Cape Town mayor says his party must do all it can to thwart ANC-EFF coalition efforts as the latter will destroy South Africa if in power
		
	 
	
		
		DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink
		
	 
	
		
		The opposition, insatiably desperate for attention, are as much to blame for our faulty system as those who drive it
		
	 
	
		
		Complete ceremony format at a cool R8 million expected at #Sona2023 after last year’s parliament fire caused some events to be cancelled
		
	 
	
		
		Motion of no confidence against IFP office bearers at the Nongoma municipality scheduled as EFF joins forces with the ANC and NFP
		
	 
	
		
		Opposition parties and other organisations aim to take Eskom to court over the crippling power cuts
		
	 
	
		
		ANC regional leaders Tembo Ntuli and Nkosenhle Madlala are eyeing the job, but it may go to the Red Berets
		
	 
	
		
		The commission says recent comments by Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema and party banners constituted incitement of violence and hate speech
		
	 
	
		
		The Patriotic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters ditch the Democratic Alliance during the election of council chairpersons
		
	 
	
		
		What lessons can be learnt from the ongoing coalition instability in Nelson Mandela Bay and City of Johannesburg?
		
	 
	
		
		Discussions are underway in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng
		
	 
	
		
		Nkululeko Dunga says the party is building an organisation ‘that is going to last long even after we have left this earth’
		
	 
	
		
		Party’s post about ‘free land’ sees hundreds of houses built on a vacant private property
		
	 
	
		
		EFF leader Julius Malema says the party’s provincial conferences will go ahead and denies any attempt to influence outcomes
		
	 
	
		
		Messages between ActionSA and DA federal council chair Helen Zille suggest that the blue party has made attempts for an alliance with the EFF since January
		
	 
	
		
		The land policy debate will feature, again, within the ANC’s elective contestations
		
	 
	
		
		The tense relationship between Bheki Cele and Cassel Mathale is allegedly linked to contracts
		
	 
	
		
		EFF tries to disrupt president’s speech to Parliament by bringing up deluge of points of order
		
	 
	
		
		The Economic Freedom Fighters leader has accused the president of defeating the ends of justice
		
	 
	
		
		Joe Biden might have been the butt of Trevor Noah’s jokes, but he had a better weekend than his counterpart here in South Africa
		
	 
	
		
		Flooding in KZN has shown that walls aren’t high enough in the end to protect migrating middle and upper classes from our shared reality
		
	 
	
		
		Operation Dudula has carried out a crackdown against illegal immigrants in Jo’burg, a drive that has resonated with mainly poor, angry South Africans 
		
	 
	
		
		The M&G politics journalists Lizeka Tandwa and Paddy Harper chat with EFF leader Julius Malema, reflecting on the 10 years after he was expelled from the ANC and his impact on the EFF and on South African politics
		
	 
	
		
		Once an ardent supporter of the ANC, the Economic Freedom Fighters’ leader began handling firearms at the age of 13
		
	 
	
		
		Love him or loathe him, Julius Malema has had a dramatic impact on the local political landscape
		
	 
	
		
		Malema’s visits to the hospitality industry are about the greedy business owners, not their workers
		
	 
	
		
		Lobby group’s Ernst Roets tells court he can’t “think of a mainstream politician, even from the ruling party, who has spoken against farm murders”
		
	 
	
		
		The party lost 25 council seats in what was one of its strongholds
		
	 
	
		
		The ANC’s corruption-accused suspended secretary general decries use of ‘state organs’ to ‘persecute party leaders’
		
	 
	
		
		The EFF has decided to close all talks with the ANC; meanwhile, the DA has not made any headway in talks with ActionSA as time runs out for councils to elect leaders
		
	 
	
		
		The Economic Freedom Fighters are said to have made an attempt to convince Herman Mashaba to consider an ANC alliance in Gauteng
		
	 
	
		
		While no decision has been taken on whether it would go into a coalition with ActionSA in the city, DA leaders say the party is not opposed to Mashaba wearing the mayoral chain