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The ANC’s membership has dropped by more than 33% since its previous elective conference in December 2017. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Existential crisis — ANC membership drops by more than one third in five years

Attempts to reform party processes have been undermined by members clinging to an anti-democratic culture

Woman alone: Jessie Duarte was elected and re-elected the ANC’s deputy secretary general in 2012 and 2017. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

It’s time for the ANC to let the women lead

Only two women have been nominated for a top six position – both as deputy secretary general

People entering the abandoned Presidential Secretariat at Galle Face in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 10, 2022.(Photo by M.A.Pushpa Kumara/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Tunisia Days’ ahead as inflation exerts political pressure

With high prices continuing to bear down on consumers the world over, leaders who fail to bring inflation to heel could face a reckoning

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has died. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has died

Duarte died after an eight month battle with cancer

Standard Bank has flagged a “stealthy” run at the ANC presidency by treasurer general Paul Mashatile.

Mashatile likely to get ANC deputy president nod from at least two provinces

The ANC treasurer general’s ambition for the number two position in the governing party will receive a boost from heavyweights in some of its biggest provinces.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivers a speech during a conference for “One Young World”, the World’s largest gathering of Young Leaders, in London on February 8, 2010. Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP)

Tutu’s death a moment to reflect and reconcile with South Africa’s past and future

The archbishop was a man of forgiveness who was bravely outspoken during apartheid and in the democratic era persistently asked us to look deeper and be better.

Community members of Ditsobotla Municipality protest outside Luthuli House on September 21, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. They were demanding that Hlomani Chauke step down from all five municipalities in the North West. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

ANC North West committee speaks out against ‘manipulative’ leadership headed by Chauke

From submitting parallel lists to misleading the court, list committee chair Lorna Maloney makes serious claims against the North West ANC’s interim provincial committee

The ruling party is scheduled to start interviewing prospective metro mayors this weekend with some usual suspects on the list. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Here are the ANC’s picks for metro mayors

The ruling party is scheduled to start interviewing prospective metro mayors this weekend with some usual suspects on the list

Pravin Gordhan, the minister for public enterprises. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Eskom killed us heavily – Mbalula says as guns come out for Gordhan

Detractors of Minister Pravin Gordhan are expected to use the recent rounds of blackouts said to have affected the ANC’s election results as a launching pad to call for his removal

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

What the EFF wants in coalition talks

The EFF is said to have indicated that it will be happy to give the ANC Johannesburg for Ekurhuleni and Scopa during preliminary negotiations

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The future is coalitions as parties battle it out for your municipality

After a dismal showing at the polls, all the major parties – with some smaller kingmakers – will now begin the horse-trading to run your municipality

ANC Eastern Cape chairperson Oscar Mabuyane

Mabuyane hints at possible coalition with DA in Nelson Mandela Bay

Oscar Mabuyane tested waters with the ANC provincial executive committee regarding a possible coalition with the DA during a special meeting on Thursday

Coalitions open: The ANC’s head of campaigns Fikile Mbalula (L), deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte and treasurer Paul Mashatile. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC prepares for coalition talks — and is open to talking to ‘everybody’

Hung municipal councils, most crucially in several metros, mean the ANC will have to find partners to be able to govern

Supporters of the ruling African National Congress  man their party stand outside a polling station in Hangberg, an area of Houtbay, near Cape Town, on November 1, 2021, during South Africa’s local elections. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

Is the ANC’s corrective action too little too late?

Although the ANC believes it has done okay in these elections, the numbers tell a different tale

President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in October 2021. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC top brass reluctant to work with the EFF

The ANC has reportedly received assurances from smaller parties about continuing existing coalitions, but its top leaders are hesitant to work with Julius Malema

ANC deputy president David Mabuza. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Mabuza told to resolve factional wars in Tshwane during meeting with ANC members

Some ANC members claim Tshwane’s regional executive committee is ‘dysfunctional’, but leaders will assess the situation only after the local government elections

National Freedom Party members at the launch of the party’s 2014 election manifesto at Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa, South Africa. The killing of a NFP candidate at Nongoma has sent the party’s candidates in KwaZulu-Natal into hiding in fear for their lives. (Photo by Gallo Images /Sowetan / Mohau Mofokeng)

How ANC bartered to save the elections

When the ANC was faced with possible losses in 95 municipalities, it approached two smaller parties in hope that its endorsements would result in trade-offs.

King Henry VIII, as rendered by Holbein the Younger.

Local government elections: Dear ANC, look before you leap

In love, as in politics, look before you leap

ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte.

Free State regions cry foul after dissolution by interim provincial committee

Regional ANC leaders have asked Duarte to intervene after the interim provincial committee resolved to dissolve their branches ahead of local government elections

The ANC can neither hold the centre nor lead society. The recent policy conference was bereft of new ideas. (Paul Botes/M&G)

ANC members take legal action over council selection disputes

Nine ANC members in the North West’s Greater Taung Municipality have sent a letter to the national list committee threatening to go to court should the ANC not respond to their…