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, 14+ hour ago   (59+ words) WATCH LIVE | Inter-ministerial committee briefs media on migration Sowetan RECORDED | Interministerial committee briefs media on migration The interministerial committee (IMC) on migration is on Tuesday briefing the media to provide an update on the government’s approach to migration management. President Cyril…...

4+ day, 18+ 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…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (269+ words) Ntuli said details of the leak emerged during a multidisciplinary law enforcement operation at the Isithebe Industrial Zone in KwaSithebe, Mandeni, as part of the provincial government’s Engangeni Ngesango Iyafohla campaign. The operation, which comprises police as well as officials…...

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, 4+ day ago   (224+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has reported on a successful meeting with the board of Eskom regarding the impending energy reform path. He emphasised the path as crucial to achieve an affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity supply for all South Africans. Presidency…...

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…...