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ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images

Mbalula rejects succession talks, backs Mashatile as next ANC president

The party’s secretary general said he was only halfway through his current job and was focusing on rebuilding the party

Probe: Former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo heads a panel on whether President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala scandal demands an impeachment inquiry. (Alon Skuy/Gallo Images)

Speaker says appeal court got it wrong in secret ballot case

Legal precedent favours the ATM in its application to have parliament’s vote on the Ngcobo report overturned but the speaker says the court erred

Zero discrimination is essential to if we are to change the fact that 7.8 million South Africans live with HIV, but 5.8 million people are on ARVs, highlighting a treatment gap

PODCAST | ‘We’ve failed as clinicians’: This HIV doctor is changing how he treats overweight patients. Here’s why

HIV doctor Francois Venter explains why the treatment of obese people reminds him of the bad old days of the HIV epidemic.

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

UPDATED: High court grants Ramaphosa interdict pausing Zuma’s prosecution bid

The president successfully argued that submitting to an unlawful summons would be would be a violation of his right to freedom

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated in court papers filed on Tuesday that Jacob Zuma’s attempt to privately prosecute him is flawed in law. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

Ramaphosa says Zuma undermined his own case

The president said Zuma’s defence of his private prosecution bid relied on political innuendo but missed the legal argument

The government will extend the social relief of distress grant until 2025. Photo: Pieter Bauermeister/AFP

Basic income grant comes into sharp focus at ANC conference

The ruling party’s conference declaration has ignored the land expropriation without compensation bill

President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as ANC president at last year’s elective conference. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

No new dawn as long as ANC policy falls flat

Preventing policy from going wrong takes thoughtful analysis, robust debate and the political will to improve. But the governing party hasn’t taken these requirements to heart

President Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC 55th Elective Conference in Nasrec. Photo: Supplied

ANC’s NEC balance weighs in Ramaphosa’s favour

A few foes of the president were elected into the national executive committee of the ruling party on Thursday, yet the numbers stack in his favour

President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as ANC president at last year’s elective conference. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa has won his re-election. Will he squander an opportunity to salvage his and the ANC’s legacy?

The question for Ramaphosa, who would be 75 by the year 2027, is, just what are you going to do to salvage your legacy as the ANC’s 14th president and the country’s fifth since…

Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu will likely be top of the list of those who will get the chop.

2023 Ramaphosa will speed to discipline

President Cyril Ramaphosa finally has the top seven he has always wanted to push forward with his agenda

Newly elected National Executive Committee members of the ANC (From L to R) Second Deputy Secretary-General Maropene Ramokgopa, First Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane, Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe, ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa, ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile and Treasurer General Gwen Ramokgopa pose for a photo during the 55th National Conference of the ANC at NASREC

It’s a Molo Molo world as Ramaphosa’s forces win the day

Ethnic chauvinism and table banging don’t win conferences once one crosses the Drakensberg mountains

Supporters of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa take part in the 55th National Conference of the ANC at NASREC in Johannesburg on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Luca SOLA / AFP)

Analysis | Ramaphosa will pay a heavy policy price for his victory

The president’s leadership strategy of trying to unite opposing groups within the ANC through key appointments across the board has failed

Minister of Small Business Development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Small business department carries heavy weight

The department’s minister, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, said small businesses are expected to propel economic growth

Happy days: Cyril Ramaphosa takes pictures of the crowd after being retaining the ANC presidency. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

How Ramaphosa stormed to victory against resurgent Zweli Mkhize in ANC race

Fears of rebellions in the North West, Limpopo and Gauteng provincial executive committees had narrowed the gap against Mkhize, but most branches kept the majority of the vote…

LIVE | All the reaction from Nasrec as Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected

Cyril Ramaphosa has secured his second term as president of the ANC with a significant victory over challenger Zweli Mkhize.

Solly Mapaila, the secretary general of the South Africa Communist Party. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mapaila: New ANC leader must take action against Israel

The South African Communist Party’s secretary general has called on whoever emerges as the ANC’s leader to close down Israel’s embassy in South Africa

Ramaphosa’s campaign team have steadfastly wanted Gwede “Tiger” Mantashe to roar back into his current position as national chairperson when the conference closes on Tuesday.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

The ANC’s antics of adolescence

Lobbying at the party’s conference is akin to the top seven township playground game

The fight between Oscar Mabuyane (right) and Ronald Lamola hasn’t been helpful to the Ramaphosa (left) campaign. (Lulama Zenzile)

ANC leadership race: Gap narrows between Ramaphosa and Mkhize

The fight between Oscar Mabuyane and Ronald Lamola hasn’t been helpful to the Ramaphosa campaign

In an effort to garner support for the Zweli Mkhize camp, Mzwandile Masina has dropped out of the race for the position of ANC treasurer general. Photo: Sharon Seretlo/Gallo

Mzwandile Masina first nominee to withdraw from running for treasurer general

Both Masina and Pule Mabe come from Gauteng. This means the province would have divided its votes

(Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Either way, the ANC is still the #1 tsotsi

Despite having put measures in place to prevent corruption, little or no work has been done by the party, leaving it open to more scrutiny in 2023