Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
michelle pietersenlatest news & developments
President Jacob Zuma and Intelligence Minister Siyabonga Cwele on a visit to Marikana.

After the massacre: Zuma’s enemies fill the breach

The Marikana massacre has exposed an increasingly tense relationship between the ANC leadership and its fractious members in North West.

Vavi has lost the support of a number of union leaders who make up Cosatu’s central executive committee.

Vavi: Foes on high, friends on ground

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has been dealt a double blow, losing two allies weeks before the labour federation’s national conference.

Free State Premier Ace Magashule.

I support Zuma 100%, says Ace Magashule

Free State Premier and chair Ace Magashule has hailed Jacob Zuma as an intellectual as he explains why he supports the president’s re-election bid.

ANC leaders say education MEC Dickson Masemola and Premier ­Cassel Mathale are also responsible for the Limpopo crisis.

Zuma’s choice: Politics vs pupils

Presidential task team members believe Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga should be fired but President Jacob Zuma needs her women’s league.

The Mail & Guardian has seen the agreement between the municipality and the company as well as correspondence between Tyatya and Altech Netstar.

North West town boss under fire over contract

Sandile Tyatya has raised the ire of officials in the council after he entered into a R4.5-million contract with Altech Netstar.

Supra Mahumapelo is facing a palace revolt

Supra Mahumapelo got travel agency cash

Mahumapelo has pocketed at least R200000 through his travel agency’s business dealings with an ailing municipality in the province.

Supra Mahumapelo is facing a palace revolt

ANC leadership fails North West

The ANC is under intense pressure to release reports about the problems that plague the province.

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.

Vavi shocked by ‘unprecedented’ Sadtu attack

Sadtu members in Limpopo released a scathing statement this week signed by its secretary, Matome Raphasha, and his deputy, Sowell Tjebane.

Magdalene Moonsamy.

Youth league’s Moonsamy takes on ‘irresponsible remarks’

ANCYL member Magdalene Moonsamy has taken on Deputy Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni over her remarks about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Opposition parties have rejected a proposal put forward by the ANC chief whip that a motion of no confidence in the president be debated in February.

Divisions multiply as Zuma’s unity talk rings hollow

Efforts to emulate Mandela haven’t worked out well for President Zuma, who has done more to divide the ANC than unite it, writes Michelle Pietersen.

It is claimed that some veterans at the event were too young to have been in Umkhonto weSizwe.

Brutal ‘ANC vets’ in the firing line

The ANC’s ex-soldiers are accused of intimidating Jacob Zuma’s opponents at the Mandela lecture this week, writes Michelle Pietersen.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela wth Zondwa and Zenani Mandela.

Winnie slams ANC for not caring in scathing letter

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has accused the ANC, under President Jacob Zuma’s leadership, of disrespecting the Mandela family.

State wage increases continue to exceed inflation.

Little clarity on Zuma’s jobs grant

Derisive senior ANC members and others have pointed out that there are no jobs for the seekers to seek, writes Michelle Pietersen.

Former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.

Juju tells us what he really thinks of Zuma

Jacob Zuma’s legacy will be defined by promiscuity, corruption and a suppression of debate – he must be removed at Mangaung, says Julius Malema.

Zuma has criticised people who said South Africa’s poverty and wealth gap had widened since the ruling party took over in 1994.

Zuma’s second transition rejected by ANC commissions

Insiders say the second transition document championed by President Jacob Zuma was rejected, dealing a blow to his re-election campaign.

Free State Premier Ace Magashule wants to retain his position in an election that his opposition claims is fraught with inconsistencies.

Ace set to win Free State for JZ

Free State premier Ace Magashule looks set to retain his seat as ANC chairperson at this weekend’s provincial conference, writes Michelle Pietersen.

Elsie Visagie says their shack is cold but at least it is ‘a roof over our heads’.

Hope survives in a forgotten settlement

Hardship is a way of life for those who stay in a Northern Cape village in ‘an old South Africa’, writes Michelle Pietersen.

Jacob Zuma lauded Thabo Mbeki’s role in the fight against apartheid and as president at an ANC centenary lecture honouring the former president.

Mbeki gives ANCYL nudge of support after birthday wishes

In an apparent show of support, Thabo Mbeki has in a letter thanked the ANC Youth League for its birthday wishes.

Deputy minister of higher education Mduduzi Manana is sworn in.

Sasco lashes out at education reshuffle

Sasco says Jacob Zuma’s appointment of Mdu Manana as deputy higher education minister is proof that his government doesn’t take education seriously.

Claims from some ANC members in the province that the PEC wasn’t properly constituted were heard.

Northern Cape ANC backs land reform, nixes mine grab

The ANC in the Northern Cape has given its blessing to more aggressive land reform, but drawn the line at the wholesale nationalisation of mines.