The ANC and DA trade jabs as the former prepares to deliver its annual address, with coalition politics under scrutiny
Provincial convener Willies Mchunu says the party needs to start building its structures from scratch
The party hopes to win back voters in the Western Cape, where its January 8 commemoration is being held
His resignation follows mounting speculation about his future in the party, particularly after he skipped its third elective conference in December
The former president’s lawyers say Tony Yengeni is being “persecuted” for representing Zuma at his disciplinary hearing
The party is expected to discuss the matter at its upcoming national executive committee meeting, set for next week
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for its alliance partners, the SACP and labour federation Cosatu, to unite to return the ANC to power
The ANC secretary general described Tony Yengeni as a ‘political Casanova’ and ‘very ill-disciplined’
Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso said the members of the Ingonyama Trust Board would therefore remain in office ‘until the minister decides otherwise’
The monarch has been under pressure from KwaZulu-Natal politicians to ditch Buthelezi and has also been at odds with the Ingonyama Trust Board
The SACP, EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe party are all looking at potential new alliances
Pre-existing policy tensions between the ANC and the Democratic Alliance have been the biggest stressors on Ramaphosa’s government
Negotiating a broad coalition to hold the political centre was perhaps the president’s finest political hour
The EFF president said the party would be ready to go into a coalition government with the ANC nationally once it dumped the Democratic Alliance
The former president said political power was ‘only four years’ away
The South African Communist Party says it will not backtrack on its decision to contest alone in the 2026 local government elections
The EFF leader said Ndlozi was not at the conference and that it was not in the party’s interests to entertain such “nonsense”
It can be achieved through the regulations the education minister must draft
Deputy President Paul Mashatile said the president would soon reveal the fate of the contentious law after months of deliberations and consultations
ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile said the party’s national executive committee respected the SACP’s decision to campaign alone for 2026 local government elections
The party’s Gauteng chairperson, Nkululeko Dunga, ‘has no national ambitions’
Jacob Zuma’s party aims for a branch in every ward by the middle of 2025
Former secretary general Godrich Gardee appears set to be elected as deputy president
The party is also set to discuss whether to ‘donate’ its votes to the ANC after the poll
The Democratic Alliance called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to draw on a settlement with Solidarity to end the impasse over the act
The UN secretary general met International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, who urged Israel to halt its strikes on Syria
The party will hold a special policy conference to decide on how to reconfigure its longstanding alliance with the ANC
The ANC has put off the decision on how it will intervene in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal until next month
The Democratic Alliance is seen as having disrespected President Cyril Ramaphosa, limiting the chances that he might extend the consultation period on the Act’s contentious clauses
The Gauteng premier has called for the full Implementation of Bela Act despite threats of a court challenge by the Democratic Alliance and the Solidarity union
IFP and ANC leaders and members of the Zulu royal family are among those who want Buthelezi removed from the role