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President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Michele Spatari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Lord, like the ANC, works in mysterious ways

The Renewables’ prayer for divine intervention appears to be paying off for Cyril Ramaphosa

Eastern Cape ANC general-secretary Oscar Mabuyane on the side-lines of the ANC’s 55th national policy conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre in July 2017. (Photo by Gallo Images /The Times/Masi Losi)

Mabuyane win will boost Ramaphosa’s chance

Outgoing Eastern Cape chairperson Oscar Mabuyane is ready to lead the province for another term. The ANC provincial heavyweight and one of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s loyal…

Premier Zamani Saul. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Masi Losi)

Mayor and manager of Umsobomvu local municipality tag team in giving jobs to pals

An investigation into the Northern Cape municipality has uncovered multiple issues of alleged fraud, including nepotism and unauthorised salary hikes

Order: Suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule’s fightback is underway. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
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Magashule’s forces want early conference to elect new national executive

RET faction says the current NEC has become a liability

The general public is most often unaware of certain manipulations that enable some schools to claim their 100% pass rate records and the prestige that comes along with it. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Class of 2020 produces ‘quality passes’ — Motshekga

The minister of basic education released the 2020 matric results on Monday, announcing that the overall pass rate has declined from 2019

Mac Jack passed away on Wednesday, Northern Cape Premier Zamani Saul confirmed. (Image: Northern Cape department of education via Facebook)

Northern Cape education MEC Mac Jack dies

The ‘seasoned cadre of the movement’ and active public servant died in hospital on Wednesday, Premier Zamani Saul said in a statement.

‘Preparing for war’: De Aar in the Northern Cape  has seen single-digit cases of Covid-19 for several weeks.  (Madelene Cronjé)

Northern Cape worried about rise in cases

Premier Zamani Saul blames the doubling of Covid-19 case numbers a week after level three restrictions were implemented – on people travelling from neighbouring provinces

(John McCann/M&G)

Provinces’ plans to fix education

Preoccupied with pass rates, buzzwords and early development, our premiers are neglecting some basic challenges

Game-changer: Northern Cape Premier Zamani Saul has vowed to cut costs and serve the people of his province, which would be to the benefit of the ANC in the next elections. (Emile Hendriks/Gallo/Foto24)

Saul’s bold last stand for the ANC

The fate of the ANC is on the line as the next generation of party leaders fight to ‘reinvent the future’ in contested provinces

ANC chairperson in Northern Cape, Zamani Saul, was also confident that the party would not lose it’s support base in the province. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

DA is failing to take Northern Cape

Status quo in the Cape as the ANC looks set to keep its majority

Eastern Cape premier Phumulo Masualle says the province’s most precious resources are its people and natural resources – which includes the land

What lies behind the ANC scrapping the two deputies proposal

‘The issue is not about the structure, but the personalities, people who get selected into those positions’

Backers: ANC Northern Cape secretary Zamani Saul

Zamani Saul elected Northern Cape chairperson after shock withdrawal by Sylvia Lucas

Premier Sylvia Lucas and her allies declined all nominations for the top position.

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

​Claims that delegations were manipulated heard at ANC Northern Cape conference

The stage has been set for a proxy battle between Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas and the party’s secretary, Zamani Saul, for the position of chair

Backers: ANC Northern Cape secretary Zamani Saul

Northern Cape ANC proxy war turns ugly

The premier’s Cabinet reshuffle is a political manoeuvre, says her opponent

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.