South Africans have, in recent years, looked beyond the ANC in hope of finding new voices capable of holding the line on spending and corruption. Instead, what they have received is a bewildering capitulation and weak opposition
Some members believe the chief whip is out of his depth, which has left the EFF’s Julius Malema dominating as the voice of the opposition
The parties accused parliament of failing its constitutional duties after the delay, caused by divisions in the unity government over a proposed VAT hike
His departure follows verbal attacks from Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema
From parliament’s rejection of the Phala Phala report to the president’s signing of the NHI Act, the courts are again due to pronounce on consequential political acts
His resignation follows mounting speculation about his future in the party, particularly after he skipped its third elective conference in December
The secretary general said the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal cannot keep up with the uMkhonto weSizwe party
Vusi Mhlongo has been charged with bringing the Moses Kotane Research Institute into disrepute
Mchunu says the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is not going to die and will recover the ground it lost on 29 May
The court said how the uMkhonto weSizwe party had brought and then abandoned its application was outside the norms of litigation practice
The former EFF Limpopo chairperson claims the assembly is engineered to benefit powerful insiders and questioned the party’s commitment to democracy
The Jacob Zuma-led party will have structures similar to those of the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters, but will not hold conferences to elect new leaders
The Johannesburg high court dismissed MK’s urgent court application to halt JSC interviews
The former president compared the behaviour of the members to the ANC, saying they should rather ‘face the enemy’
The Democratic Alliance and Inkatha Freedom Party retained all their wards in the province, while the MK party took one off the ANC
The chamber did not fulfil its legal obligation to make a rational decision because it conceded making no choice at all, Freedom Under Law argues
The Economic Freedom Fighters once used the same tactic against the ANC after Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu left the party
Brian Molefe and Siyabonga Gama have taken up their seats just weeks before they are due back in court on corruption charges
The former EFF deputy leader has been tasked with restructuring and expanding the party’s influence
The impeached judge and uMkhonto weSizwe party MP said he would turn to the high court to challenge his removal from the bench
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader has reshuffled party roles after his deputy Floyd Shivambu went over to the MK party last week
The former judge said he plans to use his position at the Judicial Service Commission to pursue the transformation of the judiciary
Unchastened after a rebuke from the president, the EFF leader reiterated his claim that Ramaphosa sold mineworkers down the river
The president said the alternative was the desperation of a populist coalition intent on continuing the plunder of state resources
At the same briefing, the uMkhonto weSizwe party’s John Hlophe said the government of national unity would not last
The party also wants to be given the position of chief whip
The commission said the African Transformation Movement’s bid to overturn the outcome of the May election is meritless because it has no proof to back its claims
Rule by coalition government compels parliament to rewrite its rules
John Hlophe was impeached for trying to sway two apex court justices to decide applications linked to the arms deal in Jacob Zuma’s favour
The Democratic Alliance objected but the ANC accepted his nomination on the basis that no law or rule of parliament barred him from serving on the JSC
But there is solace in the fact that the Economic Freedom Fighters and the uMkhonto weSizwe party are unlikely to ever agree with the Democratic Alliance
The party’s failure to provide evidence of election fraud suggests it went to court with the aim of ‘inflaming the passions of the public’, the commission argues