The stayaway will test the party’s leadership, machinery and ability to mobilise its supporters on the streets and in the election booths
The shifts were not about improving government’s efficiency but about securing political futures
The example of the Road Accident Fund raises the question of whether the law, as applied by officials, is protecting people
Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past
The high court will next month hear applications by the state prosecutor and journalist Karyn Maughan to have the case against them set aside
Zuma’s legal team confirm it will soon file for Billy Downer to be removed as prosecutor
With Eskom and most other entities in states of disrepair, the relevance of the department of public enterprises is questioned
The government was advised by Eskom executives to invest in infrastructure to replace old power plants and to meet increased demand
In 1997, the warning bells were ringing that South Africa faced a dark future because Eskom would run out of capacity to supply a growing populace and an expanding economy
A 2018 state security report, the Zondo commission report
and a 2015 report on social cohesion in KwaZulu-Natal warned of problems
As SA’s democracy heads towards 30 years, we need to critically assess what needs to be done differently to become Madiba’s miracle nation
The president successfully argued that submitting to an unlawful summons would be would be a violation of his right to freedom
The president’s constitutional rights will be irreparably harmed in a criminal prosecution that has at its heart an attempt at political destabilisation
The president said Zuma’s defence of his private prosecution bid relied on political innuendo but missed the legal argument
From a bid to overturn parliament’s rejection of the Ngcobo report to Jacob Zuma’s appeal to stay out of prison, political actors will fill the courts
Covid, state capture and climate change are all problems that need solving – but here’s how to see the silver lining and deal with them
Ethnic chauvinism and table banging don’t win conferences once one crosses the Drakensberg mountains
Lobbying at the party’s conference is akin to the top seven township playground game
Zweli Mkhize has closed the gap between himself and Cyril Ramaphosa in the days leading up to the leadership vote
The minerals and energy minister could be the de facto prime minister of Cyril Ramaphosa after aiding the president through turbulent times
The president has termed his predecessor’s bid to institute a private prosecution against him as a direct attempt to derail his re-election as ANC leader
Not only is the party living in the past, it is afraid to confront today’s realities and has lost its ideological direction
Ramaphosa delivers his political report despite heckling by supporters of his predecessor Jacob Zuma
Delays in registration and the delayed arrival by Jacob Zuma nearly stole president’s show
Charge instituted on the eve of the ANC’s elective conference where Ramaphosa is seeking a second term in the presidency
Suspended secretary general Ace Magashule says he received and signed an NEC nomination letter from the ANC
The matter will be ‘processed’ by the new national executive committee being elected at Nasrec.
The ANC will leave a legacy muddied by political careerism, personality cults and corruption
The president is likely to head an NEC made up of people who
back Paul Mashatile
The jailed fraudster says his criminal record has been expunged and that the step-aside rule can’t be applied retrospectively
Disgruntled would-be national executive committee members are going to court over their failure to make the top 200 names
The courts must be commended for upholding the law, but the Ngcobo report brings a new challenge