1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (914+ words) A confidential ANC report has laid bare the internal party weaknesses that led to chaos in the registration of candidates for the municipal elections and the omission of 51 mayoral candidates from the lists submitted to the Electoral Commission of South…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (626+ words) Some parties in parliament say the “GN—U bloc” within the impeachment committee is hellbent on “railroading” them at every turn as they prepare for the impeachment inquiry against President Cyril Ramaphosa. The comes after GNU partners — the ANC, the…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (545+ words) The ANC has now taken its 2024 municipal candidates list chaos to the Electoral Court, asking it to overturn the Independent Electoral Commission’s decision to refuse to process more than 181 nominations affecting six municipalities because they were not submitted within the…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (778+ words) As President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed Southern African leaders to Durban in August, municipal workers demanding higher pay littered the streets of Pietermaritzburg with rubbish. eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal’s only metropolitan municipality, presented clean streets to its international guests. Northwest of the coastal…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (548+ words) The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is, undoubtedly, one of the country’s finest institutions and, as far as credibility goes, ranks among the very best electoral bodies on the continent — if not in the world. This is a reputation…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (422+ words) Editor: Sunday Times and TimesLIVE It is an interesting paradox that, though the Phala Phala scandal hogs the headlines and costs the ANC whatever remains of its credibility, President Cyril Ramaphosa appears to remain the most credible and appealing of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (593+ words) On March 26 1999, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki, poised to take over as president in less than 90 days, rose to speak in parliament as the legislators bade farewell to President Rolihlahla Mandela. Starting off in poetic isiXhosa, Mbeki sustained the theme…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (765+ words) The DA risks losing its majority control of the City of Cape Town unless it intensifies its campaigning ahead of the November 4 municipal elections, according to the latest Ipsos electoral survey. The DA has 46% of voter support, while parties such…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (498+ words) Parliament’s section 89 impeachment committee against President Cyril Ramaphosa is “alive” to the reality that he may litigate against it on every decision or process it embarks on during proceedings against him. This is according to impeachment committee chairperson Makashule Gana,…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (455+ words) South Africa has spent centuries trying to decide what a coloured person is. The colonial state classified them. Apartheid institutionalised them. Democracy retained their categorisation. Political parties court them. Census forms count them. Yet the question of who they are…...