fate of the ANC — and SA
Branches in half of Jacob Zuma’s heartland seem to be turning on him, backing his deputy instead.
Workers’ reaction to the president at the May Day rally in Bloemfontein shouldn’t have come as a shock to the ANC and Cosatu – they’d been warned.