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/ 13 October 2008
In true Cape style, two sharply divergent tendencies have now emerged in one of the factions of the Western Cape ANC.
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/ 13 October 2008
Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.
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/ 12 October 2008
The former premier does not believe that a party based on protest will work, reports Rapule Tabane.
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/ 12 October 2008
The growing flexibility of voter attitudes highlighted by research is good news for ANC rebels planning a new party to fight next year’s elections.
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/ 12 October 2008
The question should not be whether Zuma is good for Nigeria, but rather, whether a president Zuma can afford to call the bluff of the Nigerian govt.
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/ 11 October 2008
As the banana splits and the monkeys come home to roost, a key debate is likely to be who owns the ANC brand.
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/ 11 October 2008
A split from the ANC? Forget it. The time is not right for a split and any new initiative will fail.
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/ 11 October 2008
Boesak’s announcement coincides with the launch of the Social Justice Coalition by another UDF talwart, Aids activist Zackie Achmat.
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/ 10 October 2008
Like Lekota, thousands of ANC members and millions of potential voters feel they have grounds for divorce from the party, but for different reasons.
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/ 10 October 2008
Former deputy minister of defence Mluleki George is a key driver of the campaign for a new party. He spoke to Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 10 October 2008
The new ‘coalition of the wounded’ will frighten but not dislodge the ANC at next year’s polls.
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/ 10 October 2008
‘There are lots of nuts in the ANC who shoot their mouths off’, Pallo Jordan tells Mandy Rossouw.
The ANC’s Mosiuoa Lekota, who has announced the possibility of a breakaway party, did not show up for a meeting with ANC leaders on Thursday.
Efforts to form a breakaway from the ANC are gaining momentum, but analysts say the new party still needs to recruit nationally recognised leaders.
The ANC has taken a magnanimous stance to threats by Mosiuoa Lekota to form his own party, but Jacob Zuma made it clear that patience is wearing thin.
Mbeki was quintessential ANC, an integral and very key member, an arch-propagandist who embodied and expressed its spirit of democratic centralism.
The political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Monday he was ”hurting” about the conditions that led to him to say he would not vote were an election held today.
By this time next year Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will most likely not be in office, writes Ferial Haffajee.
What qualifies Baleka Mbete for her new job as deputy president? Her record as National Assembly speaker suggests she can get things done.
New Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi reported for work on Thursday.
The aftershocks from Thabo Mbeki’s sacking continue to reverberate through South Africa.
Zwelinzima Vavi’s statements of Cosatu’s views on post-Thabo Mbeki economic policy, recently published in the M&G, are of great importance.
Two strikingly different speeches — one saying goodbye, and the other saying hello. Two moods and two different styles.
Beatrice Marshoff remains Free State premier for now, but has been advised that she must leave her post, provincial party officials said on Wednesday.
An ageing Nelson Mandela’s voluntary departure from the presidency in 1999 was a great moment.
Lev David: I’m not panicking. We’re fine for now. And, just in case, we’re stocking up on tinned food, the way we did in ’94.
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/ 30 September 2008
The replacement of the premiers of Limpopo and Free State was not discussed at an NWC meeting, party spokesperson Brian Sokhutu said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 September 2008
Humble leaders would have considered it an honour to walk in Madiba’s shoes, but not Mbeki.
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/ 30 September 2008
The axing of Thabo Mbeki has triggered a sense of disorientation and terror in the hearts of the middle classes, both white and black.
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/ 29 September 2008
The Limpopo ANCYL will do ”everything in its power to smash” the formation of any party formed in support of Thabo Mbeki, it announced on Monday.
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/ 29 September 2008
Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa has resigned. He told reporters on Monday that he had informed provincial party leadership of this in the morning.