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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansToday President Cyril Ramaphosa testified at the Zondo commission as the leader of African National Congress (ANC) in his testimony he alluded that he is not at the State Capture Commission to make excuses for the governing party or to d...
·almost 2 years ago
The declining political dominance of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has increasingly attracted scholarly attention since 2009. Political analyst Ralph Mathekga’s new book, The ANC’s Last Decade: how the decline of...
·over 1 year ago
The 1950s was an eventful decade in South Africa. The National Party had just come into power after World War II in the late 40s and wasted no time in legislating the most heinous aspects of their Afrikaner Nationalist ideology into the ...
·over 3 years ago
"Come clear" on who funded your campaign to become ANC president, EFF leader Julius Malema challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa during Tuesday's debate on the State of the Nation Address (SONA).Malema told a joint sitting of Parliament o...
·over 3 years ago
The next two days are set to be quite eventful, as the Cabinet Lekgotla officially kicks off on 2 February 2023. The Lekgotla, which will be presided by President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to be the most important yet, as the country battle...
·about 2 months ago
The court battle between the Democratic Alliance and African National Congress has seen the DA edge one point forward as the court ordered the ANC to release all cadre deployment-related documents.Following what has been weeks on end of ...
·about 2 months ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa has sought to thrust the National Development Plan (NDP) back into the spotlight as a blueprint to grow the economy, saying now is "not the moment to redraft policy".SA's economy shrank by 3.2% in the first thre...
·almost 4 years ago
It’s the late 1990s at the Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg. I’m with an American-born friend whose jazz tastes were shaped by the Chicago free music scene of the 1970s. On to the stage walks a slight, goateed figure in a blue African s...
·over 3 years ago
Prominent politicians in Jacob Zuma’s administration have made spectacular returns to Parliament, as the ANC announced who it will be nominating as chairpersons and whips in important parliamentary portfolio committees.Former Energy Mini...
·over 3 years ago
Twenty-five years after apartheid formally ended in South Africa, rural people are still fighting laws that entrench the former discriminatory system and limit their freedom.Recently, rural activists marched to the government’s headquart...
·over 3 years ago
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s third State of the Nation Address was longer on statecraft and strategy than his first of the year in February, even if it disappointed some critics with the lack of implementation detail.Much o...
·over 3 years ago
“I dream of a South Africa where the first entirely new city built in the democratic era rises, with skyscrapers, schools, universities, hospitals and factories” President Cyril Ramaphosa, SONA19It isn’t possible simply because the state...
·over 3 years ago
Throughout the world, people who follow politics are fixating on leaders. South Africa follows the trend and so President Cyril Ramaphosa has become an obsession.Ramaphosa, of course, replaced Jacob Zuma, who was associated with patronag...
·over 3 years ago
The recent squabble over the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank has very little to do with real economic policies. It is rather emblematic of the intensely polarised levels of political distrust that currently exists within the Af...
·over 3 years ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday issued a stern rebuke to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and Gauteng Premier David Makhura following their heated exchange on social media over the contentious e-tolls saga. Mboweni and Makhura were em...
·over 3 years ago
Most South Africans are poor. But this does not prevent politicians treating them as though they don’t exist. The invisibility of poor people in the country, who are estimated to make up 55,5% of the population was on display recently as...
·over 3 years ago
Former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself over to the police. Zuma has been placed in the custody of the South African Police Service as prescribed by the judgment that was made by the Constitutional High Court. Following the forme...
·over 1 year ago
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma threatened on Friday to walk away from a judicial commission of inquiry into corruption, throwing the process into temporary confusion and uncertainty. An agreement was later cobbled together t...
·over 3 years ago
If there’s one thing South Africans can agree on, it’s that former President Jacob Zuma has always been adept at putting on a show. This has historically served him well – even since he was ousted in 2018. But lately his performance repe...
·over 3 years ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa has dared his opponents within the ANC to try removing him at the National General Council (NGC) next year, according to a report on Sunday. As the National Executive Committee meeting kicked off this weekend, R...
·over 3 years ago
The grip of money on South African politics may be so tight that it could be impossible to govern – or seek to govern – unless you are beholden to private money. Can a new law change that? The Political Party Funding Act was signed into ...
·over 3 years ago
South Africa’s public finances are in a perilous state. There are four main reasons for this. First, economic growth is low or non-existent. Second, tax revenue collection is repeatedly below forecasts. Third, debt levels have risen rapi...
·over 3 years ago
A group of politicians, campaign managers and strategists earned millions for their roles in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s successful ANC presidential campaign, with some having been on the CR17 payroll for the 12 months leading up to the ...
·over 3 years ago
“The world changes, revolutionaries die, and the children forget!” In the song “Nizalwa Ngobani?”, `South African songstress and musical icon, Thandiswa Mazwai opens the song with a statement that has resonated in my heart and mind as So...
·over 1 year ago
The Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), John Steenhuisen delivered the party’s alternative to the State of the Nation Address today. Dubbed the ‘True State of the Nation Address’ (TSONA), the speech was presented in a bid to address ...
·about 1 month ago
In December 2019 Wuhan a city in the Republic of China was hit by Corona virus the first of its kind. Within the blink of an eye it had crossed to different regions, cities, towns, countries and continents. This was a dilemma which dro...
·over 2 years ago
On Monday the Members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) in Gauteng set out and marched to Luthuli House. The demonstration was against the African National Congress (ANC). armed wing of the African Natio...
·over 2 years ago
The African National Congress (ANC) has expressed that it notes the decision by SA Rugby to withdraw an invitation for Israeli-based Tel AVIV Heat to take part in the Mzanzi challenge rugby tournament. This comes as SA Rugby made this an...
·about 1 month ago
The Secretary General of the ANC Ace Magashule has been served with a warrant of arrest on Tuesday 10 November in connection to a R255-million asbestos audit contract in the Free State. Magashule is expected to have his day in court...
·over 2 years ago
The African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg has endorsed the Environment and Infrastructure Services MMC Mpho Moerane as its preferred candidate for mayor in the City Of Johannesburg. Moerane if appointed will replace Jolidee Ma...
·over 1 year ago
The Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) handed himself over to the Hawks ahead of his court appearance on Friday morning . Masses dressed in ANC T-shirts gathered outside Bloemfontein Magistrate court to show their s...
·over 2 years ago
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has released the results of the by-elections, which took place on Wednesday in 95 wards across 55 municipalities in all nine provinces. In a briefing the commission said the elections pro...
·over 2 years ago
Deputy Minister of State Security and member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Zizi Kodwa has been linked to EOH Corruption debacle following presented claims of payments made to him by Former EOH executive Jehan Mackay. Su...
·over 2 years ago
Democracies are precarious endeavours, as events around the world are showing. In most, political parties hold sway over whether the system delivers the will of the people, or doesn’t. So how political parties are organised plays a bi...
·over 2 years ago
from the years of her youth to her final days, she served the people of South Africa with dedication, with humility and with a passion that is all too rare
·8 months ago
Ndovu wawili wakigombana ziumiazo ni nyasi! When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers! This Swahili proverbs best describes the political climate that has engulfed South Africa since the rise of a new kind of factionalism within...
·almost 2 years ago
The South Gauteng High Court has dismissed all three applications seeking intervention between suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule and the African National Congress (ANC). The judge dismissed all applications with no co
·over 1 year ago
The DA is taking the ANC to court over the governing party’s cadre deployment. In papers that will be lodged with the South Gauteng High Court this week, the DA will ask the court to compel the ANC to hand over complete records of all de...
·almost 2 years ago
The death of Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu, Minister in the Office of the President of South Africa, has been met with sorrow across the country. Tributes have come from across the political spectrum for the country’s first government minist...
·about 2 years ago
It’s the small crimes that bring you down. Al Capone went merrily on his murdering way until the FBI nailed him for tax evasion. Richard Nixon seemed immune to the consequences of lying about Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile but his lies over...
·over 1 year ago
The ANC in the North West Province sent five of its members including the Premier of the North West Province Job Mokgloro for disciplinary hearing. This comes after the five voted in favour of the Democratic Alliance during the electio...
·about 2 years ago
My friend asked me for my views on the raging debate about freedom of expression, especially of the media. I told him that this time I have nothing to say. I prefer to keep my silence. Yes, I have chosen silence because I do not want ...
·about 2 years ago
The African Transformation Movement (ATM) is set to be back in the high court in Cape Town today, in what will be day 2 of the proceedings. This comes as the party is requesting that the decision to not grant a secret ballot on the Sect...
·about 1 month ago
The African National Congress (ANC) plans on submitting a formal complaint to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) following claims of racism acts by ENCA J...
·about 2 years ago
Former president Jacob Zuma appeared before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture led by Deputy Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo. Zuma's appearance before the Zondo commission has long been awaited, as in the days leading up...
·over 3 years ago
Within the space of a few days, we have been subjected to bizarre but carefully staged performances by US President Donald Trump and former South African President Jacob Zuma. Trump has spewed racist hate-speech against four Democratic P...
·over 3 years ago
The ANC NEC meeting is said to reconvene later today on Monday. The meeting was disrupted after disagreements over the step-aside rule. According to the party's constitution, the rule states that any member facing criminal charges mu...
·almost 2 years ago
Following the African National Congress's (ANC) extended National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which was concluded on Monday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa has given both senior and provincial leaders who are facing criminal cha...
·almost 2 years ago
The High Court in Johannesburg will hear an application brought forward by the African National Congress (ANC)’s secretary-general Ace Magashule seeking to overturn his suspension at the end of the month in a sitting of two days. Magas...
·almost 2 years ago
The ANC is commemorating the life and times of struggle activist Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu. He was convicted of common-purpose murder under the apartheid government and hanged in 1979. Today's commemoration will include a visit to Kgosi M...
·almost 2 years ago
The Democratic Alliance ( DA) has announced it will be taking legal steps to have the decision to grant medical parole to Jacob Zuma reviewed, as we believe this decision to be patently unlawful. We will, by way of an application to the...
·over 1 year ago
'The Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC in Gauteng views attacks and threats to our chairperson in dim light and as direct attacks on the ANC itself and as an insult to the peace loving people of our country'
·8 months ago
The second day of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) Debate concluded yesterday, with the opposition parties having a bone to pick once again with President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC. This is as Ramaphosa presented the SONA last we...
·about 1 month ago
The past two weeks have produced consequential set of events in South African post-1994 history with the incarceration of President Jacob Zuma for contempt of Court. South Africa witnessed a showdown between political power and Constitu...
·over 1 year ago
It is a historical fact that the economic prosperity of whites in South Africa is based on the racist exploitation and impoverishment of blacks
·8 months ago
The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with, as well as an indication of the disfigurement of its law enforcement institutions. The danger stems from the deferral of a “better ...
·over 1 year ago
South Africa is set to have a new deputy president in Paul Shipokosa Mashatile, the deputy president of the governing African National Congress (ANC). He’ll replace the incumbent, David Mabuza, who announced he would step down.
·29 days ago
We, as a country, have a serious problem with national morale.Everywhere you look – be it at individual, collective or organizational level -you can sense that ‘something is wrong.’ No doubt, over the last 26 years since the release of N...
·about 2 years ago
The DA accepts the decision of the Constitutional Court today, and its ruling that the IEC may re-set the candidate registration deadline for the 2021 election. The DA had challenged the IEC’s attempt to re-open the candidate regis...
·over 1 year ago
Police have opened a criminal following the disappearance of a SD card containing images of former president Jacob Zuma, being admitted to the Escourt Correctional centre. Zumas pictures have since then made rounds on social media ...
·over 1 year ago
When South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation on July 12 amid violence and destruction of property in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, he warned of several risks if the situation was not resolved swift...
·over 1 year ago
It has been weeks since we were all hit by the news that the former spokesperson of Carl Niehaus was to begin his political movement. This, following his expulsion from the ANC on issues of misconduct. With Niehaus announcing his intima...
·2 months ago
For the first time President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Friday deliver the African National Congress’s (ANC) January 8 statement virtually. Due to the rising COVID -19 cases the governing party cancelled it's Limpopo celebrations. In a...
·about 2 years ago
"The RET is difficult to define. It has no clear shape, leadership, membership, rules or policies. It is rather an aggregation of the aggrieved and aspirant within the ANC, linked by a set of broadly shared attitudes towards the state ...
·3 months ago
The Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC ) Ace Magashule and co-accused appeared at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Friday morning for charges related to the asbestos corruption matter. The Prosecutor agreed wi...
·about 2 years ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended his condolences to Dr. Frene Ginwala's family following her passing on Thursday night, 12 January 2023. Ginwala was the founding Speaker of South Africa’s first democratic Parliament known for her c...
·2 months ago
With The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) announcing its decision to approve Eskom’s plan to increase the electricity tariff, many have expressed their anger and frustration at this decision. The fact remains: with all ...
·2 months ago
Over the past weekend, the African National Congress (ANC) hosted its national executive committee (NEC) meeting. This meeting comes at a time a where the party finds itself at a crossroad in a bid to keep the house united while fighting...
·almost 2 years ago
The ANC is holding its first NEC Lekgotla of the year with its newly elected National Executive Committee(NEC). The Lekgotla, which is taking place over two days, began on 29 January 2023 and forms a part of the series of NEC meetings th...
·about 2 months ago
The ANC’s NEC Lekgotla has came to a close today, after two days of discussions behind closed doors. The Lekgotla is the first of the year and saw outcomes that could be tabled before government.Closing the Lekgotla, party President Cyri...
·about 2 months ago
Another audio recording from the African National Congress's (ANC) NEC meeting has been leaked, speaking to the SABC ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang says some senior party members who have been charged with serious crimes, including corrupti...
·almost 2 years ago
There have been mixed emotions brewing all around the country following former President Jacob Zuma being sentenced to 15 months in prison by the Constitutional court.
·over 1 year ago
Former President Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial resumed today, however once again the case has been postponed to later this month. The former president and French company Thales are facing some 16 counts of fraud, corruption, racketeeri...
·over 1 year ago
The Johannesburg High Court today dismissed an application by the suspended ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule to appeal a court ruling upholding his suspension.
·over 1 year ago
The DA and ANC are set to square off once again regarding the ANC’s Cadre Deployment Policy. The two parties convened in court yesterday and each brought their own arguments forward regarding the governing party’s policy. Court proceedin...
·about 2 months ago
The battle between the blue and green-yellow, and black took form once again, this time at the ANC’s home, Luthuli house. In what was declared as the National Day of Action by the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition took to the ...
·about 2 months ago
Following the nomination of Thapelo Amad from Al Jama-ah for the position of executive mayor, former mayor of Johannesburg has indicated his party’s plans to re-claim the City.The Joburg Post caught up with Morero after a break was grant...
·about 2 months ago
Following the Conclusion of the ANC’s NEC Lekgotla, the party held a media briefing to address all the matters discussed over the two-day event. The briefing was run by the newly appointed Spokesperson of the ANC, Mahlengi Bhengu Motsiri...
·about 2 months ago