ANC supporters of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe believe Zuma’s supporters are planning a purge during the ANC’s national conference next week.
Alliance and union leaders are working to have Zwelinzima Vavi removed as Cosatu’s general secretary, in the first-ever challenge to his leadership.
The agreement between unions and the state on a 7% increase for government workers will spare President Jacob Zuma blushes ahead of Mangaung.
Shortly before he was killed, ANC KwaZulu-Natal municipal chief whip Wandile Mkhize broke ranks with KwaZulu-Natal on policy.
Deputy ANC Youth League leader Ronald Lamola claims the ruling party’s drive for radical economic change vindicates positions adopted by the league.
Delegates at the ANC policy conference have rejected Zuma’s "second transition" but are nevertheless demanding dramatic changes in economic policies.
President Jacob Zuma has launched a veiled attack on Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe for questioning the second transition.
In a speech defying an ANC resolution forbidding leadership campaigning, ANC chairman Ace Magashule has openly endorsed Zuma for re-election.
Kgalema Motlanthe has finally shown his hand, questioning the ANC’s so-called second transition and seemingly headed for a showdown with Jacob Zuma.
Factional fights will no doubt mar next week’s ANC policy conference, but serious issues are on the agenda.
President Jacob Zuma has rejected an invitation to address the main national youth day rally in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
With two weeks to go before its policy conference, the ANC’s provincial structures have come out in support of various forms of nationalisation.
President Jacob Zuma this week announced his third Cabinet reshuffle in what is seen as a clear bid to consolidate his power in both the government
Zuma’s backers and foes in the ANC’s top brass have nailed their colours to the mast in a fiery meeting in which he was accused of suppressing debate.
When told she’d lost her prestigious defence post, apparently after getting too big for her boots, Lindiwe Sisulu was caught completely off guard.
Ahead of the ANC policy conference, Cosatu’s second-largest affiliate is flexing its muscles – calling for nationalisation and radical land reform.
National Union of Mineworkers is investigating the source of leaks to the M&G, which revealed the R1.4-million salary of its general secretary.
The National Union of Metalworkers has lambasted Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan for undermining the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane resolutions.
Union bosses punt ANC president as a friend of the working class ahead of leadership battles. Matuma Letsoalo reports.
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) general secretary Frans Baleni has come under fire for a whopping R40000 increase in his salary.
A former business associate of Julius Malema, Lesiba Gwangwa is asking the courts to stop a probe into the expelled ANCYL leader’s financial affairs.
A qualified audit is playing into the hands of a mineworkers’ union faction vying for control.
Sources in the ANC say there are plans to disband the Limpopo provincial executive committee, whose chair is Cassel Mathale, a close Malema ally.
Health union Nehawu has hurled veiled attacks at Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe for supposedly choosing sides in the run-up to Mangaung.
The ANC has been keeping a close eye on two union leadership contests, namely the National Union of Mineworkers and National Union of Metalworkers.
The ANC Youth League says Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini must apologise over remarks he made regarding Julius Malema and hijacking the recent march.
The nationwide Cosatu strike has revealed that two distinct factions are battling for control of the federation ahead of Mangaung.
Provincial governments may have needed intervention, but why only now?
No image available
/ 25 November 2011
Trade union federation Cosatu has admitted for the first time that the ANC’s leadership race is sowing division in its ranks.
No image available
/ 4 November 2011
Differences about leadership preferences are threatening the unity of a coalition formed to oust Cassel Mathale, Limpopo’s premier.
Tensions are mounting between Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi and his deputy, Ayanda Dlodlo, say departmental officials.
The ANC provincial conference in Limpopo will go ahead despite attempts by Gwede Mantashe to delay it until next year.