Julius Malema has been ordered to apologise to President Jacob Zuma and attend anger management classes following his disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has hailed the acquittal of Roy Bennett on terror charges as "very positive".
With powerful factions preparing for battle, his reluctance to act decisively is making his position precarious.
Cope in Mpumalanga is in disarray, with three members out on bail and a fourth recalled from the only seat the party occupies in the province.
President Zuma, who personally intervened in the protests, has complained that government officials at other levels have not followed up on his work.
Zimbabwe police on Tuesday seized photographs from an exhibition depicting repression under President Robert Mugabe, and arrested the organiser.
The Nigerian president has arrived back home after a three-month absence that left the West African country in political limbo.
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/ 22 February 2010
ANC Communications boss Jackson Mthembu’s speaks to Matuma Letsoalo on the controversy around JZ’s love child.
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/ 5 February 2010
The State of the Nation speech Jacob Zuma will not be giving on Thursday February 11.
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/ 20 November 2009
The opposition’s new rock star has been making waves in Parliament with his can-do attitude, writes Marianne Thamm.
Don’t underestimate how differently this government sees itself from its predecessor.
Of course, politicians understand this efficacy just as well as commercial sponsors do — and are quick to deploy it for good or ill.
President Jacob Zuma has become relaxed and confident in his role as the country’s leader.
Despite maintaining a low-key political presence, Kgalema Motlanthe is a busy vice-president.
The new government is window-dressing to conceal motives that have nothing to do with the welfare of the country.
Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane’s crackdown on corruption is changing the balance of political power in the province.
Lesotho opposition parties say they have asked the electoral commission to start a legal process to get 21 MPs removed from their seats.
The national leadership of Cope gathered at its headquarters on Friday to tackle the problems facing the fledgling party.
President Jacob Zuma’s sponsor is cagey about his company’s middleman activities and offshore account payments. Sam Sole reports.
First the long knives were out for Namibia’s President Hifikepunye Pohamba, now they are willing to fall on their swords and die for him.
We should all speak against the attack on Unisa’s vice-chancellor Barney Pityana.
Forty days before the election, Ekurhuleni’s city manager Patrick Flusk has threatened to dissolve the municipality’s council.
Mandy Rossouw talked to the heads of the student representative councils at some of our major universities to find out what’s on their agenda.
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/ 26 December 2008
Adriaan Basson asks if public toilets are the last uncensored spaces to air one’s views.
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/ 19 December 2008
Opposition parties, including Cope, could obtain as much as 40% of combined votes in next year’s general election, according to a survey.
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/ 18 December 2008
A year of scandal and ill-health hasn’t dulled Steve Hofmeyr’s allure, or rubbed the edges off his contradictions. Pearlie Joubert talked to him.
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/ 26 November 2008
Thailand’s army chief told the elected government on Wednesday to step down and call a snap election as a way out of a deepening political crisis.
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/ 20 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary.
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/ 3 November 2008
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has emerged as a key role player in the removal of prisons director general Vernie Petersen from his job.
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/ 17 October 2008
Even if the Zimbabwean power-sharing deal had not reached a deadlock over the allocation of Cabinet posts, there were already many signs of failure.
For the first time in South Africa, political parties could soon be flighting adverts on television — but not if the SABC has its way.
The only way Kgalema Motlanthe can continue as SA’s president after the 2009 elections is if ANC president Jacob Zuma agrees.