The temptation among some in opposition to ‘go it alone’ and abandon the GNU project runs the risk of a surgent populist coalition governing the country.

Among prominent ANC leaders expected to make a huge return is former ANC Women's League president Bathabile Dlamini, who ...

By 2007, when the SACP (and Cosatu) turned to Jacob Zuma to ‘save’ the Tripartite Alliance from Thabo Mbeki, and the party’s youth league called for the SACP to contest elections in its own right, ...

The politician's memoir doesn't really give us the inside feel of the momentous events in which he participated.

President Ramaphosa faces his busiest year yet, hosting critical events like the G20 Summit, the national dialogue, and the ...

To involve large sections of the population, especially the poorest of the poor, you have to take into account their location ...

The once-proud ANC opened a diminished 2025 celebration with the usual disarming honesty about the party’s declining plight.

Dr Niël Barnard, first negotiator for a democratic South Africa, has died at the age of 75. Barnard, a former spy boss and ...

Yogan Pillay has worked under every health minister since 1994, making him the ultimate healthcare insider. Now he’s an ...

“Some ask why is Cosatu still in the alliance with the ANC and the SACP? It is this alliance that led the struggle to defeat ...

The December 17, 2007 website of the UK newspaper, “The Guardian”, carried an article headed “Mbeki’s shock as ANC turns on him ... had reinstated the party’s Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, against a ...