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.
The social media savvy Patrick Gaspard talks about his love of Jo’burg and how the US can learn from SA how to discuss racism frankly.
Despite protests, the ANC secretary general has vowed that the party will not succumb to pressure to change its candidate list.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says the ruling party’s current main focus is to conclude the process of vetting its proposed ward councillors.
The protest of about 20 people was organised by ANC members belonging to the party’s Sol Plaatjie sub-region in Kimberley.
Local ANC officials and politicians are being targeted, giving rise to a climate of fear.
Senzo Mchunu resigned as KwaZulu-Natal premier on Monday following pressure from national and provincial ANC structures.
Top ANC members are putting their foot down and demanding that all key appointments be made through the ANC deployment committee.
His three most powerful lieutenants have dispensed with niceties in dealing with King Zuma – but we rather need dependable systems.
The senior judge helped draft the Constitution, and has worked valiantly to uphold it ever since.
Mantashe stressed that the Reserve Bank must answer for the closure of the family’s accounts – despite its insistence that it would not get involved.
ANC secretary general "not having any sleepless nights worrying about the impact of the court judgments concerning Zuma on the election campaign".
Mantashe said that Mogoeng’s public talk about the Concourt’s Nkandla judgment would provoke verbal attacks against the judiciary by politicians.
The ANC’s powerful secretary general is finding it increasingly difficult to defend the president.