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.
The party’s money troubles have partly been addressed by the fact that it will have 30 paid MPs in the National Assembly.
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 ANC’s transition team is working on a plan to restructure the presidency to give it overall power over funding allocations.
The man frequently tipped to replace current National Prosecuting Authority head Mokotedi Mpshe is former Limpopo premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi.
That the press is out of kilter with the voting preferences of the majority of South Africans is not a bad thing for democracy.
Gauteng Health MEC Brian Hlongwa is too close to power and there are systemic problems with any attempt to cut graft, writes Ferial Haffajee.
Zuma tapped into the mood of the poor black majority, but they too will turn against him if he fails to deliver.
When it announced that about 50 ANC MPs would cross to Cope, the ANC went into panic mode.
It has been a brutal campaign, stretching back to the ANC’s Mafikeng conference in 1997, but Jacob Zuma can’t spend too much time taking victory laps.
As part of the Democracy 2009 series, the Mail & Guardian presents the guide for the elections.
Cope has its roots in the liberation movement, its supporters are the same township dwellers that have voted ANC in the past.
A Saturday morning some time in March and my Facebook news feed reflects the passions of South Africans: sport, politics and polemic.
Zackie Achmat unravels the inherent flaws in the drive for a two-thirds majority and tells why he’s still going to vote for the ruling party.
Acting chief’s judgment: an innocent oversight or blatant plagiarism? Adriaan Basson reports.
While Rajbansi remains confident about his hold on the Indian community, rebel ANC members would prefer the cat to be put down.
”Mbeki took the view that the only way South African could regain its stature was to take an intellectual and philosophical lead in Africa.”
The legal fraternity is uneasy after the ANC president’s recent comments.
Free State voters are underwhelmed by Cope, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.
Thembelihle Tshabalala tested the reaction on the streets over the decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma.
Zille’s car – an official model on loan since bomb threats against her made driving her own Toyota Prius a security risk — is an unbelievable mess
The conflation of the ruling party with the government and the state is fuelled by the myth of the party as the liberator of a passive citizenry.
Mandy Rossouw and Paul Botes went looking for Thabo Mbeki’s mother in Idutywa and came away feeling there’s only one Cope supporter in town.
‘No anti-Zuma bias’ in complaint against Hlophe, Judicial Service Commission hears. Matuma Letsoalo reports.
A Zuma supporter who was outside the country this week asked me what was happening when I phoned him on Tuesday.
Mmanaledi Mataboge quizzed academic Sipho Seepe, a prominent member of Jacob Zuma’s camp.
The ghost of Cope is now hanging over the premiership race in the Eastern Cape, which is considered to be the party’s heartland.
ANC national working committee member Lindiwe Sisulu led an ANC task team on Zuma’s legal affairs. Rapule Tabane spoke to her.