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Radio host and writer Shaka Sisulu was dumped by Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk after he was appointed to the ANC Youth League interim committee.
The ANC has intentionally left out big youth league names when selecting the people to rebuild the structure, saying it wanted to "avoid problems".
The ANC’s national working committee has appointed 22 people to a task-team on the ANC Youth League, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.
The ANC’s secretary general says mines don’t want the NUM around because it is fighting exploitation, adding new unions have nothing to offer members.
African National Congress MEC member Tito Mboweni responds to an M&G article about factionalism in the party.
The creative writing in the M&G’s article "Zuma coterie has Gwede in its sights" conjures up images of knives and daggers, writes Gwede Mantashe
Insiders say the overruling of Gwede Mantashe on key issues is a sign he is being sidelined in the ANC. Matuma Letsoalo reports.
The ANC elders must admit that their time is up and hand over the reins to the youth who still have a long future ahead of them, writes Khaya Dlanga.
No matter how the ANC explains the disbandment of its youth league and Limpopo executives, the move seems like a purge of Jacob Zuma’s detractors.
In spite of a move to dissolve structures that sought change in Mangaung, the ANC’s leadership has claimed it is not eliminating its internal enemies.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe says the party’s NEC will discuss the progress made in certain provinces, including work by the youth league.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is on a dangerous, downward slope, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has said.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has accused the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) of failing to appreciate the importance of education.
Cosatu’s general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi fears not only for his political future but also his life amid reports of a move to oust him.
We gauged the response across political and business spectrums following Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech. It seems he won their favour.
Gwede Mantashe has been forceful when speaking about the impact of teacher strikes following an ANC lekgotla recently.
The ANC’s aggressive stance on teaching as an essential service bodes ill for three-year wage agreements reached in the public sector last year.
The M&G’s weekly guide to SA politics zooms in on the ANC and Cosatu’s brewing spat and calls for President Zuma to sack Communications Minister Dina Pule.
Former unionist Gwede Mantashe may be the most powerful secretary general since the ANC was unbanned.
Following the furore over the FNB adverts, the Pimples find themselves stalked by a sinister figure making "treasonous" videos.
The government has no plans to nationalise unsustainable mines, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.
The youth league is scheduled to meet with the ANC’s top six officials in a bid to bring tensions between the league and its mother body to an end.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has stated that he is somewhat disappointed at the party’s national executive committee elections.
Gwede Mantashe embraces what he criticises and as a result the ANC as a whole is at war with itself, writes Niren Tolsi.
With President Zuma and his allies taking the top spots, to much jubilation, the political futures of the other contenders are uncertain.
Gwede Mantashe has admitted that the majority of ANC branches were in disarray, becoming active only during conferences and elections.
Sectors of society have been trying to manipulate the outcome of the ANC national conference, the party’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe has said.
The ANC has downplayed any problems associated with the nominations process of the ruling party’s upcoming elective conference in Mangaung.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has dismissed apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele’s criticism of the ruling party as opposition politicking.
Gwede Mantashe says the black players Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer has are good enough to play internationally and should be selected for the team.
The ANC’s pact to stop singing the song with words ‘Dubula i’bhunu’ is a failure – it should have been used to question the definition of hate speech.