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Ramaphosa can rely on the ex-ANC spokesperson to sniff out any shenanigans by Zuma diehards

Party hit by defection to ANC and publicising of secret diplomatic cables.

A report that former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the formation of Cope was a "misinterpretation", a Unisa professor said on Thursday.

According to a secret US diplomatic note, former president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the creation of Cope policy — a claim he has denied.

SACP chief and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has also raised the issue of Cope’s windfall from the Vodacom listing in alliance circles.

The interim leadership of the Congress of the People were on Tuesday confirmed in their positions. The leadership group was extended to 12 people.

Cope on Tuesday joined in the chorus of opposition criticism of President Kgalema Motlanthe’s decision to dismiss prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli.

Congress of the People co-founder Mbhazima Shilowa said on Saturday that the party was not planning to be an opposition formation.

The ANC has served legal papers on Mosuioa Lekota’s breakaway party for using the name Congress of the People (Cope), officials said on Tuesday.

Former ANC communications chief Smuts Ngonyama has slammed a report that his secretary was a spy for the Cope breakaway party.

Smuts Ngonyama said he had resigned from the ANC because he was no longer able to tolerate the recent disrespect of authority in the party.

Former African National Congress (ANC) communications chief Smuts Ngonyama will resign from the ruling party on Thursday, he said.

It was not surprising to see that the two conferences of the ANC this past weekend in Cape Town did their combating through song.

Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.

As the battle within the ANC rages on, the mixed messages emanating from Telkom’s head office suggest that it may be caught in a power struggle.

The decline in the matric pass rate is worrying, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said in Pretoria on Friday. The country needed to increase the number of candidates for entry…

The African National Congress (ANC) plans to examine further a proposal to set up a media tribunal, the party said on Friday. The notion was discussed and adopted at the ANC…

Heavy early-morning rain on Monday did nothing to dampen the spirits of supporters of the frontrunners in the ANC leadership race, but journalists were left high and dry while…

The African National Congress’s Polokwane conference may deal with nominations for the party’s presidency late on Monday, according to a senior party official. The nomination…