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The ANC Women’s League are staunchly behind Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the party’s next leader. (Delwyn Veresamy/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

The ANC is at war with itself

Its integrity commission has found that factional battles are harming the party’s ability to function

  • Thanduxolo Jika
4 min read
Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president of the ANC at the party’s 54th national convention at Nasrec, Johannesburg. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Ramaphosa has walked a difficult tightrope successfully thus far

‘The party seems to have been held together by the mutual fear of what could be a weaker ANC’

  • Ongama Mtimka 1
4 min read
There is a silent nostalgia for Mbeki to return to the country’s mainstream political discourse. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Read Thabo Mbeki’s full argument on land expropriation without compensation

The former president is arguing that the ruling party is deviating from its commitment to non-racialism in the land debate

  • Thabo Mbeki Author
1 min read
The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
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Can Ramaphosa centre the ANC and quell opposition parties?

Picking fights carefully so as not to tackle all adversaries simultaneously is a wise political strategy.

  • Ran Greenstein
5 min read
Worldwide, the study estimates that a total of $2.4-billion was lost because of internet clampdowns. (Getty)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Mchunu tries to defuse Zulu land row

It’s feared that ditching the Ingonyama Trust Board could plunge the province into violence

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
ACE MAGASHULE

Election call up for Mbeki, Motlanthe

In a bid to halt its slide at the polls, the ANC wants its former presidents and other big guns to campaign for the party

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
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Letters to the Editor March 2 to 8

In an open letter to the president, a reader asks that refugees are given a lending hand

  • Letters
4 min read
The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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ANC unity cracks over land issue

Heated debates at the party’s conference saw the resolution watered down to appease moderates

  • Paddy Harper
  • Govan Whittles
6 min read
The ANC adopted land expropriation without compensation as policy at its 54th elective conference in December 2017
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

ANC to table amendment to EFF’s land expropriation proposal

In a highly anticipated debate could lead to amendments to the Constitution so that land can be expropriated without compensation.

  • Raeesa Pather
3 min read
Precious resource: Agriculture makes up only 2.5% of South Africa’s gross domestic product
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

What the lay of the land may be

Whatever route the ANC goes, a balance has to be found between property rights and restitution

  • Wandile Sihlobo
  • Sifiso Ntombela
10 min read
Hungry for land: The Economic Freedom Fighters championed the call for the invasion of land. Now the ANC has committed itself to land expropriation.
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Land reform a podium pipe dream

The ANC’s renewed commitment to land expropriation may be more political posturing

  • Lucas Ledwaba
4 min read
The strike
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Expect more tax increases this budget

R51-billion needed to close Treasury revenue gap

  • Thulebona Mhlanga
3 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

Some provinces still need new leadership

The impasse in the ANC over Jacob Zuma’s removal from office has derailed the party’s process of electing new leadership in several provinces

  • Paddy Harper
  • Dineo Bendile
  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Jacob Zuma once seemed invincible
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Only stagnant pools remain after the Zunami

Years of underhand scheming were paying off handsomely but the very institutions Zuma sought to undermine were finally his undoing

  • Niren Tolsi
  • Paddy Harper
14 min read
Zuma had filed the original appeal through the Presidency while he was still in office.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Bliss was it in the dawn to be alive

The final nightmare leading up to the post-Zuma era is over and the sun is shining

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read