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Has the tripartite alliance become an anachronism?

Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently of the ANC?

Chris Hani was shot dead in the driveway of his home in 1993. Photo: Supplied

Has the tripartite become an anachronism?

Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently?

8th December 1961:  Chief Albert John Luthuli, former Zulu chief, at London Airport ready to board a plane to Oslo where he is to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Peace.  (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

We need to re-examine Albert Luthuli’s ethos and principles to truly realise freedom

People continue to suffer from among other things unemployment, poor quality education, unaffordable health care and gender-based violence

Free at last: ANC struggle stalwarts (from left) Raymond Mhlaba, Oscar Mpetha, Andrew Mlangeni, early life, which were Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release from prison in 1989. (Photo: Sunday Times/Raymond Preston/Gallo)

Comrade Andrew Mlangeni was the embodiment of service

Kgalema Motlanthe paid tribute to ANC struggle stalwart Andrew Mlangeni, who died on Tuesday, at his 95th birthday celebrations last month

Children have to get basic services instead of going to school in Kwazenzele. (Image: Planact)

Mpumalanga municipalities fail to deliver services to informal settlements

The auditor general’s report on local government stated that most councils did not spend their infrastructure development budgets and did not address concerns regarding financial…

A new book analyses the evolution of the ANC’s economic and social policies and questions, for example, how Albert Luthuli’s blueprint for a social welfare approach became a market-dominated one

ANC’s past policies worth revisiting

Its social and economic focus was in step with its emancipatory role before its 1993 volte-face

ANC secretary general Ace Magashule. (Reuters/Rogan Ward)

Magashule uses KZN conference to rally support for Msholozi

The ANC SG praised the former president for the ‘most revolutionary’ decisions taken during his term of office

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Albert Luthuli died when he was hit by a train. But was there more to his death?

Luthuli inquest could be reopened

The NPA is relooking at the ANC leader’s 1967 death, and those of other activists

From the page of The Weekly Mail: Jacob Zuma

A comrade rises – before the fall

T​here was a time long ago, and not so long ago, when Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma represented the potential the liberation of an oppressed people held.

ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa meets with well-wishers at the ANC presidential gala dinner on Friday night

Sorting the saviours from the sheep

The Mail & Guardian continues its satirical guest writer series. Would-be tenderpreneur Apollo Mabuza gives us his first impressions

In Polokwane in 2007

Zuma: From unifier to divider

Daddy’s decade has seen resolutions gather dust and the party left in tatters

David Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally’s ‘Memory Against Forgetting’

David Goldblatt salutes a photographer whose work speaks fluently about people and events

Luthuli’s arms twisted

A new biography of Albert Luthuli surprisingly shows that he considered himself a Christian first and a politician last.

Zuma: Don’t fail Luthuli’s vision of SA

President Jacob Zuma said South Africans need to ensure that Chief Albert Luthuli’s vision of a non-racial democratic society does not fail.