The disgraced former president has a 63.1% favourability score in his home province. Whether that translates into votes for his new party remains to be seen
The biggest opposition parties are intent on usurping the ANC’s power by forming alliances with smaller left and right wing parties
The ActionSA leader also said he would not be standing as the party’s Gauteng premier candidate
South Africans love the ruling party – they just don’t like it at the moment – and the opposition parties appear to have learnt nothing in 30 years
More than 200 tenants of Jay Singh housing programme flats are being kicked out every month
Political analysts believe that EFF’s growth in KwaZulu-Natal will be marginal
The MK veteran said on Friday, however, that he would not join any political party
The MPC has reacted to news reports that the businessman is in talks to lead it ahead of the 2024 elections
With the right amount of planning, political coalitions can work – and even create the environment for better economic solutions
The governing party also retained a ward in Mpumalanga in Wednesday’s round of by-elections
Polls by three organisations paint bleak electoral picture for the ANC
Senior leaders in KwaZulu-Natal say scandal findings are too big to shake off
The party has until next March to elect a unified national leadership if it wants to contest the 2024 polls
The party leader is one of the participants on a five-day German tour to learn how coalitions are managed in that country
Inkatha Freedom Party founder Mangosuthu Buthelezi will remain the face of the party’s election campaign
Tensions over Tshwane between ActionSA and the Democratic Alliance are not expected affect the multi-party pact
The party needs to settle its internal battles if it hopes to contest the elections
The two parties hope to unseat the ANC next year through their pre-election cooperation agreement
The uMngeni mayor says he is up to the ‘mathematically difficult’ challenge
The IFP’s president said he is watching out for detractors in the party who are calling for him to leave the province for parliament
Ramaphosa said that the IFP leader had helped end the violence which had gripped the country ahead of the 1994 polls.
The founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s greatest fear was to be recorded as being on the wrong side of history
Evidence demonstrates that Buthelezi was a key figure in the apartheid regime’s fight against pro-democracy forces
The Zulu traditional prime minister and his king quarrelled over the trust during his final months
Mangosuthu Buthelezi was a formidable opponent who gave as good as he got
Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen also called for parties to support its motion to dissolve the Johannesburg council
The KwaZulu-Natal chair said provincial leaders’ polling was likely to change in the coming weeks
Michelle Wasserman said her party was not aiming to take away votes from the DA in next year’s provincial elections, but rather from the ANC
The ANC in KZN has declared a week of mourning in tribute to Buthelezi
An accomplished orator, historian and custodian of Zulu tradition and culture, Buthelezi was perhaps one of the most contradictory figures in South African politics
Investigations have revealed that hitmen are hiring top lawyers to defend themselves and that the biggest threat to political victims is from within their own parties
The Inkatha Freedom Party founder had been in hospital since the beginning of August