Analysts say this minister’s strong SACP connections and ANC support ensure he’s ‘too powerful politically’ for the president to fire.
Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane said in a statement that the party consulted its lawyers, on Sunday, with a view to taking legal action.
Mantashe says discussions would be difficult, and the 106 member body cleared all “soft issues” in anticipation of a heated debate on Zuma’s future
“Commentators, opposition groups and ordinary South Africans underestimate Jacob Zuma, because he is more brazen, wily and brutal than they expect"
Now the ANC’s official allies, the South African Communist Party and trade union federation Cosatu, have turned against Zuma too.
Traditionally, the ANC has only allowed its members to campaign for positions after its policy conference, normally scheduled for July.
The revenue service has taken three years to investigate the president’s tax liability on his home, which the DA estimates to be about R64-million.
The president can’t address the ANC alliance partner because his leadership can’t be trusted or supported, says the labour federation.
Deputy President calls for corruption probe in race to ANC elections in December.
The ANC had moved towards blaming itself for legal defeats – but KZN this week led the counter-charge
Before becoming an MP, Molefe had stepped down as Eskom chief executive after he was implicated in the State of Capture report.
The debate about white monopoly capital in post-apartheid South Africa is good for the country’s politics but it tends to come with bad sociology
The Daily Vox asked some Johannesburg citizens whether South Africa needs a secret ballot to get rid of Zuma.
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says Baleka Mbete’s reluctance to allow it hinders the possibility of ensuring that voting is done conscientiously.
The premier’s Cabinet reshuffle is a political manoeuvre, says her opponent
A new book links Zuma to an apartheid-era sanctions buster who now wants billions
The president has ignored all opportunities to put South Africa first, which are now haunting him
But Jeff Radebe says the UDM is within its rights to ask the ConCourt to allow a secret ballot in Parliament.
The DA has applied to the High Court in Pretoria to force the president to produce the report that he used to justify his midnight Cabinet reshuffle.
Contained in the Uniform Rules of Court, it regulates the procedure to be followed in cases of all types of review.
Given Mbeki’s record in national office, his lofty reputation is not entirely deserved.
"It was a bald-faced lie. Nothing in his body language suggested an attempt at humour"
The high court in Pretoria on Thursday gave President Jacob Zuma one week to say why he fired his finance and deputy finance minsters in late March.
The deteriorating relationship between the ANC and its alliance partners was evident at Cosatu’s main May Day rally in Bloemfontein on Monday.
Workers’ reaction to the president at the May Day rally in Bloemfontein shouldn’t have come as a shock to the ANC and Cosatu – they’d been warned.
I think it’s fair to say that President Jacob Zuma has given notice and is exhibiting all the characteristics of an employee seeing out his notice period. There is a lack of enthusiasm and the notion that it is now okay to steal staplers and state money. The laziest worker in all of the land […]
Cosatu has publicly backed Cyril Ramaphosa to take over as president, with Nehawu requesting that Ramaphosa address the Workers Day rally instead.
The court ruling which declared South Africa’s nuclear energy plan as illegal may have put paid Zuma’s ambitions of clinching during his presidency
The 2001 Act and other related Acts aim to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
"The need for secrecy dictated that the fewer people involved the better, officials would later explain"
The union says inviting the president to speak at the rally would ‘create conflicting messages to our members, workers and the public in general’.
Mamphela Ramphele has emerged from “political wilderness”, to offer a critique of “the nightmare” that is South Africa’s current state of affairs.