Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that buying votes is a “new disease” gripping the ANC. “It is concerning to a point where it is going to dilute democracy within our organisation‚” Ramaphosa said on Thursday night on the Karima Brown Show on Radio 702. “We’ve been hearing stories that[…]
South Africans must choose a new crop of leaders that will stand with those who liberated the country, late president Nelson Mandela’s wife Graça Machel said. Machel was speaking at an event held in honour of Mandela in Houghton at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Mandela died four years ago on[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa won endorsement from most African National Congress branches to succeed President Jacob Zuma as ruling party leader, giving him an edge — but not a guarantee of victory — in this month’s election. Ramaphosa was nominated for the presidency of the ANC by 1,862 branches, while[…]
The SACP wants those implicated in the Gupta email leaks and Parliamentary hearings to be criminally prosecuted. The party is also calling for the axing of incompetent government ministers. SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, briefed the media on the outcomes of the party’s Central Committee meeting on Sunday. He said[…]
By Yaseen Kippie At a presentation on its Islamic investment funds, Kagiso Asset Management laid out its research on the effect of current South African politics on the economy and global markets. Kagiso offers an Islamic equity fund, which has delivered 21% return in the last year, and a retirement[…]
Controversial former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza will on Friday hold the founding conference of her new political party. According to a statement, “The new party is born out of a merger of several political entities and civil society organisations that seek to bring about change to South Africa’s body politic[…]
National ANC leaders are on Thursday expected in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg‚ where a legal battle between party factions is due to play out. Just before 9am party leaders and ANC supporters from both factions had not arrived at the court but there was a huge contingent of traffic[…]
Former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza is back in politics – in a new political party to be unveiled later this week. The outspoken Khoza on Monday joined a march by security guards to the City of Ekurhuleni offices in Germiston demanding the absorption of the workers into the council. Khoza[…]
South African politicians, activists and business people have voiced their views about State Capture and corruption within the government, just weeks ahead of the ANC Elective Conference. In a televised debate, Ann Bernstein, who heads the Centre for Development and Enterprise South Africa, says well established white businesses have accepted[…]
‘Your mother is making our lives difficult.” That was the chilling message relayed to ANC MP Zukiswa Rantho’s son this week, a day after Rantho chaired a heated session of the parliamentary inquiry into governance failures at Eskom. Rantho, who lives in Cape Town when Parliament is in session, told[…]
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