Free State provincial minister of education and former trade unionist "Papi" Kganare has complained to the ANC about efforts by provincial leadership to exclude him from the…
Former Truth and Reconciliation commissioners have expressed concern about the once-off payment being disbursed as final reparations to victims of apartheid identified by the…
SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande has taken a side-swipe at President Mbeki in an article in the party’s online publication, <i>Umsebenzi</i>, this week, accusing Mbeki of…
Deputy President Jacob Zuma says French arms manufacturer Thales has denied the existence of a note alleged to reveal that he tried to solicit a half-a-million-rand-a-year bribe…
The "Coalition for Change" — the Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party — is going to be the black alternative to the ruling African National Congress, say officials…
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi has charged that the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal also has a massive, hidden arms cache at its disposal. He was responding to an article in the…
Tensions are sharpening in the ranks of the ANC ahead of the upcoming provincial conferences to determine who will be the organisation’s election candidates next year. By the end…
Key parts of Cosatu’s strategy to slowly unravel the cords that bind it to the ANC were revealed at its recent eighth national conference. Many — including Mbeki — might not…
At its "watershed" eighth national conference next week, the two million-member Cosatu will launch a programme aimed at putting the working class in the driving seat of the…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has described the corruption allegations against Deputy President Jacob Zuma as "politically most serious" in its congress…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will consider asking the ruling African National Congress to set aside 20% of its candidates for the labour federation, ahead…
Despite an upbeat assessment of the African National Congress Women’s League’s congress by some of its officials, many of the problems that plagued the organisation are…
Cosatu’s influential transport affiliate has warned that it will not tolerate beyond 2004 the "continued arrogance and undermining of workers" by the African National Congress…
Senior ministers, including Minister of Education Kader Asmal and Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe, played a key role in driving last week’s Cabinet U-turn on…
Last Sunday morning Mankwanyane, a sleepy village in Empangeni, woke up to the blood-splattered scene of the horror massacre of six members of a family. Survivors believe it was…
The Inkatha Freedom Party apparently wants to subject its national council members to a lie detector test to establish whether they have leaked confidential information to the…
The Department of Social Development is investigating Cash Paymaster Services’s (CPS) administration of pensions in KwaZulu-Natal.
Bizarre details of misgovernance, reckless management and alleged misappropriation of funds in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature emerged this week with the release of a confidential…
The KwaZulu-Natal government threw a R1,5-million party on the occasion of the handing over of the R5-million Ondini palace to King Goodwill Zwelithini last week.
More than 500 people are dying of Aids-related illnesses in Zimbabwe daily, according to the latest projections endorsed by the United Nations Aids programme, UNAids.
