Sunday reports claim former top cop Bheki Cele is rallying opposition to President Jacob Zuma ahead of the ANC’s elective conference in Mangaung.
The leadership crisis in the ruling African National Congress and gross iniquities of South African society cannot be ignored any longer.
With Mangaung approaching fast, Jacob Zuma’s hopes for re-election have been dealt a stern blow by the "Anyone But Zuma" movement within the ANC.
The tide has begun to turn against Zuma with the textbook saga, Nkandla and Lonmin all stacking up against him.
Mathews Phosa and Kgalema Motlanthe have finally broken their silence on President Zuma’s leadership qualities. So what does it mean as Mangaung approaches?
The ANC’s factional battles came to a head this week, with analysts warning that recent chaos in the Eastern Cape might be a taste of things to come.
The youth league in the Eastern Cape has slated party leaders for dissolving the ANC’s chaotic regional conference before revealing election results.
In this week’s round-up, the push to empower Zuma’s homestead raises hackles, Motlanthe says he’s still not running and Tokyo cashes in.
Members of the ANC’s PEC in the Eastern Cape have been accused of trying to manipulate delegate credentials at the OR Tambo regional conference.
President Jacob Zuma is facing growing calls from within ANC structures to hold Angie Motshekga to account for the Limpopo textbook debacle.
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi is fast becoming a serious contender for a senior ANC leadership position in Mangaung.
The mining industry is set to continue talks with the African National Congress in lead-up to the crucial Mangaung conference.
Nikiwe Bikitsha wonders what she will miss about South Africa as she prepares to embark on a 10-month fellowship in the United States.
Endorsing ANC plans for "strategic nationalisation", the SA Communist Party has nailed its Mangaung colours firmly to President Jacob Zuma’s mast.
Julius Malema tells a rally that President Zuma is ruining the ANC, and calls on the youth league to help turn things around at Mangaung.
The policies adopted at the 4th ANC policy conference propose nothing more than change through the continuity of current government policy.
All tertiary students will be compelled do an internship in the service of the state after graduating, the ANC has proposed at its policy conference.
The ANC has accepted an altered version of the "second transition" policy document – but it has nothing to do with Mangaung, says the ruling party.
Opposing factions have squared off at the ANC policy conference in Midrand – voicing their preferences between Jacob Zuma and Kgalema Motlanthe.
Yet another make-or-break European summit will dominate this week’s economic calendar, while at home all eyes will be on the ANC’s policy conference.
Policies adopted at ANC sessions this week will affect the entire nation, but the media aren’t welcome as the party "doesn’t want to hold back".
South Africa needs a second transition, otherwise it would remain stagnant like many other African countries, President Jacob Zuma has said.
The ANC needed to change from a resistance movement to a "transformative movement and effective governing party".
When the ANC’s policy conference begins on June 26, the majority of South Africans will probably feel a little sidelined.
No one likes to live in the shadow of a leader, which is why so many deputies are seen to be jostling to be numero uno, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has called on ANC leaders to change or face removal, while remaining coy about his own political ambitions.
It is fervently to be hoped that the discussion documents produced ahead of the ANC’s policy conference are just that, the basis for discussion.
President Jacob Zuma says the ANC must approach its national conference with the serious manner it approached its founding conference in 1912.
The proposed sale of 20% of Telkom to a Korean firm was simply politically unpalatable, analysts say. Lloyd Gedye reports.
Factional battles and sometimes fisticuffs continue to roil ANC provincial structures as the party prepares for its elective conference at Mangaung.
Expelling ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and his cohorts from the party was the right decision, says ANC provincial chairperson Zweli Mkhize
It is tragic that we should be stuck in this pre- and post-Polokwane or pre- and post-Mangaung milieu that dictates every aspect of our lives.