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In full swing: Fundraising for Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign to be elected as president of the ANC at the Nasrec conference in December 2017 worked like a well-oiled machine. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Intra-party funding must be open

The CR17 campaign did nothing wrong legally but all political parties’ funds should be regulated

The party’s numbers are also likely to improve once votes in Durban and Pietermaritzburg are counted. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Major ANC decline predicted in KZN

The numbers are a major blow for the ANC which had consolidated its support in the province since 2004 when it took 47.4% of the vote

Zizi Kodwa is the new Transport Minister. (Wikus De Wet/AFP/Getty Images)

‘It’s a dirty tricks campaign’ — Zizi Kodwa denies rape accusation

Kodwa, in a statement on Sunday, said the allegations were made in a letter ‘replete with false accusations’

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Unembargoed: December 14 to 20

The great housing heist: ‘Widescale looting’ leaves government agency whose job it is to build houses for the poor with an R11m deficit

The ANC has welcomed Smith’s decision to subject himself to an investigation by Parliament’s ethics committee. (Lulama Zenzile/Beeld/Gallo)

Anti land expropriation groups targeting Vincent Smith — ANC caucus

Smith has stepped down from all parliamentary committees, including those hearing submissions on land reform

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Unembargoed: August 31 to September 6

‘An open marriage’: The ANC and EFF are set to meet to discuss coalitions as the DA goes through messy divorces with metro partners

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Unembargoed July 13 to 19

Who’s the boss? Mandela never bowed to the king, Mbeki didn’t bow, Zuma didn’t bow… So why did Ramaphosa kneel before Zwelithini?

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Unembargoed: June 29 to July 5

Nowhere to hide: Treasury says it will leave no stone unturned in order to hold Dudu Myeni to account for a botched SAA deal and we talk about land

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Unembargoed: June 15 to 21

‘Illegitimate president’: Cyril Ramaphosa’s position is under threat from multiple legal disputes and how Muslims are reclaiming Cape Town streets

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​Unembargoed: April 6 to 12

Defiant Zuma supporters get ready to march on SA courts; the quotas question in the DA and paying tribute to Comrade Zami, Winnie Mandela. Read more!

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​Unembargoed: March 29 to April 5

This year’s God Edition explores all the unlikely places people have sought, or lost, God – and where to find Her

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​Unembargoed: March 16 to 22

The ANC is becoming a threat to the opposition again,and another child was found dead in a pit toilet at school. Read this and more.

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Hello Mr President: Cyril Ramaphosa elected unopposed

‘Only one candidate has been nominated and it is in order. I declare the Hon. Ramaphosa duly elected as the President of South Africa’

“The motion is going to proceed as tabled. And we are going to propose a caucus whether JZ will continue as president or not,”—EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu. Oupa Nkosi/M&G

EFF will not hand over “motion of no confidence”

Following the ANC press briefing where SG Ace Magashule said the party had recalled Zuma, the EFF is still pushing to move the date for the motion

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​Unembargoed: Mail & Guardian February 9 to 15

Catch up on the question of when Zuma is bowing down, what the residents of Nxamalala say about the number one citizen, and more

Show of unity: ANC president Jacob Zuma and deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa conceal any internal tensions as they flank Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma at the party’s policy conference. Delwyn Verasamy, M&G

ANC battles a test for journalism

As quickly as populist alliances form so do they unravel, according to Ernesto Laclau’s political philosophy theory

President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) and Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Western Cape ANC branches choose Ramaphosa for president

Cyril Ramaphosa has received another boost to his campaign to become president, winning the most branch nominations in the Western Cape

Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekoms knowledge about the issues his department handles comes from reading.

ANC threatens removal of Hanekom as disciplinary chairperson

Derek Hanekom has been asked to ”show cause why” he shouldn’t be removed as chair of the national disciplinary committee of the ANC.

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo by Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Zuma survives: The 18 NEC members who spoke out

A motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma, tabled at a meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee, has failed.

(John McCann)

Ramaphosa has everything to play for

Who becomes Zuma’s successor, and by how big a margin, will decide the fate of the ANC — and SA