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ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula.

‘Mammoth task’ ahead, says Mbalula of reconfigured ANC in KwaZulu-Natal

Outspoken secretary Bheki Mtolo has been kept on the books as the convenor of policy, planning and monitoring

Premier Panyaza Lesufi at the release of the quality of life survey by the  Gauteng City-Region Observatory  (GCRO) at Radisson Blu on October 22, 2024 in Sandton. (Photo by Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Succession fuels Gauteng coalition woes

Strain over the ANC coalition with the EFF in Ekurhuleni seems linked to leadership battles

Democratic Alliance federal council chairperson Helen Zille. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Zille vows DA payback in Ekurhuleni, eThekwini over Tshwane mayoral vote

The ANC must ‘watch this space’ the DA federal chairperson says

Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza. (Papi Morake/Gallo Images)

ANC-DA coalition negotiations over a new Ekurhuleni deal get under way

Ekurhuleni’s ANC plans to exclude the Economic Freedom Fighters and bring in the Democratic Alliance, plus Patriotic Alliance and ActionSA

Zwane was charged and arrested in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, for allegedly shooting a security guard who tried to compel him to use hand sanitiser. File photo

MK party reinstates Arthur Zwane a week after his ‘resignation’

Zwane quit his post because he could not balance work for the party and his business

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.  (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Gauteng Premier Lesufi delays executive council announcement amid DA-ANC standoff

The ANC accuses the Democratic Alliance of bullying, while the latter in turn has criticised the ANC’s negotiation tactics This content is restricted to registered users and…

President Cyril Ramaphosa with Chief Justice Raymond Zondo after taking the presidential oath. (Pool)

FULL COVERAGE | Cyril Ramaphosa is inaugurated

The president said the formation of a Government of National Unity was the beginning of a new era for South Africa

President of the African National Congress (ANC) Cyril Ramaphosa gestures after he was announced South African president after members of parliament voted during the first sitting of the country’s new  parliament in Cape Town on June 14, 2024. (Photo by WIKUS DE WET / AFP)

FULL COVERAGE | Inauguration of Cyril Ramaphosa

Following much pomp and ceremony, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo will administer the Presidential Oath of Office, after which Ramaphosa will give an address

The EFF at their manifesto launch earlier this year. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Will socialism work in South Africa?

Unless South Africans see a direct improvement to their livelihoods, it will result in civil unrest

An ANC volunteer carries a poster of Cyril Ramaphosa as she prepares to erect a party station at the Msholozi Informal Settlement near Brakpan, Johannesburg. (File photo by Delwyn Verasamy/MG)

Why ‘Confidence and Supply’ is the best option for South Africa’s ANC in a divided political landscape 

How the numbers could play out with various parties when the ANC is 42 parliamentary seats short

How will a coalition transform our society

Coalition country: Time for South Africans to talk about our shared future

The politicians are haggling over our future but we citizens created the situation and so we need to fix it

The uncertainty created by the possibility of a coalition government
is putting people off big-price buys

Property sales slow ahead of poll

The uncertainty created by the possibility of a coalition government is putting people off big-price buys

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe

Mantashe: Don’t rely on government to get you out of poverty

The ANC leader said a recently agreed multi-party coalition was made up of ‘apartheid’ and ‘bantustan’ parties with an ‘evil intent’

DA leader John Steenhuisen. Photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Steenhuisen: Moonshot pact is not anti-ANC

The DA leader has said the pact was about dislodging the ruling party and stopping a coalition between the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters

Graphic: John McCann/M&G

Calling for true leaders to raise their hands to lead South Africa

The onus is on us to increase the calibre of leadership we allow through the door

Complicated political minefield on how to approach coalition-forming

The instability of hung local governments is driving the ANC’s new-found need to get to grips with coalition politics

Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency)

Is the triumphant victory for Tayyip Erdogan a defeat for the West?

Despite the sultan of Istanbul being at the helm of power for 20 years and counting, he managed to come through in a heavily contested general election of 2023

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Steenhuisen goes for the jugular in acceptance speech as DA leader

Re-elected leader calls for ‘moonshot pact’ with other political parties to oust the ANC and keep the EFF out by securing a 51% coalition in next year’s election

Outgoing Nelson Mandela Bay mayor, Retief Odendaal. Photo: Supplied

‘The DA cannot share power with the ANC’ – Retief Odendaal

The Nelson Mandela Bay mayor has gone against the DA fray, advising against any coalition with the governing party, which ‘must be punished democratically’

Johannesburg councillors  on Thursday voted out Democratic Alliance mayor Mpho Phalatse for the second time

Mpho Phalatse ‘sad’ for Joburg residents after her second ousting as mayor

At a council meeting, 140 councillors voted to remove Phalatse, while 129 supported her