Faced with falling public confidence, the ANC is to deal more harshly with members who cause divisions and drive speculation on the next leadership.
President Jacob Zuma’s appeal to ANC Youth League delegates to do away with factional tendencies appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
The MEC for local government and human settlements was nominated unopposed on Friday night for the vacant ANC Youth League presidency.
Mac Maharaj’s replacement was out of a job after just three months and Zuma loyalists are on the hunt for "someone they can trust".
A report warns that an ANC faction, disbanded by the party, aims to make a return in the province.
Divisions in the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union over investments and a trust for members have spilled into court.
The labour department wants the troubled Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union to be put under administration.
Former legal affairs executive manager Harry Lekalakala, who is claiming constructive dismissal, says he was targeted for flagging serious misconduct.
Numsa calls for inquiry into Eskom and says it must open its books for public scrutiny.
The ruling party wants to ensure that those who stand in local elections have community support.
Cosatu admits it is facing financial difficulties, and is looking for long-term solutions to arrest the dire situation.
"We [the ANC] are not ashamed of cadre deployment. We will continue to implement it without fail," says the Free State premier.
In a speech that was occasionally interrupted by the EFF, Premier David Makhura promised an injection of billions of rands into several initiatives.
Hundreds of ANC members paid their respects to Dumisa Ntuli, spokesperson for ANC Gauteng who died in a car accident last week.
Dumisa Ntuli died in a traffic collision on February 8 near his home in Albertsdal in the East Rand. He was 47.
The Gauteng arm of the EFF sang anti-Malema songs during the second day of the party’s national assembly, disrupting nomination proceedings.
The young lions’ internecine squabbles over its leadership elections in the North West have led branch delegates to lobby the ANC for a do-over.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura talks of radical change, but will the stars in his eyes blind him to reality?
The appointment of David Makhura as Gauteng premier could signal the end of the dominant Jacob Zuma-aligned group within the ANC.
Numerous Cosatu leaders will take seats for the ANC in Parliament in what critics are calling their reward for remaining loyal to the ruling party.
The Independent Electoral Commission has weathered a storm of criticism to declare the 2014 elections free and fair.
EFF and Agang SA leaders’ ties to the province may disrupt old voting patterns.
Costly strikes and affiliate unions’ failure to pay membership fees have left the trade union federation in the red.
ANC leaders have partied, danced and mocked EFF leader Julius Malema in Tembisa – a mere kilometre from Malema’s party’s election manifesto launch.
Bigger social grants, free education and no ministerial packages or tenders were among the promises the EFF made at its election manifesto launch.
Concern that SA’s president could face Marikana charges has led ANCYL leader Mzwandile Masina to lobby for a law that guarantees Zuma’s Âimmunity.
After declining a request for a special conference, Cosatu has asked its largest affiliate to provide reasons for not being suspended – or expelled.
The Cosatu central executive committee has decided not to hold a special congress, despite a request from nine of the federation’s affiliates.
The ANC says the DA’s accusation that Cyril Ramaphosa’s blue light convoy knocked down a cyclist in North West and drove off is a desperate move.
President Jacob Zuma has taken advantage of the audience at his keynote address to remind everyone that Nelson Mandela was a member of the ANC.
Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim has declared war on the National Union of Mineworkers, saying it will recruit openly in the mining industry.
President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday that while Nelson Mandela’s long walk to freedom had come to an end, "our journey continues".