DA reveals candidates for premiers, Parliament
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille announces premiership and parliamentary candidates ahead of national electionsMalema ‘opportunistic’ in deal with Buthelezi
National Freedom Party leader and Zululand mayor Zanele Magwaza-Msibi says Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema changes tunes ‘at a moment’s notice’
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McCarthyism rounds on Freedom Charter
Z Pallo Jordan
The Freedom Charter is no less valuable if it was, as Stephen Ellis claims, written by white communists
ANC dismisses DA’s planned jobs march as provocation
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille intends to lead 6,000 unemployed young people to African National Congress headquarters to demand 6-million ‘real jobs’
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Politics may be reason for removal of Madibeng mayor
The removal of mayor Poppy Magongwa has also been linked to her ‘unpopularity’ and the recommendations of an anticorruption report, writes Setumo Stone
Farm workers’ union dismisses general election
Farm workers’ unions, farming associations and IEC agree to promote voter registration but one union not in any hurry to endorse this year’s polls
Ramaphosa urges Gauteng vote drive
ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa warns supporters that Gauteng is ‘coveted prize for opposition parties’
Jacob Zuma ‘is ANC’s sole candidate for president’
Ruling party united behind incumbent leader Jacob Zuma, says party deputy secretary-general at Western Cape manifesto launch rally
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By ignoring the basics, Vavi is losing the battle in Cosatu
Natasha Marrian
Zwelinzima Vavi has always been wildly popular among rank-and-file workers but the past two years of his political career have read like a soap opera
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EDITORIAL: Strikes not really about wages
Amcu’s motivation is primarily political, which means even if those last-gasp discussions take place the parties will almost certainly be talking past each other
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Polygraphs of politicians could save us billions
Leon Louw
The simple, cheap and effective solution to the orgy of corruption is to subject politicians and officials to annual lie-detector tests
THE INSIDER: Who knew there were so many of them?
Some interesting names appear on the Independent Electoral Commission’s list of registered partiesHani resignation raises doubts about Agang SA
Mamphela Ramphele’s Agang SA seems to be headed for full-blown crisis following resignation of Chris Hani’s daughter, Vanessa, from the party
Deadly Brits water crisis claims head of ANC mayor
Mayor of North West’s Madibeng municipality axed following service delivery protests last week in which four people died
ANC acts swiftly in Mothutlung water crisis ahead of elections
Quick axing of three top officials in the Madibeng municipality is rare move for ruling party, writes Setumo Stone
Gauteng ANC wants Mboweni in Parliament
Former Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni may return to Parliament in this year’s general election
Mazibuko ‘has all the ingredients it takes to be a great leader’
Journalist Donwald Pressly praises Lindiwe Mazibuko at launch of his book on the DA parliamentary leader
ANC losing media dominance
ANC loses a third of media presence compared with year ahead of 2009 elections, and research firm says president’s reputation shows no signs of recovering
ANC gives itself five years to investigate minimum wage
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant says department will over next five years devise proposals to give effect to promise in African National Congress election manifesto
- Independent Democrats to cease to exist this year
- STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Parties trot out the same old jobs fantasy
- TONY LEON: DA faces ANC in a changed environment
- DAVE MARRS: Sadly there is no cure for windy politicians
- AUBREY MATSHIQI: Zuma has upper hand in policy struggle
- Zuma says ANC cannot co-govern with Cosatu
- Zuma pledges to create 6-million ‘job opportunities’
- ANTHONY BUTLER: Reassuring signs aside, challenges in SA are daunting
- NATASHA MARRIAN: Cosatu in Zuma era is more white-collar, less ambitious
- EDITORIAL: Now, class, repeat after me
- COPE formed to take government, says Lekota
- ANC members turn out in their thousands for manifesto launch
- Radical economic transformation at centre of ANC government policy
- SIPHO HLONGWANE: Two men were killed in Brits — for water
- ANDREW HAMMOND: Political language of elections spans the globe
- GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The DA’s Gauteng: celebrate good times, come on!
- DA seeks rethink on collective bargaining
- ANC supporters released on bail after EFF handover incident
- ‘Majority prevails’ on NDP, says Zuma ahead of manifesto launch
- Lekota to lead COPE into 2014 elections
- SIPHO HLONGWANE: Malema’s medium-term gambit and long-term risk
- ANC has not stopped tribalism — Mbeki
- DA to prioritise job creation during elections
- EDITORIAL: ANC manifesto will not scare — or thrill
- GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Will the ANC collapse financially before it does politically?
- Z PALLO JORDAN: SA’s struggle for democracy intertwined with ANC
- SIPHO HLONGWANE: Does the ANC have a control problem?
- ANC needs to make good on promises and programmes
- Z PALLO JORDAN: Struggle will not be forgotten come the election
- Agang denies allegations of internal crisis
- Godi praises the pragmatism of his African People’s Convention
- ANC ‘ready for provincial manifesto launch’
- Executive pay must be moderated — DA
- Race card may not help African National Congress win Western Cape
- Good-news manifesto bad news for African National Congress
- THICK END OF THE WEDGE: ANC to get a mighty fright
- DA rates Cabinet ministers, says Zuma ‘is bad for SA’
- Malema, Buthelezi to discuss election
- GAVIN KEETON: Mandela’s about-turn on nationalisation
- TWEET OF THE WEEK: The EFF and berets
- SIPHILE BUTHELEZI: Nkandla critics generate security myths
- Z PALLO JORDAN: Racial solidarity not cause of ANC success
- GARETH VAN ONSELEN: The COPE joke
- WATTY WATSON: Parliament’s role is to serve the people, not the ANC’s agenda
- EDITORIAL: Issue-based politics has finally arrived
- ANC says Western Cape education needs shake-up, calls for DA to be replaced
- Cosatu not ‘confused’ about voting for ANC
- ANC grapples with discipline challenge, says Pandor
- ANC to look at national minimum wage
- EFF courts Numsa over united workers’ front
- ANC-branded red berets go like hot cakes
- EFF claims ‘explosive’ growth but bemoans ‘unfair’ electoral rules
- ANC in Gauteng is not being dissolved, says Mashatile
- EDITORIAL: Parties’ funding should be open
- TWEET OF THE WEEK: ANC Voices
- JONNY STEINBERG: Leaders are reminded that power is borrowed
- Z PALLO JORDAN: SA basks in hard-earned glory of one long walk
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013
News and views on the death, and life, of former president Nelson Mandela, with tributes and photographs from around the world
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President Jacob Zuma was booed at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in Johannesburg:
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