South Africa has done an about-turn on the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, endorsing Alassane Ouattara as Ivorian president.
On his brief visit to South Africa this week President Jacob Zuma was the chief executive officer that every chairperson wants on his team.
The African National Congress (ANC) plans to tackle the sticky issue of the influence that businesspeople have on the party.
Youth organisation says it will support the proposal it damned if it can implement it.
Parliament is to investigate Yolanda Botha following revelations by the <i>M&G</i> that she was awarded contracts.
If former president Thabo Mbeki’s rule was the Age of Denial, President Jacob Zuma’s term of office is likely to be known as the Age of Apology.
Despite unhappiness about Jimmy Manyi’s racist comments senior officials believe he will keep his job.
When government spin doctor Jimmy Manyi started his new job a few weeks ago he had one message: I am not the story.
Vusi Mavimbela is the latest in a crew of political outcasts to be sent on ambassadorial missions abroad.
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/ 28 February 2011
An attempt to establish South Africa’s seventh metropolitan city is causing infighting in the Eastern Cape ANC.
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/ 25 February 2011
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is to present a discussion paper on the youth wage subsidy to trade unions and business.
An attempt by pirates to hijack a Mozambican ship off the coast of that country led SA to use its naval capabilities to monitor threats in SA waters.
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/ 18 February 2011
The DA’s blacklisting of <i>Sowetan</i> parliamentary correspondent Anna Majavu has led to divisions in the party, insiders say.
A little fire and brimstone from the opposition benches, but president’s own MPs had only good things to say about his speech.
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/ 18 February 2011
His words smack of hypocrisy, however, as it was exactly this practice that brought him to power.
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/ 18 February 2011
Three days after election to the top job in the Western Cape ANC, Marius Fransman’s face shows the effects of the battle for leadership.
In his reply to the debate on the State of the Nation address on Thursday, President Jacob Zuma took pride in the government’s interventions.
The director general of International Relations and Cooperation Ayanda Ntsaluba is to leave his position, making him the second DG to leave this year.
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/ 12 February 2011
Jacob Zuma berated delegates at an ANC conference in Cape Town on Saturday for failing to regain the region from the Democratic Alliance.
President Jacob Zuma was expected to adopt a characteristically conciliatory approach in his annual State of the Nation address.
Talk of nationalisation has advisers pointing to West Africa as a "safer" environment.
The announcement of R19-billion to help with job-creation showed SA President Jacob Zuma was putting his money where his mouth is.
Jimmy Manyi taking over as head of government communications completes an overhaul that sees supporters of Jacob Zuma taking over top positions.
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/ 4 February 2011
The most trusted ship in the SA navy was deployed to evacuate South Africans in Côte d’Ivoire in the event of widespread civil disorder.
SA has joined the international chorus calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down in the face of mass street demonstrations.
The battle for control of Côte d’Ivoire moved to Pretoria this week as lobbyists for the presidential rivals tried to swing the SA government.
ANC Youth League deputy president Andile Lungisa appears to have withdrawn from the race for the league’s presidency.
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/ 28 January 2011
Blade Nzimande has finally gone to Cuba — a trip his ousted director general, Mary Metcalfe, tried to prevent him from taking at state expense.
There are uneasy rumblings among some in government circles over the relocation of this year’s government lekgotla to a five-star resort in Limpopo.
Cosatu’s isolation has increased following the endorsement of the government’s controversial new growth path proposals by the SACP.
Speculation is rife in the Northern Cape that a provincial cabinet reshuffle is on the cards.
The rural development department will bear the biggest brunt from the new job-creation targets set by the ANC for the next 10 years, the ANC said.