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The ANC integrity commission faces backlash over allegations of factional targeting in Limpopo. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Limpopo is ‘best performing province in ANC list process’

Electoral committee secretary Chief Matsila says the process is airtight and the provincial secretary could not have tampered with it

Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction.

Editorial: Mourn not the demise of RET

Bathabile Dlamini’s presidential loss to Sisisi Tolashe arguably severed the last hydra head of the Radical Economic Transformation faction

Supporters of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa take part in the 55th National Conference of the ANC at NASREC in Johannesburg on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Luca SOLA / AFP)

Analysis | Ramaphosa will pay a heavy policy price for his victory

The president’s leadership strategy of trying to unite opposing groups within the ANC through key appointments across the board has failed

Former health minister Zweli Mkhize.

Why Ramaphosa farm theft woes pose a headache for Zweli Mkhize’s campaign

While Cyril Ramaphosa’s detractors revel in his possible demise in the wake of the case opened against him, those in Mkhize’s corner see a no-win for the ANC as a whole

Former president Jacob Zuma and Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu Lindiwe Sisulu during the ANC National General Council on October 11, 2015 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. (Photo by Gallo Images / Thapelo Maphakela)

Radical economic transformation ‘bullshit’ won’t change lives of poor

Lindiwe Sisulu and other power and prosperity seekers in the ANC had the authority to improve the lives of ‘the people’, but didn’t

ANC van at Malamulela, campaign workers were putting up posters ahad of the local elections on the 1st of November. ANDYMKOSI

Dip in ANC support for Ramaphosa leaves second term an open question

While Danny Msiza’s faction is gaining ground in Limpopo, those close to him say it does not necessarily mean Ramaphosa will be affected

South African National Defence Force soldiers and South Africa Police Services (SAPS) members line up in front of the Phoenix Police Station in Durban, on July 21, 2021. File photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Police absence in July unrest questioned at public hearings

The rhetoric had a clear political undertone and had to do with power – Pietermaritzburg business chamber

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe

‘Factional’ ANC Veterans League chastised by Motlanthe

ANC Limpopo leaders called on the election committee to change the candidate lists in favour of Ramaphosa faction days before Motlanthe’s report on factions in the party

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said some leaders of the Radical Economic Transformation faction in the party had made statements which were an “assault” on the party leadership’s attempts to hold the party together.

ANC resolute over its step-aside decision: Duarte

The governing party has identified 40 members charged with serious crimes who will have to step aside

The RET forces in the ANC have asked the Hawks to investigate Ramaphosa

The fightback faction in the ANC has launched a bold attack on the president after Brian Molefe’s allegations at the Zondo commission