Paranoia reigned at Mangaung when the police allegedly harassed, assaulted and bound a group of people prevented from attending the ANC’s conference.
The ANC in the North West has nominated President Jacob Zuma for a second term as party leader.
Gwede Mantashe embraces what he criticises and as a result the ANC as a whole is at war with itself, writes Niren Tolsi.
President Jacob Zuma has come out strongly against his enemies aligned to Julius Malema, and has put the ANC Youth League’s future in question.
The ANC has said at its Mangaung conference it will push for the teaching of indigenous languages in public schools to become compulsory from 2014.
Jacob Zuma has announced that the ANC’s former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe will lead the party’s new political school.
Those who have supported the call for change in the leadership of the ANC have been left out of the ruling party’s new national executive council.
In a further vote of confidence in ANC president Jacob Zuma, party delegates voted in a pro-Zuma slate, punishing those who had challenged him.
Those who make a private donation to the ANC should not expect anything in return, newly-elected treasurer general Zweli Mkhize has said.
On Jacob Zuma my mother is unforgiving. For her the government is bad and its leader the bad apple, writes Joonji Mdyogolo.
The ANC has rejected mine nationalisation as an economic policy at the ruling party’s elective conference in Mangaung, Free State.
The business sector and unions have expressed approval of the appointment of Cyril Ramaphosa to the post of ANC deputy president.
The ANC and Cosatu are embroiled in a bitter public spat at the Mangaung electoral conference in spite of an impassioned call for unity by Jacob Zuma.
Maskandi artist and M&G undercover diarist Nkosi Luthuli speculates on the end of the world and his excruciating Mangaung hangover.
The national congress of the ANC’s Mangaung conference has decided not to review Julius Malema’s expulsion from the ruling party.
Amused journalists raised the ANC’s ire during an announcement that its national conference in Mangaung was suspended due to a storm warning.
South Africa’s ruling party is moving to appease investors and business in the country, if its draft economic policy document is anything to go by.
Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel has told journalists they must report corruption to law enforcement agencies before reporting on them.
Nkosi Luthuli, Maskandi artist, branch delegate and M&G undercover diarist criticises Kgalema Motlanthe’s lack of an election strategy.
A report that ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa would decline his nomination was the result of "unsavoury" sources, the Star newspaper has said.
The ANC has downplayed Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s decision not to run for a position on the ruling party’s national executive committee.
More ANC bigwigs have declined nomination for the party’s national executive committee, including the president’s spin doctor Mac Maharaj.
Kgalema Motlanthe is out of top level ANC politics entirely after his decisive defeat by Jacob Zuma in the race for the party presidency.
There will be a court challenge to the legality of the ANC’s national conference at Mangaung, two people involved in the process have told the M&G.
Calls for ANC unity and fears of lingering animosity were heard following the election of Jacob Zuma and the party’s senior leadership at Mangaung.
Now that Kgalema Motlanthe is out of the ANC top six, speculation is rife about what the future holds for the country’s deputy president.
Events took a turn at the ANC Mangaung conference as liberation movements such as Zanu-PF began comparing themselves to the ANC.
With Jacob Zuma re-elected to lead the ANC, the party needs to now deal with the high possibility of losing votes come the 2014 national election.
The ANC’s elected top six leaders has yielded no surprises, with party president Jacob Zuma retaining his position at the helm.
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The Constitutional Court has found there were irregularities in the ANC’s preparation for its Free State provincial elective conference.
Political editor Gaye Davis has resigned following a report in the Star that Cyril Ramaphosa had refused a nomination to be ANC deputy president.
Four men connected to an alleged right wing threat "directed" at the ANC’s conference in Mangaung have arrived at the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court.