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Lindiwe Sisulu and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma pulled together a combined measly 147 votes out of a total number of 3 308 votes cast for a presidential nominee.(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)
ANC

There’ll be a generational shift in ANC’s leadership, but will it lead to the party’s renewal?

Cyril Ramaphosa’s older rivals have been rejected and strong top six contenders include younger people like Mdumiseni Ntuli

  • Mcebisi Ndletyana
8 min read
National executive committee member Lindiwe Sisulu, who chaired the commission, told a media briefing on Saturday night that the proposal had been revived by female delegates partially as a response to the series of horrific attacks on women over the days leading to the conference. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

ANC Women’s League stands firm on chemical castration for rapists

The idea was rejected at the governing party’s last policy conference in 2017

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
ANC KwaZulu-Natal convener Jeff Radebe has vowed to remove any members that refuse to toe the line in restoring voter confidence.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Radebe says ANC will call 200 members named by Zondo to account

The veteran national executive committee member told media the party had an obligation to confront the damning findings against it in the report on state capture

  • Emsie Ferreira
2 min read
Ace Magashule. Photo by Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images/Volksblad
ACE MAGASHULE

Expropriation without compensation: A proxy policy position

The land policy debate will feature, again, within the ANC’s elective contestations

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
Uneven application: Delegates at the ANC provincial conference in Limpopo, where there were calls for the party’s step-aside regulation to be scrapped. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla
ACE MAGASHULE

Mantashe: Step-aside rule won’t be reviewed at ANC policy conference

Plans to convert the forum into a national general council meeting to review and scrap the regulation will probably be thwarted by the ANC’s top brass

  • Paddy Harper
  • Lizeka Tandwa
9 min read
(The Times/Esa Alexander)
ANC NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

ANC pushes ahead with plan to reduce number of provinces

The ANC policy conference called for a presidential commission to be set up, and for its work to be completed before December

  • Tshidi Madia
2 min read
President Jacob Zuma looks up at a statue of Chris Hani during his walkabout at the ANC’s national policy conference.
ANC

ANC policy anarchy – leaders are too weak to lead, or too weak to take over

The policy conference of the governing ANC will be remembered for a party in disarray, plagued with internal dissent.

  • Susan Booysen 1
5 min read
Prescriptive: Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba
ANC

Pension funds in ANC crosshairs

A contentious idea has resurfaced amid economic turmoil and corruption claims

  • Lynley Donnelly
7 min read
Flying circus: Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam and company could take comedy lessons from the ANC.
ANC

The ANC is tired. It’s also tiring

"At the end of it all, the policy conference was doomed to be a dull and useless affair"

  • Eusebius McKaiser
5 min read
President Jacob Zuma
ANC

Uneasy Zuma hedges bets

The ANC president’s compromise idea smacks of a leader backing a losing horse

  • Matuma Letsoalo Author
3 min read
Former and current ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairs Senzo Mchunu and Sihle Zikalala have spoken about the infighting in provincial structures.
ANC

KZN the biggest loser in policy resolutions

Key region and its allies will have only five months to consolidate support

  • Dineo Bendile
  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
The cargo ship MV Asphalt Venture arrives in Mombasa in 2011. After the vehicle was ‘arrested’ in Richard’s Bay the legal dispute landed up in a South African high court.
ANC

Zweli brings sanity to conference

Seen as a voice of reason, the ANC treasurer says the party must work with business to turn the economy around

  • Niren Tolsi
8 min read
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ANC POLICY CONFERENCE

Editorial: Good press, here’s a bone

The press prison at the ANC conference may have been instated because the party couldn’t afford journalists seeing how heated deliberations had become

  • Editorial
2 min read
President Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa on the last day of the ANC’s policy conference.
ANC

Zuma wants a second deputy president to eliminate ANC factions

Zuma’s suggestion, presented on the last day of the ANC’s national policy conference, took delegates by surprise and was met with hesitation.

  • Dineo Bendile
  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Enoch Godongwana said there was general agreement that the Reserve Bank remaining in private hands was an anomaly and that its independence should be guaranteed.
ANC

ANC weighs up land expropriation policies

Expropriation without compensation and nationalising the Reserve Bank are among the contentious policy options that have been put on the table.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
The latest move by the ANC to decline Lenk’s invitation comes after the party adopted a policy recommendation
ANC

Budget constraints may limit bid to raise age of child support grants

A proposal to raise the age of child support grants to 21 was one of the toughest debates in the social transformation committee.

  • Govan Whittles
2 min read
President Jacob Zuma told journalists that the ANC has always been united and that the media did not understand the contradictions in the party.
ANC POLICY CONFERENCE

Zuma happy with quality of conference debates

The ANC president said the level of the discussions showed that the party has been in government for 23 years.

  • Bongekile Macupe
3 min read
State Security Minister David Mahlobo briefs the media at the ANC’s policy conference.
ANC

Talk of regime change is not a scare tactic: Mahlobo

The ANC says South Africa has elements of a colour revolution: the role of NGOs in nonviolent response to no leadership, corruption and state failure

  • Dineo Bendile
  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Puleng Mogorosi
ANC

Fantassey, WWF, gqom (and policies)

The M&G’s series of first-hand accounts of the ANC’s national conferences through the eyes of insiders continues with another delegate update

  • Satire 1
4 min read
Straight talker: Investec’s Stephen Koseff warned against populist phrases such as ‘white monopoly capital’ on the sidelines of the ANC policy conference.
ANC POLICY CONFERENCE

Implement the NDP now, say leaders

Business, government and labour need to find common ground to grow the economy

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read