The struggles have divided the party into two camps, one supporting interim president Mosiuoa Lekota, the other his deputy, Mbhazima Shilowa.
Mbalula’s call for Zuma to serve a second term as ANC president is the first by a senior national executive committee member.
Congress of the People (Cope) second deputy president Lynda Odendaal on Tuesday resigned from both the party and Parliament.
Alleged political instability may require intervention at a higher level. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports .
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The structure will have the power to recommend to Cosatu’s central executive committee to recall those who fail to pursue a working-class agenda.
There’s no blueprint, but a slow-burn ”organic” realignment of opposition parties, led by the Democratic Alliance, has begun.
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Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has embarked on a campaign to build branches for his party in preparation for the 2011 local government elections.
Mandy Rossouw and Matuma Letsoalo report on an emerging battle that could characterise Zuma’s presidency.
Under Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s relations with the outside world were dictated by a combination of economic opportunism and anti-imperialist posturi
We are back to watching the familiar spectacle of the ANC and its alliance partners at each other’s throats over this and that.
Violence against women and the oppression of women have little to do with men’s confusion about their sexuality or their sense of sexual entitlement.
Perhaps after years of so much suppressed anger in this society, getting a bit more of it out into the open might not be an entirely bad thing
The ANC has identified the Congress of the People as the main threat to the ruling party in the 2011 local government elections.
With hindsight Mbeki must see that he donated this political support to his adversaries and lost his job as a result.
Tensions appear to be rising within the party following its dismal showing at the polls last month.
SACP chief and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has also raised the issue of Cope’s windfall from the Vodacom listing in alliance circles.
An ANC report says infighting and internal racial divisions drove away the coloured vote, reports Pearlie Joubert.
Thabo Mbeki lived in something of a racial hell, his skin constantly rubbed raw by the devils of colonialism and apartheid.
As a transport minister, accepting a gift from a group of road contractors Ndebele was risking seriously compromising himself.
The aftershocks of the IFP’s dismal showing in the general election are still reverberating through the party.
Nzimande’s move goes against the SACP constitution, which explicitly provides that the post of general secretary is full time.
Several events this week showed that despite the alleged maturity of our democracy race and sex still define who we are and how we see ourselves.
It’s a delicate time for the media as the new people in power consolidate their position.
Under president Thabo Mbeki, the private sector was disengaged and disenchanted, despite being included in several presidential working groups.
Although Zola Skweyiya has retired from Cabinet, he will always be a reminder to the ANC of its expected moral duty, writes Niren Tolsi.
According to the IFP, ordinary voters were tired of the ANC’s inability to develop, the rural areas especially.
Mario Oriani-Ambrosini has been IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s special adviser since the early Nineties, often at taxpayers’ expense.
Cosatu has asked ANC president Jacob Zuma to add two more of its leaders to his Cabinet to strengthen the left’s influence in government.
The party’s money troubles have partly been addressed by the fact that it will have 30 paid MPs in the National Assembly.
The ANC’s transition team is working on a plan to restructure the presidency to give it overall power over funding allocations.