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/ 26 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. The Democratic Alliance’s Helen Zille has her turn.
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/ 25 November 2008
ANCYL boss Julius Malema has apologised for creating the impression he was inciting violence with his ”kill for Zuma” statements, a spokesperson says.
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/ 25 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the president of the IFP, outlines the IFP’s.
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/ 25 November 2008
The political climate, with members of the ruling party labelling senior judges ”counter-revolutionary” resembles that of the nationalist government.
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/ 25 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. Evita Bezuidenhout has her say.
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/ 24 November 2008
The African National Congress will launch its election manifesto in January in the Amathole region of the Eastern Cape.
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/ 24 November 2008
The ANC is trying to find a suitable date for next year’s elections that falls outside the busy Easter holiday period, it said on Monday.
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/ 24 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. The ACDP will tackle five main challenges.
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/ 23 November 2008
An ANC draft-list guideline document, obtained by the Mail & Guardian makes it clear that seats will not be reserved for its alliance partners.
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/ 23 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. Lance Greyling of the Independent Democrats has his turn.
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/ 22 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. This is the African National Congress’s.
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/ 22 November 2008
The Eastern Cape ANC has clamped down on possible defections to the Congress of the People by asking scores of branch leaders to pledge loyalty.
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/ 21 November 2008
DA leader Helen Zille on Friday criticised ANC president Jacob Zuma for travelling in a convoy of 33 vehicles while campaigning in Limpopo.
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/ 20 November 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) has refused an ANC demand to stop using its new name, the ANC’s attorney said on Thursday.
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/ 20 November 2008
Jacob Zuma has nothing to do with an application to change the date of the appeal against the dismissal of his corruption charges, his lawyer says.
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/ 20 November 2008
The deadline for breakaway party Cope to respond to a demand from the ANC that it stops using the name Congress of the People expires on Thursday.
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/ 20 November 2008
People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not - there’s no alternative.”
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/ 20 November 2008
Bantu Holomisa elicited frenzied cheering at Cope’s recent national convention, underscoring his continued popularity with disaffected black voters.
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/ 19 November 2008
ANC’s vision of a developmental state is detrimental to the poor, the unemployed and the politically unconnected.
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/ 19 November 2008
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
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/ 18 November 2008
The ANC has served legal papers on Mosuioa Lekota’s breakaway party for using the name Congress of the People (Cope), officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 November 2008
Rumours that a KZN minister is expected to resign from the ANC on Tuesday and join Cope is ”a blatant lie”, a Cope provincial coordinator says.
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/ 18 November 2008
Marianne Thamm, Open Society Research Fellow for 2008, reports on new electoral volatility that poses a threat to the ANC’s overwhelming majority.
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/ 18 November 2008
South Africans are not overwhelmingly preoccupied with affirming their racial identities in their voting behaviour, a study has found.
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/ 18 November 2008
"What mobilised people for Zuma was the way he was fired as deputy president. People think it was done because he’s a Zulu".
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/ 18 November 2008
It is a mystery why we spend billions financing 20 universities if we have to rely on Harvard professors to advise on macroeconomic strategy.
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/ 17 November 2008
The ANC is in the process of raising concerns with the IEC over Cope’s name, ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus said on Monday.
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/ 17 November 2008
The Congress of the People aims to be a progressive party of the left.
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/ 16 November 2008
The ANC is scrambling to replace SABC board members with an interim board that will be more sympathetic to the party in the run-up to the election.
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/ 15 November 2008
While Mosiuoa Lekota’s Cope movement has yet to launch and the DA is relaunching this weekend, Zuma has hit the ground running.
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/ 14 November 2008
Mosiuoa Lekota should focus on policies and stop aggravating ordinary party members by ”urinating” on the ANC, the party’s KZN secretary general says.
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/ 14 November 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) submitted an application to be registered as a political party on Friday, its spokesperson said.