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Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)
ANC

ANC KZN’s Mtolo calls for ‘collective accountability’ ahead of possible dissolution

The party’s secretary general, Fikile Mbalula, has summoned the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provincial structures to a meeting

  • Mandisa Makgakga
4 min read
People fill out their ballots in voting booths at the Green Street Community Centre in Concord, New Hampshire, on November 5, 2024. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
2024 US ELECTION

Harris, Trump locked in tight US presidential race as swing state results pending

Bitcoin surged to over $75,000 as early returns appeared favourable for Trump on Tuesday night

  • MG Reporter
2 min read
Former South African and ANC president, Jacob Zuma. (MKP/X)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Zuma’s MK party asks electoral court to order a rerun of May vote

The party claims that had it not been for blatant rigging, it would probably have won the elections

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
Jacob Zuma, former South African president and leader of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party), during a news conference at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) national results operation centre in Midrand, South Africa, on Saturday, June 1, 2024. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
CHIEF JUSTICE RAYMOND ZONDO

Concourt dismisses MK’s urgent application to stop National Assembly sitting

The court said the party’s 11th hour application was without merit

  • Emsie Ferreira
2 min read
EFF leader Julius Malema gives a news conference following the South African national, provincial and regional elections results from the Results Operation Centre in Midrand, Gauteng on 1 June 2024. Photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
2024 ELECTIONS

Malema vows his EFF presidency is not under threat

The defiant leader says the EFF would prefer to form a coalition with the ANC than anyone else

  • Lunga Mzangwe
2 min read
Can Electoral Act amendments revive faith in SA’s democracy? (David Harrison/M&G)
2019 ELECTIONS

Elections: The great democratic swindle

The trust in democratic institutions in South Africa is in decline and there is general ambivalence towards constitutionalism

  • Dinga Sikwebu
7 min read
African Content Movement leader Hlaudi Motsoeneg and Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama address the media.
ANDILE MNGXITAMA

Hlaudi and Mngxitama speak out

African Content Movement leader Hlaudi Motsoeneg and Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama address the media.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
Order: Suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule’s fightback is underway. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
2019 ELECTIONS

Ace blames the weather

Party secretary general says the weather and the natural progression of democracy led to ANC decline

  • Natasha Marrian
1 min read
Professor David Everatt argues that Cyril Ramaphosa and Nelson Mandela are the only presidents who have polled better than their party (Andrew Lichtenstein Corbis/ Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Letters to the editor: May 10 to 16

Our readers write in about election research

  • Letters
1 min read
DA drop: In the Western Cape the infighting in the DA and its management of the water crisis can explain its decline in support. (David Harrison)
2019 ELECTIONS

ANC granted one last chance

The 65 percent of South Africa’s citizens who voted seem to have agreed that the ruling party deserves a final attempt to clean up its act

  • Natasha Marrian
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
The South African economy is in such a ditch that the country cannot afford a new party which would take months or years to learn how to run it. (Fabrice Coffrini/ Getty Images)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Ramaphosa’s reforms not certain

Local markets may enjoy a spell of post-election Ramaphoria, but the president now faces an uphill battle in truly fixing the broken economy

  • Lynley Donnelly
6 min read
TUT’s deputy vice-chancellor for teaching, learning and technology, Professor Stanley Mukhola, said the university was upping security measures. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
ELECTION RESULTS

Bloody sand marks student’s death

A protest over alleged rigged SRC elections at TUT ended tragically

  • Gemma Ritchie
4 min read
Confused: Many South Africans are woefully unaware of the nitty-grittys of the electoral systems at play
ELECTION RESULTS

Electoral knowledge: Is Steven Friedman the only person in SA who gets the PR system?

Given the befuddlement of voters (and politicians) on August 3, perhaps it’s time a course in politics is made compulsory.

  • Rebecca Davis
5 min read