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City of Tshwane station officer Arrie Visser and special infection unit’s Rocco Veer do final checks on their isolation chamber before starting a night shift at the Hatfield Emergency Station. The chamber is equipped with a negative pressure filtration system and is used to transport positive Covid-19 patients. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)

Relief is near in the scramble for vaccines

The health minister has announced a glimmer of hope with SA having secured 1.5-million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine

JB Marks was formed when the Ventersdorp and Tlhokwe municipalities merged in 2016. (Gallo)

JB Marks Municipality in the North West placed under administration

The municipality, that includes Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp, had been placed under administration as per a provincial executive committee decision

Self-interest: Then president Jacob Zuma votes for himself at Ntolwane Primary School in Nxamalala in 2014

This is the house that Daddy built

After 10 years of following the JZ story, I slept through Shaun’s decision to charge him

“Because a 50% or 60% [debt to GDP ratio] is not such a bad figure if the composition of expenditure is such that the bulk of it is an investment rather than in consumption,” says Nhlanhla Nene.

​Cabinet reshuffle: A new dawn in the economic cluster

The president made several sweeping changes to his cabinet which saw the return of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister

“We are listening to the heartbeat of South Africans and this heartbeat tells us there is land hunger

ANCYL call for rating agencies to distance themselves from Gordhan statements

The ANCYL alleges that Pravin Gordhan said that if Cyril Ramaphosa is supported for the ANC’s top post, there will be no downgrades.

EFF leader Julius Malema. File photo

Don’t be fooled by Ramphosa’s ‘New Deal’ or NDZ’s ‘radical economic transformation’

The front-runners for the ANC’s presidency have flimsy platitudes and little else to offer

The EFF’s secretary general Godrich Gardee said the party was opening the case against Mkhize for corruption and soliciting a bribe.

Eastern Cape ANC want Mkhize as Ramaphosa’s deputy

Despite Ramaphosa’s surprise announcement that he wants ANC NEC member Naledi Pandor to be his deputy, his constituents are saying otherwise.

‘Conference starts late and ends late under normal circumstances. I anticipate a small war over credentials

ANC’s wishy-washy  ‘race’  limps on

The hopefuls all bury their individuality to be slaves to party dogma

ANC treasurer general Dr Zweli Mkhize says that

Mkhize: I will help heal a divided ANC

Paddy Harper asks the party’s ‘unity’ presidential candidate whether his rivals have been wooing him

Members of the KwaZulu-Natal ANC Women’s League  perform in support of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the party gears up for the ANC’s next national elective conference.

Ramaphosa takes an early lead as ANC branches cast their vote

With almost a third of branch nominations completed, Ramaphosa is leading the ANC presidential count but NDZ is certainly not out of the race yet

(Reuters)

Deep inside the race to be prez

Report of the Mdluli Detachment to His Excellent Highness Number One — Only Fifty Days to Go till Conference — and edited by a British spy.

Mathabo Leeto

Mkhize works at being No 1

The ANC treasurer general is being punted as a unifying ‘third way’, which is gaining traction in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize speaks about inequality

Zweli Mkhize: We need to focus on inequality, poverty and unemployment

ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize speaks about inequality, poverty and unemployment and how the governing party can deal with the matters.

What a joke: Who needs men when the ANC Women’s League is doing such a sterling job of attacking women?

The ANC is now at war with itself

Every week sees renewed infighting and it will only get worse as it gets closer to the party’s elective conference

Teflon Don gets his way: Zuma emerges victorious again

On Tuesday night, the party mistakenly sent notes about its NWC meeting

Oby Ezekwesili

Gigaba addresses sceptics: Judge me on my actions not speculation and rumours

Malusi Gigaba is now on the front line of the Gupta’s battles with South Africa’s financial institutions

Zuma thought the court erred by holding him personally liable for the legal costs, as he was not cited in his personal capacity or given an opportunity to explain his conduct to decide on punitive ruling. (Reuters)

ANC top brass reject JZ’s ‘badly written’ spy files on Gordhan

The president reportedly presented the name of Brian Molefe as the new finance minister but the ANC’s top leaders rejected the president’s choice.

Zweli Mkhize leaves KwaZulu-Natal behind to become treasurer of the ANC.

Zuma under pressure as Mkhize quits

Replacing KwaZulu-Natal’s premier will not be easy as the president and ANC members have contrary views on who should take Zweli Mkhize’s seat.

Mkhize: Self-serving leaders a liability to the ANC

Outgoing KwaZulu-Natal premier Zweli Mkhize has urged ANC branches to work for the masses.

Zweli Mkhize, Jacob Zuma inspired to contest for ANC leadership points to a party stuck in a vortex of bad governance and stale ideas

Campaign to kick Mkhize upstairs

KwaZulu-Natal insiders say Zweli Mkhize, once a close ally of President Jacob Zuma, is aware of the campaign to kick him out of the province.