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Delegates attending the ANC NGC.  Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Editorial: ANC must renew or die

The ANC knows what it needs to do: rid itself of factions, criminals, careerists and money-chasing cadres

Do as I say, not as I do: The ANC launch of its 2019 elections manifesto in Durban in January last year. The party is finding it difficult to implement its clean-up resolutions. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC elective conferences face a second postponement

Covid-19 puts the brakes on the governing party again, as 20 regional and provincial elective conferences need to be rescheduled

Legend: One of Diego Maradona’s many career-defining moments was his ‘hand of God’ goal during the 1896 FIFA World Cup quarterfinals against England. Photo: Allsport/Getty Images/Hulton Archive

God just got his hand back

Diego Armando Maradona, the greatest footballer to wear the number 10 jersey, has left the field

Battling on: Despite his links to the infamous arms deal, the rape of a woman and now state capture, former president Jacob Zuma still has supporters.  (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Zuma-ists hope to ace provinces

Acolytes of the ex-president gear up take-back regions in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and North West before the ANC mid-term meeting

Sadtu takes big blow at ANC NGC

The ANC isolated its alliance partner by insisting on inspectors in schools, a practice the union views as a redundant apartheid appendage.

According to Ace Magashule

Zuma sets sights on tackling ANC corruption

As the ANC’s NGC drew to a close, President Jacob Zuma presented the ANC’s plan to curb corruption both within the party and the government it leads.

The resolutions adopted by the ANC at its NGC

Qaanitah Hunter and Matuma Letsoalo break down some of the more noteworthy resolutions taken by the ANC at its NGC this weekend.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s spokesperson Zweli Mnisi has resigned.

Mass protests could be our Arab Spring – ANC

ANC head of political education Nathi Mthethwa has emphasised the urgent need to address service delivery protests.

During the Zuma era, the State Security Agency (SSA) fought factional battles in the ANC, provided covert election support to the governing party and served the personality cult of the president to the point of unlawfully detaining one of his spouses suspected of poisoning him.

Zuma: I will never stand for a third term

Zuma appeared hellbent on not wanting to continue in his position as president, regardless of what ANC members and leaders want.

What the struggling ANC thinks its problems are

The ruling party admits that it is being dragged down by a few issues, Qaanitah Hunter takes a look at what the heaviest of these may be.

Mantashe bemoans tarnishing effect of corruption on ANC

In his organisational report at the ANC NGC Gwede Mantashe was severely critical of those who have brought the credibility of the party into question.

Former president Jacob Zuma.

Zuma blames factionalism for ANC membership decline

The ruling party has lost almost a quarter of its membership and President Jacob Zuma has placed the blame firmly on a "new form of gatekeeping".