Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
congress of the peoplelatest news & developments
Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota, who died at the age of 77. Photo: David Harrison

Lekota’s estranged wife fights partner for estate after more than R2 million withdrawn

Mosiuoa Lekota’s partner, Luzelle Adams, sent herself R150 000 and her lawyers R250 000 after son was court-appointed estate curator

Mourners gather in Bloemfontein to honour struggle veteran Mosiuoa Lekota

Political leaders and mourners gather in Bloemfontein to honour Mosiuoa Lekota, remembered for fierce convictions, humility, and a lifelong commitment to ordinary South Africans

Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota, who died at the age of 77. Photo: David Harrison

Lekota’s son appointed estate curator as medical reports question his capacity

According to reports submitted to the court, Lekota, who died at the age of 77, suffered from chronic cerebrovascular which had significantly impaired his ability to make decisions

Action SA leader Herman Mashaba. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Tshwane power shift: ActionSA poised for mayoral position, ANC gets speaker in deal to oust DA

It is still not clear exactly who ActionSA will field as its preferred candidate

Discrepancies on audited election results anger opposition parties

PADDY HARPER: Frivolous candidates and jokers in parliament

Independents will need budgets to match their egos if they are to contest the elections

Spin: Dr Malinga performed at the ANC’s recent elections manifesto review at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, one of several such reviews countrywide. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images

More parties than paper as election campaign gets going

The time for sod-turning and ribbon-cutting is nearly upon us

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) could unseat the Democratic Alliance (DA) as official opposition in the 2024 general elections

Malema faces his first big challenge

Growth in next year’s election will kill off any threat to the EFF president’s hold on the party

In an appeal posted on the party’s social media, EFF president Julius Malema called on supporters to donate online, saying that  “all peace-loving South Africans, revolutionaries from the African continent and the diaspora are implored to finance the revolution”. (Photo by Laird Forbes/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ActionSA, EFF crowdfund ahead of next year’s poll

Parties want members to cough for their coming election campaign

Former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse. Photographer: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images

EXPLAINER: Musical chairs in the City of Johannesburg

At the 2021 local government elections, neither of the two biggest parties got a mandate to govern alone in Johannesburg

Removed: Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images)

The Democratic Alliance’s numbers fail to add up

The party’s Tshwane metro contingent appears to have been asleep during councillor induction

Despite a high court ruling removing unlawfully-elected ANC mayor Dada Morero, the ANC still managed to score itself five new Johannesburg council chairperson positions on Thursday as it cemented its new-found strength in the city. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC cements its numbers in City of Johannesburg council

The Patriotic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters ditch the Democratic Alliance during the election of council chairpersons

Infighting: Congress of the People leader Mosiuoa Lekota (above) says he is still the leader of Cope, despite fists flying at his media briefing. Picture: Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Dean Vivier

Terror of old now terrorised: Cope slipping from Mosiuoa Lekota

The Cope president should have bailed long ago and saved himself an embarrassing end

Cope won’t join forces

Cope crumbles as party leaders turn on each other

Both factions have issued each other with letters of suspension

There is a silent nostalgia for Mbeki to return to the country’s mainstream political discourse. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Toppling Mbeki caused divisions in the ANC that are still felt today

There has been a silent nostalgia for Mbeki to return to the country’s mainstream political discourse

Nailing it: An EFF supporter carries a mock coffin with a picture of then president Jacob Zuma during the party’s 2014 election rally at Lucas Moripe stadium in Atteridgeville. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

The EFF is unlike other ANC splinter parties

We asked political analysts Ongama Mtimka and Mcebisi Ndletyana how the Economic Freedom Fighters defied the odds and why it has flourished

The EFF has decided to close all talks with the ANC. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Collapsed: EFF leaves coalition negotiating table with the ANC

The EFF has decided to close all talks with the ANC; meanwhile, the DA has not made any headway in talks with ActionSA as time runs out for councils to elect leaders

The constitutional court has struck off the roll former president Jacob Zuma’s application to appeal the personal cost order he incurred in his challenge of the constitutionality of former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on state capture.

ConCourt dismisses Zuma’s appeal of personal cost order – with costs

The former president failed to file papers or indicate whether he intended to proceed with the matter after his lawyers withdrew

Splinter cell: ANC secretary general Ace Magashule.

RET is a splinter party established in Magashule’s office, says ANC EC secretary

Lulama Ngcukayitobi warns that the RET group is not a faction, suggesting it has ‘grown into a formidable organisation that will contest the ANC’

Free at last: ANC struggle stalwarts (from left) Raymond Mhlaba, Oscar Mpetha, Andrew Mlangeni, early life, which were Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release from prison in 1989. (Photo: Sunday Times/Raymond Preston/Gallo)

Comrade Andrew Mlangeni was the embodiment of service

Kgalema Motlanthe paid tribute to ANC struggle stalwart Andrew Mlangeni, who died on Tuesday, at his 95th birthday celebrations last month

As vote numbers streamed in, it emerged that at least four people had been arrested for double voting in KwaZulu-Natal. (Oupa Nkosi/ M&G)

Objections will not suspend the election results

Smaller parties are threatening court action. But this does not automatically suspend the results of the election