Mangaung Conference
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Mugabe was our fellow combatant — Mbeki
The former president pays tribute to the late Zimbabwean leader in his first address to an ANC event since he was infamously recalled
Free State ANC branches rattle elective conference
Hopes for unity are further complicated by divisions in the anti-Magashule branches
Unlike Trevor Manuel, Pravin Gordhan cannot retire
The thanks Pravin Gordhan gets for his loyalty is a spit in the face from Zuma, in the form of the fraud charges against him.
ANC top brass plan Zuma’s exit
NEC insiders claim that President Jacob Zuma is being consulted on ways to bow out gracefully.
US damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t
Anti-Americanism and Sinophobia are a chimera that our government should help to disabuse our professional protesters of, writes Khadija Magardie.
Pimples: No man is an island, Kgalema
Mangaung is a distant memory and the heyday of being Zuma’s play thing are gone forever. Enjoy your holiday but don’t forget to write. Life’s a beach, hey KG?
Ramaphosa epitomises corporate-state collusion
Is a sober look at Cyril Ramaphosa, presumed successor to President Jacob Zuma, finally possible a month after Mangaung?
Five reasons for South Africans to celebrate Mangaung
Did you miss the nitty-gritties of the ANC’s Mangaung conference while you were on holiday? Verashni Pillay tells you what’s worth celebrating.
Zuma confident in overwhelming support of ANC
President Jacob Zuma has said he believes the ANC will get overwhelming support at the 2014 national elections.
Grand slam for Zuma, but what about the poor?
Business, unions, public servants — the ANC conference in Mangaung covered all bases, except for the biggie, says Rapule Tabane.
‘Surveillance team’ claims evidence against Mangaung plotters
Evidence in court has confirmed how a "SAPS surveillance team" helped stop a right-wing plot allegedly targeting the ANC’s Mangaung conference.
‘Battle of Mangaung’ bombers to reappear in court
The four men accused of plotting the assassination of President Jacob Zuma at the ANC’s Mangaung conference are expected to reappear in court.
Mangaung: The way forwardish
As the dust settles after December’s ANC conference, Not the M&G brings you these exclusive scoops from between the lines next to the buffet table.
The Mangaung speech that never was
We have managed to acquire a recording of a speech made by Deputy Commissar for Deputised Commissars of South-Western Free State, made at Mangaung.
What drove the alleged plotters to try to blow up the ANC’s leadership?
According to a forensic psychologist in the prison service, a journey into the mind of a right-wing bomber is "brief".