3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (787+ words) There is a particular kind of political courage — or recklessness — in dragging your own party’s dirty laundry into a court of law where it can no longer be spun, softened or managed away in a closed national executive committee (NEC)…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (741+ words) In 1912, when the South African National Native Congress (SANNC) that would later become the ANC was formed, its secretary-general (SG) was acclaimed intellectual and journalist Sol Plaatje, a man whose works we still revert to across many academic disciplines. Since…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (390+ words) South African Football Association (Safa) presidential candidate Sandile Zungu says he is aware of what he called “dirty tricks” used by the faction backing incumbent president Danny Jordaan ahead of the election, where the two will go head-to-head. Safa holds…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (782+ words) Looking at developments in South Africa’s political arena over the past few months is not merely alarming; it is a reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Our young democracy carries a history that is…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (803+ words) For much of South Africa’s democratic era, the ANC’s large electoral majorities made it easy to overlook the extent of its internal divisions. Arguments about power, policy and the direction of the country were a constant feature of its internal…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (804+ words) It would be exactly 20 years since it happened later this month, yet the memories are still vivid in my mind. At one moment, as the heated debate raged on inside the Gallagher Estate conference hall, a delegate from one of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (637+ words) In September 2017, former president Kgalema Motlanthe sat for an interview with the BBC’s HARDtalk and presented a stunning argument. He stated it would be good for the ANC to lose electoral power. The basis of his argument was that “those…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (631+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has come to Joburg mayor Dada’s defence regarding the expletives he used to refer to a resident during a meeting, saying people make mistakes and he hopes residents will accept his apology. Ramaphosa, who went on a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (165+ words) Pie in the sky — that’s what the ANC’s six-point plan manifesto launch is about. Where will all that energy come from when people have to take the migrants’ issue into their own hands? Where will that sudden streak of conscience…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (629+ words) Some of the most politically consequential promises in the ANC’s 2026 local government election manifesto are written in the language of administration. The party wants municipalities to rebuild in-house capacity, reduce dependence on consultants and insource functions where this improves accountability…...