ANC ‘only has itself to blame’ for missing deadlines to oppose the registration of MK
Many if not most South Africans welcome the decline of electoral support for the ANC. But the alarming reality is that the alternatives could be far worse
The Economic Freedom Fighters leader said the party’s secretary general, Marshall Dlamini, would replace Shivambu as its national deployee in the province
The battle between uMkhonto weSizwe party and the ANC will be a fascinating one, whatever the outcome of the current skirmish in the court, with Zuma continuing to haunt the party he once led in the courts, in the streets and at the polls.
Acting for the MK party, Dali Mpofu said the ANC was only challenging the registration of the party because Jacob Zuma was campaigning for it
South Africa’s political narrative is mired in a swamp of inadequacy and hypocrisy
The EFF leader has said that the door was still open to collaboration with the DA and MK parties after the elections, but not with Ramaphosa
The elections offer us the choice between the liberal/conservative group that offers no real benefits for the poor and working-class, and a populist, authoritarian form of kleptocratic nationalism
The ruling party’s head of elections has said the ANC should be worried that members were moving to the new party while the IFP should also be concerned
The figment of his imagination has defined the president’s timid tenure
The disgraced former president has a 63.1% favourability score in his home province. Whether that translates into votes for his new party remains to be seen
As the ANC’s standing and support sink to new lows, there is no emancipatory alternative ready to take to the hustings