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This limited series newsletter offers deep dives and timely updates from the Mail & Guardian’s esteemed politics and elections team. Your essential guide through South Africa’s pivotal elections, enriched by our historic journey from apartheid to democracy. Allow us to connect the past, present, and future of our nation’s democratic evolution.
We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi
The new Zulu prime minister has been giving the ANC chest pains since the king appointed him
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said the party’s secretary general, Marshall Dlamini, would replace Shivambu as its national deployee in the province
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Political parties are treating the issues as ‘peripheral’ concerns
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The IFP will reserve 80% of all jobs for South Africans and restrict foreign access to the small business sector
The EFF leader has said that the door was still open to collaboration with the DA and MK parties after the elections, but not with Ramaphosa
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The ruling party’s head of elections has said the ANC should be worried that members were moving to the new party while the IFP should also be concerned
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IEC records bumper registration weekend as voter’s roll exceeds 27 million for the first time since 1994
The biggest opposition parties are intent on usurping the ANC’s power by forming alliances with smaller left and right wing parties
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Collen Malatji also said the party had been nursing the former president for too long, given he had caused more damage to the party than any other ANC leader
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The party wants to avoid an internal contest derailing its aim to win back KwaZulu-Natal
The party leader is one of the participants on a five-day German tour to learn how coalitions are managed in that country
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The spectre of the IFP boss has haunted both my personal and professional life for decades
Flags will fly at half mast on government buildings until after the Zulu prime minister is buried
The reasons that such an intelligent, charismatic leader never gained the type of political recognition he craved are rooted in his own core mission in life: to rule a reconstructed Zulu nation
The IFP founder and Zulu traditional primer minister will receive a state funeral
The DA leader has said the pact was about dislodging the ruling party and stopping a coalition between the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters
‘Isidlamlilo/The Fire Eater’ navigates the complexity of a female killer for the IFP
Misizwe Zulu’s company overcharged the Msunduzi municipality by R100 million for work it did not do
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The 94-year-old remains the party’s drawcard ahead of elections, according to its secretary general
The sugar industry’s struggle tells a bigger story of the risks of South Africa’s deindustrialisation
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
Embattled mayor had been under pressure over the city’s adverse audit opinion in 2021-2022
Motion of no confidence against IFP office bearers at the Nongoma municipality scheduled as EFF joins forces with the ANC and NFP
The parties have forged an alliance to remove the ruling party from power in the province
Explanations for the giant power cut in eThekwini make as much sense as the ANC plan to win back voters in the Kingdom
Discussions are underway in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng
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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
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IFP president emeritus is isolating at home