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Slate politics was established at the ANC national conference in Polokwane when Jacob Zuma faced off against the party’s president Thabo Mbeki. this was the beginning of two distinct political camps.

Zuma’s corrosive legacy is self-inflicted

He worked his way up from poverty and imprisonment to become the country’s leader but he will be remembered for a presidency that hurt the people

In Polokwane in 2007

Zuma: From unifier to divider

Daddy’s decade has seen resolutions gather dust and the party left in tatters

The newly elected ANC Veterans League leadership will focus on beefing up the governing party’s integrity and consequence management structures to ensure that only “the best” candidates make its parliamentary lists next year.

SA’s democratic foundations shaken

There is a more dangerous reality here that we all have to take extremely seriously.

Minister Pravin Gordhan gets a warm greeting from former minister Trevor Manuel after his first budget speech as the new

Unlike Trevor Manuel, Pravin Gordhan cannot retire

The thanks Pravin Gordhan gets for his loyalty is a spit in the face from Zuma, in the form of the fraud charges against him.

Maharaj dismisses alleged involvement in spy tape collusion

Presidency Spokesperson Mac Maharaj rebuffs Mzi Khumalo’s claims on the spy tapes as ‘wild speculation’.

The clash at Polokwane is now the template by which the ANC’s leadership and policy processes are most readily understood.

Editorial: Feel it. The day of reckoning is here

The Polokwane conference taught us what we thought were the physics of the 21st-century ANC.

The ANC took resolutions at its Polokwane conference in 2007 to enhance both the party’s and the government’s service delivery.

Polokwane decisions yield a mixed bag of results

The ANC took resolutions at its Polokwane conference in 2007 to enhance both the party’s and the government’s service delivery.

Zuma is playing a dangerous game

President Jacob Zuma’s urge to curtail the courts’ powers could have disastrous consequences

Mbeki’s burden will be Zuma’s too

Wiith Mbeki’s persona no longer clouding the issue, Zuma will still have to answer the question: How much consultation is enough consultation?

The infantilisation of politics

Julius Malema’s rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.

Unrest at NWU (again)

North West University managers have challenged Naledi Pandor’s intervention at the unrest-torn university over a commission of inquiry.

ANC warns alliance about posts

Gwede Mantashe insists Cosatu and SACP members will share 20% of places on the ANC election lists.

Blame it on Polokwane

Pitched battles between different factions of the ANC in the Northern Cape delayed the start of the party’s provincial conference last week.

Zweli Mkhize. Photo: Lisa Skinner

The party of the future

Ferial Haffajee looks at the ANC’s health and education policies.

Zuma-ites grab union

Zuma supporters sweep out leaders of Mbeki-aligned chemical union, writes Matuma Letsoalo.

No more shenanigans

The ANC has warned against unruly behaviour — as seen at recent conferences — at the upcoming provincial conference in Mpumalanga.

In a populist vice-grip

The ANC has become fixated on the figure of the ”Great Leader” and this has contributed towards letting the populist genie out of the bottle.

A legacy under threat

Mandela is 90. But the celebration of a life of leadership, service and generosity is mixed with the sour taste of a legacy being polluted.

A blend of the two camps in the ANC might avert its sinking into the lowest form of rule.