The presidential bobbing and weaving over ANC campaign funding is about to come to an end
The tourism minister will have to jockey with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Zweli Mkhize for a presidential nomination.
A busy year looms for Ramaphosa and allies as he fights to lead the ANC and the country come 2024.
The ruling party is scheduled to start interviewing prospective metro mayors this weekend with some usual suspects on the list
The party is set to begin interviewing prospective mayors this week — and women candidates have a five-point advantage
Flashbacks of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday
Moving the national senior certificate exams forward also allows matrics who are old enough to cast their ballots on 1 November
Voters can register on the weekend of 18 and 19 September – or they can do it online
The ANC’s inability to meet deadlines could have given us more municipal managers with bodybuilding certificates
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma calls for Covid-19 caution as she gives political parties the green light to canvass for votes
The ANC will be the hardest hit by the order having failed to register with the Electoral Commission of South Africa its candidates in no less than 93 municipalities
The ANC and the DA have blamed the Electoral Commission of South Africa for ‘waking up late’ to request a postponement of the local government elections
The Electoral Commission of South Africa’s new facility ran for only two weeks before it asked the constitutional court to delay the elections
A report by former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke opens the possibility of a postponement
The IEC has accepted former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke’s recommendation to postpone the vote to February, but still needs Constitutional Court approval to do so
It was the women in Jacob Zuma’s life who threw the former South African president’s character flaws into sharpest relief. And it was women who ultimately brought him down
The initial challenge to the restrictions was so vaguely argued that the high court appeared to have chosen to see a case where there was none, the SCA found
Ramaphosa is said to be considering appointing former Gauteng health MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa or Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the minister of health
The suspended ANC secretary general toed the party line in his address to Zuma’s court rally as further disciplinary charges loom
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule’s claims that he is the victim of a factional purge with the governing party are false, says his deputy, Jessie Duarte.
After a slew of corruption scandals, Ntuthu has been removed from his powerful position on the Eastern Cape PEC and his regional secretary role
The Independent Electoral Commission wants to prevent a repeat of the voting irregularity complaints that occurred during the last LGE
The minister could spend the state’s money on fighting Covid-19 and cigarette cartels, tobacco manufacturers argue
The court held that the ongoing state of disaster meant there was public interest in the legal test applied to measures taken to contain the pandemic
The Western Cape high court is expected to rule soon on the minister’s bid to seek vindication from the supreme court
Democratic Alliance drags the government to court, demanding a Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan.
In two weeks the co-operative governance minister will continue her fight against Batsa after the tobacco ban was found to be was unconstitutional
The African Continental Free Trade Area could transform Africa’s economic prospects and end its dependence on commodity exports
The tobacco company has counter-filed for leave to appeal December’s tobacco ruling, should the government’s application for leave to appeal be successful
A fresh legal wrangle and jostling at the courts over the ban could run for much of the life span of the pandemic itself
This is an extract from the book 50 People Who F***ed Up South Africa: The Lost Decade by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman, with cartoons by Zapiro
In following an international, scientific approach the state assumed extraordinary power over people