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.
Jacob Zuma’s victory this week provided more than legal relief. It was also an important political reaffirmation.
The controversial tapes central to the NPA’s reasons for dropping charges against Jacob Zuma are "overrated".
Jacob Zuma’s prosecutor, Billy Downer, is not a happy man. But he won’t be quitting any time soon, he tells Adriaan Basson.
My family’s ritual Sunday lunch at home has not been the same since the birth of the ANC’s half sister Congress of the People.
Membership of Cabinet includes a constitutional practice of acceptance of decisions or resignation.
It is time for the public to take responsibility for choosing the corrupt and dishonest to lead us.
A new federation to rival Cosatu was formed recently. Matuma Letsoalo quizzed its leading light, Cope leader Willie Madisha.
Cosatu general secretary raises concerns about ANC president Jacob Zuma’s assertion that there is no need for a review of monetary policy.
The choice of Dr Mvume Dandala as the presidential candidate of the Congress of the People seems to have sparked a religious war with the ruling party
Church members, mostly in their twenties and thirties and in their Sunday best, hug one another as they file into the vibey, charismatic church.
No prizes for guessing the real identity of the main character in MacBeki, which opens this Friday at Johannesburg’s Market Theatre.
The decision to drop charges must be scrutinised rigorously and openly, using all the legislative and constitutional instruments at our disposal.
Black business is going into this election more politically diverse than it has been since the end of apartheid, writes Ferial Haffajee.
The ANC seems just as reluctant to reveal its funding sources as ever. Different donors, maybe; same secrecy.
Rapule Tabane puts 10 tough ones to the leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille.
There has been distrust between Luthuli House and the North West provincial leadership since the PEC was elected in May last year.
Sources said while he pretended in public that he was over the shock, his anger is still being felt in Cope.
‘Modise had the most to gain fom Hani’s assassination,’ says RW Johnson in his new book.
His overt association with Cope raises serious issues about the conduct of leaders in public institutions.
Helen Zille has received so many death and bomb threats in the past three weeks that her security changes her car regularly.
Instead of coming up with an original strategy for selling Cope to the voter, Mlungisi Hlongwane brought ”a carbon copy of the ANC’s elections manual”
End is in sight for the health minister who dared to challenge government’s view on Tibet.
Minister: that South Africans are in the dark about crime statistics must be blamed on the agenda of the opposition Democratic Alliance.
Despite gender protocols, women are seldom in the postition to redirect resources towards solving problems, writes Jessie Duarte.
The only party that will win my vote is the one that is willing to stand up in public and tell me the truth about itself.
Jacob Zuma’s visit to Rhema goes beyond politics — it’s about forgiveness.
Time to move past war cries and into real equality and a culture of human rights, says Pregs Govender.
Rapule Tabane asks UDM president Bantu Holomisa 10 tough ones.
Libya, Angola, China and India’s ruling parties boost election chest, writes Mandy Rossouw.
There is no doubt that the Judeo-Christian narrative has influenced the ANC’s political outlook.