The land issue has divided senior ANC members, with some, including President Jacob Zuma, calling for the Constitution to be amended.
Regions and provincial structures will now be limited to observing at national level the opening of branch nominations for the top six ANC leaders.
The Independent Electoral Commission says legal processes should be concluded before any judgment is cast.
The party’s general manager, Ignatius Jacobs, has been implicated in an alleged covert election campaign aimed at discrediting opposition parties.
Party members have been told to shut up but even Zuma and Mantashe are getting in on the issue.
The party also criticised Madonsela for her handling of the State of Capture report.
This comes after ruling party national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa called the move premature, divisive and defiant of the ANC’s NEC.
The ANC secretary general says Cosatu and the ANCWL are “spoiling the water in the ANC” by publicly stating who they back as the next party president,
Fearing a showdown, several groups in the party want compromise presidential candidates
The rally is expected to give the party an opportunity to set the tone and direction for the year ahead.
Readers write in about the SACP, and the black sheep of the family.
SACP deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila also lauded the achievements of late Cuban Revolution icon Fidel Castro.
The ANC secretary general made no comments on the dissatisfaction regarding the president’s leadership at the NEC press briefing at Luthuli House.
The ANC president may have survived today, but the fact that the motion was even tabled means that his support is waning
Calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down did not feature at the meeting between the ANC’s National Working Committee and the party’s veterans.
Zuma is not among the six and isn’t expected to seek re-election, the party’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.
‘The DA has made this an annual and frivolous ritual that is fast losing its meaning,’ party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told a media briefing.
The party has decried factionalism at every national and policy conference in the last decade and has done nothing about it.
An extra R43-billion has to be raised through tax in the next three years, and this may be one option.
The risk of the current state of affairs is that it is likely to divide the country along several lines, from racial, to tribal, to class.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says lifestyle audits might also be on the cards for government officials and public servants.
"You must never paint the picture that you are an institution fighting a government you are a part of," the ANC secretary general said.
Wits’s former SRC president says the ANC secretary general’s comment on closing universities to teach protesters a lesson was irresponsible.
The ANC secretary general’s thought that he would have preferred to shut universities down to deal with protests is very ill-informed.
The ANC needs to have a candid debate on state capture to save the movement, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said in Cape Town on Wednesday.
The ANC secretary general says students protesting fee increases are not doing anyone a favour by studying.
Kohler Barnard was demoted from shadow police minister to deputy shadow minister of public works after sharing a Facebook post praising PW Botha.
MK veterans tried stopping the ANC secretary general from receiving a list of demands from anti-Zuma protesters outside the party’s headquarters.
The investigative unit should refrain from making ‘a public exercise’ out of probes into ministers, says ANC secretary general.
Zizi Kodwa is diverting attention away from real issues at the SABC, says former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said the party decided on the announcement, a first in its history, so that candidates could assist in campaigns.
An alleged murderer, endorsed by the Gauteng safety MEC, is just one of 28 candidates who have criminal records or are facing charges.