The ANC’s Veterans League plans to meet with presidential candidates in a bid to prevent further tensions over the party succession battle.
South Africans were not consistent in their outrage, she claimed.
Lindiwe Zulu says that she endorsed NDZ because her election would ensure that there is gender parity in the top and bottom structures of the ANC
In his last speech, President Jacob Zuma denounced everyone but himself for South Africa’s fractured state
After claiming that Mpumalanga branch general meetings were fixed, the presidential hopeful had to withdraw his court bid
Zuma said “ill-discipline” has caused ANC members to take the party to court or to side openly with the opposition.
Analyst Tinyiko Maluleke says the exclusion of 54 PEC members and 40 Bojanala branches from voting will not adversely affect Dlamini-Zuma’s fortunes
Changing the system to allow for direct election would require SA to look carefully at how a directly elected president should be held accountable.
The high court judgment means premier Ace Magashule is no longer in charge of the party in the province and will have to contest the position again.
Delegates from disqualified branches are intent on barging into the ANC’s leadeship election
‘Mechanisms to control the power of its party president are well within the reach of an ANC national conference’
Readers write in about ANC and its legal battles, and the possibilty of Cyril Ramaphosa being president of the ANC
Critics say he operates in the shadows, but David Mabuza may be the kingmaker at conference time
We must be careful not to overstate what it means to choose the least bad candidate
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The ANC presidential race is about how
much control the victor will be able to exercise.
‘We are going to have a ballot paper at the ANC conference after 105 years for [a] president that is a female’
Cele said a call made in 1912, when the ANC was born, for different tribes to work together clearly resonated with some voters in his home province
Free State Premier Ace Magashule is likely to be re-elected to serve another year as chairperson of the ANC in the province.
Are calls for unity in the ANC an attempt to prevent Cyril Ramaphosa from cleaning out the stables if he wins the presidency?
The controversial conference, which has been postponed four times, is expected to elect a new provincial leadership.
KwaZulu-Natal this weekend played host to the ANC presidential race’s frontrunners.
Readers write in about the need for a new social movement, and the ANC succession debate
Neither presidential hopeful is prepared to stand back for party unity, which could lead to a split
After the provincial general councils, the leadership race is down to two individuals and a third way appears dead, if it had ever been alive.
Dlamini- Zuma urged delegates to abide by the conference rules banning caps, t-shirts, placards and songs punting any of the presidential candidates.
The recount was conducted by the party’s electoral commission overnight at the request of ANCYL provincial secretary, who had raised "concerns".
The last two ANC provinces to announce their nominations – KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo – held their provincial general council meetings today.
Limpopo was the second last province to hold its Provincial General Council (PGC) meeting where the nominations from branches were consolidated.
Zikalala is highly critical of ANC leaders who had approached the leadership race like the presidential primaries in the United States.
Other changes the PGC proposed included expanding the size of the national executive to have two deputy presidents and two deputy secretaries general.
Gauteng is now the fourth ANC provincial structure to officially nominate Ramaphosa as their preferred ANC presidential candidate.