Mashaba’s party may vote in favour of the loan if the R200 prepaid electricity service charge is scrapped
The shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, in a mass meeting recalled and expelled senior members who made a deal with a funeral association linked to Jacob Zuma and VBS Bank
The senior counsel capitulated like Courage, the Cowardly Dog during a broadcast interview
Regional leaders want the relationship with the Red Berets to end
Rule by coalition government compels parliament to rewrite its rules
Budgets and policy positions look set to be political footballs when support is needed to pass tabled legislature motions
But there is solace in the fact that the Economic Freedom Fighters and the uMkhonto weSizwe party are unlikely to ever agree with the Democratic Alliance
The Democratic Alliance federal council chair said if the ANC in Gauteng did not want to work with her party, it should say so
The Red Berets are trying to convince the ANC to keep their local government arrangements intact
ANC mayoral candidate Cyril Xaba has already replaced Mxolisi Kaunda as a councillor
The former judge, who was impeached in relation to a bid to influence a case involving Jacob Zuma, said the party’s priority would be the nationalisation of land
People in the Ekurhuleni area that is named after the MK party’s leader believe it will bring positive change
Ntuli said the IFP tried to talk to the ‘chaotic’ uMkhonto we Sizwe party but was stood up
The uMkhonto weSizwe party’s policies are on the extreme right while the confused Economic Freedom Fighters are best described as authoritarian populism
Building a leftist party to contest future elections will require exorcising existing organisations of their Stalinism — or creating something from a much smaller base
The Chief Justice preaches about the ills of corruption, yet hasn’t named media houses and journalists who benefitted from the SSA’s Project Wave
The idea of unity has become brittle as inequality becomes more severe along race and class configurations
The provincial leadership has been singled out over the loss after it defied the orders not to contest the provincial elective conference
The EFF leader changes his views faster than a Nigerian man running in flip-flops
As the political horse trading begins, the fate of the controversial policy is uncertain
Unless South Africans see a direct improvement to their livelihoods, it will result in civil unrest
Other parties flagged irregularities but want to distance themselves from MK and Jacob Zuma’s efforts to discredit the elections
Parties’ no-go areas are rapidly shifting as the deadline to constitute a government looms
The politicians are haggling over our future but we citizens created the situation and so we need to fix it
As coalition discussions intensify, the party could end up making significant policy concessions to navigate South Africa’s uncertain future
The secretary general said the only party that had been difficult to speak to had been MK, because Jacob Zuma was unreachable
The party’s national executive committee will decide who it will partner with – and how – on Thursday
Earlier this year, the ratings agency warned that a significant increase in the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio could knock its credit rating
Populist parties have made considerable gains in the wake of the government’s insecurity-inducing economic policies
Cyril Ramaphosa’s counsel has countered that the case is stillborn because the National Assembly had a right to reject the findings of the Ngcobo panel
Fikile Mbalula said the party would not be bullied, and would engage sensibly in the best interests of the people
Sources have suggested there is an in-principle agreement between the two biggest parties that they will work together