Cosatu will lobby for radical policy changes during its national conference next month, including the abolition of land ownership by foreigners.
Vavi has admitted that the Cosatu’s preoccupation with ANC politics is resulting in a growing distance between union leaders and its membership.
There are far more questions than answers about the controversial plan to build a R2-billion town up the road from President Zuma’s rural homestead.
Zwelinzima Vavi says the ANC has been unable to reassert the organisation’s mission and strategic vision.
The youth league in the Eastern Cape has slated party leaders for dissolving the ANC’s chaotic regional conference before revealing election results.
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.
With two of the SACP’s senior leaders now government ministers, Solly Mapaila will run the communists. These two will be his aides.
With two of the South African Communist Party’s senior leaders now ministers, Solly Mapaila is set to run the show, and take over from Blade Nzimande.
The South African Police Service has been entered into another multimillion-rand property deal that was not put out to tender, writes Matuma Letsoalo.
Endorsing ANC plans for "strategic nationalisation", the SA Communist Party has nailed its Mangaung colours firmly to President Jacob Zuma’s mast.
The SACP’s national conference this weekend ended in a political game of cat and mouse between general secretary Blade Nzimande and Kgalema Motlanthe.
SACP leaders say Blade Nzimande has unified the party ahead of its conference, though the expulsion of his opponents from the party might have helped.
Matuma Letsoalo spoke to Numsa’s Irvin Jim on some of the union’s resolutions that could affect the outcome of the upcoming ANC policy conference.
The ANCYL believes secretary general Sindiso Magaqa was removed as he championed Malema, prompting questions about the NDCA’s credibility and motives.
Julius Malema has been tipped for the vice-presidency of the International Union of Socialist Youth — and possibly an office in Vienna.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says the ANC has to reposition itself to remain relevant and account to the masses.
President Jacob Zuma has tightened up his security and now even rank-and-file ANC members need accreditation in order to attend Zuma’s public events.
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> has again begun the search for South Africa’s most inspiring women for the annual <em>Book of South African Women</em>.
The South African Communist Party has come under pressure to recall Blade Nzimande from government to play a more hands-on role within the party.
David Mabuza looks set to retain the chairmanship of the ANC in Mpumalanga, resisting pressure to topple him.
Close allies of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe have revealed that he is determined to run for higher office and challenge Jacob Zuma after all.
Zwelinzima Vavi and Julius Malema have joined the Cosatu march in Jo’burg against e-tolling and labour brokers, swept up by a swarm of supporters.
President Jacob Zuma is looking East for inspiration, as the ANC pushes for resource nationalism rather than a crude form of nationalisation.
It is seeking relief from the public protector after an unpopular order to move to new premises.
The minister has lashed out against those calling for premature changes to the party’s leadership.
Three years after the "palace coup" that saw him leave office, opinions are divided on whether Thabo Mbeki should return to active domestic politics.
The succession race for the position of judge president of the North and South Gauteng High Courts has begun and has taken on political overtones.
President Jacob Zuma’s name will be at the centre of several major political events in 2012 as he fights for re-election as ANC president.
Embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been elected to the powerful Limpopo provincial executive committee.
Cassel Mathale has taken an indirect swipe at Zuma and Mantashe for attempting to "depoliticise and liquidate" the ANC Youth League at the conference.
Thobile Ntola, the president of Sadtu, criticised the info Bill publicly without debating it within the teachers’ union, leaders say.
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/ 2 December 2011
Moe Shaik, the head of the South African Secret Service, is on his way out following the resignation of the director general of state security.