Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s rivals jostled for Israel’s leadership on Thursday after he announced his decision to resign.
Israel’s beleaguered Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, threw his country into political turmoil on Wednesday night when he announced he was resigning.
The ANC Youth League is preparing to mobilise organisational and mass support for a Zuma presidency.
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, will try to extend his rule to 30 years by winning a fourth term in 2011, state media reported this week.
Former Western Cape minister for finance and economic affairs Lynne Brown was on Friday officially sworn in as premier of the province.
ANC president Jacob Zuma would lead the organisation from prison if he was ever arrested, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said on Wednesday.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool’s removal from office is bad for the provincial government and the City of Cape Town, mayor Helen Zille says.
Recent statements by sports portfolio committee chairperson Butana Komphela do not reflect the committee’s views, UDM leader Bantu Holomisa says.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool will resign with effect from Friday, African National Congress chairperson Baleka Mbete has announced.
Higher education is clearly dangerous in today’s political climate. Zuma has no formal education, but that hasn’t deterred him.
The first Olympic Games in the world’s most populous country highlight how difficult it has been over the years to keep sports and politics apart.
The ANC and its alliance partners will establish a full-time political school in Gauteng to develop and train their members, the ANC said on Monday.
Lobbyists for Limpopo Premier Sello Moloto have made an eleventh-hour change to their candidates’ list.
The ANC Limpopo conference at the University of Venda ended on Sunday with the Jacob Zuma camp having taken control of the province.
Former ANC provincial secretary Cassel Mathale was elected the party’s new Limpopo chairperson on Saturday at the ANC elective conference.
Mantashe: the North West, the Northern Cape and the Free State had been identified as areas where Luthuli House needed to intervene.
Johannesburg’s executive mayor’s term is also likely to end soon, writes Matuma Letsoalo
The ANC has proposed a number of possible candidates to replace Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela.
”The theme for tonight is betrayal,” Ebrahim Rasool told about 800 family, staff and supporters gathered for a surprise birthday party in Cape Town.
Belgium leaders were in negotiations on Wednesday to resolve a fresh dispute between its Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and French-speaking minority.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Wednesday dismissed the notion that the party’s new leadership consists of ”a bunch of leftists”.
The Bush administration was recently forced to apologise to Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi after a compromising White House press statement about him.
What unites the opposition is a wish to see the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi ousted. But the parties have differing reasons for this.
Mozambican activists lack the power to intervene on behalf of the most vulnerable, says a report. Bayano Valy investigates.
Violence within the North West Province ANC has worsened. This week there were more assaults and the party’s regional office were torched.
Despite his allegiances, the Limpopo premier looks set to become the next provincial chairperson.
The internal democratic processes of the ANC are being compromised by block-voting and a winner-takes-all mentality.
The year started on a post-Polokwane note that held out some hope for the opening up of political space and free debate.
Barack Obama will stand before 75 000 fans to accept the Democratic White House nomination in a spectacular finale to his party’s convention.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s hopes of a thaw in the United Kingdom’s relationship with the Kremlin received a setback on Monday.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille, the mayor of Cape Town, has again called for a realignment of politics.
Far-reaching changes to the constitution of the PAC are to be put to the vote at the party’s national congress, which gets under way on Friday.