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Four square behind Cyril: The ANC NEC special sitting which deliberated on the Section 89 Constitutional Court judgement, has ruled to support the president fully. Photo: My ANC

ANC closes ranks behind Ramaphosa

After Parliament established an impeachment committee linked to the Phala Phala scandal, Ramaphosa has refused to resign, insisting the Constitutional Court ruling does not…

Dying breed: In the 1980s and early 1990s, labour reporting formed an important part of South African
journalism. Photo: Supplied

May Day and the disappearance of the labour beat

As the country marks another May Day, the central question is not nostalgia for an earlier media moment. It is whether democratic communication can still make workers visible in…

The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a handful of votes. All indications are that it will have zero impact in the local elections

ANC and SACP – Political Merry-Go-Round

The Communists don’t feature as a force of any kind in opinion polls and when it has tried its luck in local by-elections it has been routed, at times struggling to get even a…

Affirmation: Solidarity with Cuba, marking 65 years since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by the imperialist US regime, which sought to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Photo: SACP

We stand with Cuba, our friend

The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…

Will he, will he not? Despite the rumours gaining traction around billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe being in the running to replace President
Cyril Ramphosa, his office has consistently denied any intention of him entering politics. Photo: Milken Institute

Thumbs up for Motsepe

“This is not about Patrice waking up one morning and wanting to be president,” the lobbyist said. “It is about stabilising the centre of power before the ANC implodes”

Riding into the sunset: ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe said the alliance has been central to the country’s liberation struggle and all
partners were custodians of a revolutionary project in which South Africans had invested hope and expectation. Mantashe has indicated he is not
available or nomination anymore. Photo: ANC

Mantashe: SACP will pay a heavy price at elections

The ANC chairperson also urged the party not to elect a strongman president at its 2027 conference

Resolute: SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila delivers the Party message at the COSATU 40th Anniversary Rally. Photo: SACP

SACP ignores ANC pleas, presses on

The deepening rupture between the two was laid bare at the commemoration of Joe Slovo’s death

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

ANC denounces US actions against Venezuela as SACP plans a march against Washington

The two parties condemned the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife as a violation of international law

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)_

Ramaphosa’s tumultuous 2025

Diplomacy, domestic strains and a test of political authority underlined this year’s presidency

President Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC’s 5th national general council. PHOTO: DELWYN VERASMY

Ramaphosa: SACP members must recuse themselves from ANC election strategy meetings

Earlier this week, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said those belonging to both parties would have to choose between the ANC and the SACP

ANC  secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. (X)

Mbalula: ANC has failed to convince SACP against contesting 2026 elections independently

The ANC secretary-general said the organisation might need to reconsider the policy of allowing dual membership of both parties

SACP provincial secretary Themba Mthembu

SACP calls for investigation into disbanded political killings task team

Violence monitor Mary de Haas months ago called for an investigation into the allegedly exorbitant spending on and by the team

The ANC will have to manage the fallout from last month’s decision by the South African Communist Party to contest next year’s elections alone, and its relations with its other alliance partners, labour federation Cosatu and the South African National Civic Organisation. (File photo)

ANC faces a tough 2025 as it tries to clean house ahead of local elections

It will also try to ease dealings with its partners in the government of national unity (GNU), in particular the DA, ahead of local government election campaigning

ANCYL President Collen Malatji

Youth league president Malatji warns SACP against breaking alliance with ANC

He also said Jacob Zuma was a ‘counter-revolutionary’ who ‘sold his people for nothing’

Leader of the Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party and former South African president Jacob Zuma waves to supporters during the party’s first anniversary celebrations at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban on December 15, 2024. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)

Zuma tells ANC to reverse his expulsion and reinstate him immediately — or else

The former president’s lawyers say Tony Yengeni is being “persecuted” for representing Zuma at his disciplinary hearing

Messiah: Jacob Zuma wants all the black parties to vote for him, instead of themselves. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Merry coalition Christmas, and a happy GNU year

Jacob Zuma is vibing Black Jesus as the year comes to a close

Jostling: President Cyril Ramaphosa and Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi

Second political realignment is in the offing ahead of 2026 poll

The SACP, EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe party are all looking at potential new alliances

Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

Mbeki calls on SACP to engage in national dialogue as tripartite alliance fights for survival

The South African Communist Party says it will not backtrack on its decision to contest alone in the 2026 local government elections

Cake and eating it: The SACP going to the polls doesn’t seem to bother
Minister Blade Nzimande. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Getty Images

The December curse of SA’s political class: Congress time arrives again

If the original uMkhonto weSizwe had been launched on 16 July and not 16 December, we would all be on holiday

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has confirmed that it has no intention of deregistering as a political party despite a notice from the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to cancel its registration. (Photo by Laird Forbes/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Editorial: The SACP should talk people, not power

The SACP is asking important questions of itself but, like the other parties busy with political activities this week — and those threatening to walk out of the government of…