Government has boosted spending on welfare and public services in a budget aimed at delivering on promises made during last year’s election campaign
Sarkozy was taken into police custody and investigated in March over allegations of ‘misappropriation of Libyan public funds and passive corruption’
Turkish government insists on holding campaign meetings in W-Europe, but Germany and the Netherlands will have none of it.
The ANC breathed a sigh of relief when the youth league cleared its 2008 conference debt of more than R15m. Then another creditor came knocking.
The ANC are the major culprits when it comes to political intimidation and KwaZulu-Natal is one of the worst affected regions, found a report.
The supreme court’s relaxing of donation rules just made US elections even more undemocratic and corruptible.
The DA has dared the ANC to publish the names of candidates nominated to represent the party in Parliament after elections.
Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa has been deployed to the land of wallabies and heat strokes. But the welcome he received was, shall we say, less than warm.
The Democratic Alliance’s #MyFirstTime Twitter campaign has taken off. But can it be taken seriously?
Harper Reed, Obama’s 2012 campaign chief technology officer talks about the drive’s success, but says "tech can’t help you if your party sucks".
The opposition’s fervent support of the Marikana miners has been read as political opportunism, but civilians behind the campaign seem okay with it.
Zim security forces have voted in an early election marred by delays over lack of ballot papers about two weeks before crucial national polls.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s stay in a Pretoria hospital is fast becoming an ANC election rally.
The surprise briefing called by President Jacob Zuma turned out to be the first in a series of ANC punts ahead of the 2014 national general election.
Helen Zille’s refugee comments while referring to E Cape pupils who seek better opportunities in the W Cape might come back to bite the DA.
Helen Zille led a rally to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the DA’s march for the youth wage subsidy, which resulted in clashes with Cosatu.
The building of toll roads in the Western Cape could come back to bite the ANC as the DA has vowed to use this in its general elections campaign.
Polls in Italy opened for the second day of voting in one of the most closely watched and unpredictable elections in years.
Anwar Ibrahim is fighting his last fight: to be Malaysia’s next prime minister, a battle for which he has been preparing for a very long time.
Robert Mugabe will find out this weekend whether his latest bid to win regional backing to hold elections this year will be successful.
Africans celebrate Hollande’s victory and anticipate a new era in Franco-African relations writes Liesl Louw-Vaudran.
India’s parties are offering environment plans in their manifestos for the first time, but the chances of climate policies after the election are slim
Jacob Zuma’s Zuluness hurts IFP fortunes in KwaZulu-Natal. Niren Tolsi reports.
Zille’s car – an official model on loan since bomb threats against her made driving her own Toyota Prius a security risk — is an unbelievable mess
There has been distrust between Luthuli House and the North West provincial leadership since the PEC was elected in May last year.
The only party that will win my vote is the one that is willing to stand up in public and tell me the truth about itself.
Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder hit the campaign trail last week with Mandy Rossouw and photographer Lisa Skinner.
There is space in the electoral market. The only question is whether any opposition party can exploit the opportunity.
Pearlie Joubert visits a place where drugs, gangs and crime rule.
Rapule Tabane posed 10 tough questions to
DA leader Helen Zille
Mmanaledi Mataboge spends a day in
the life of Cope leader Mvume Dandala on his recent visit to Limpopo province.
Political parties are taking a page out of the Obama campaign playbook. For the first time in South Africa, they’re using technology to woo voters.