Highlights from ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe’s statement and the Question and Answer session with the media.
The ANC has called former president Nelson Mandela’s assistant Zelda La Grange a “spoilt white person”, the Beeld newspaper reported on Monday
There is a low level of trust between South Africa’s business community and most sections of its Government. The Department of Health, however, is an outlier – an area where the public-private partnership has delivered good results, leading to mutual respect. The Department’s Director General Precious Matsoso visited the CNBC Africa Power Lunch studio today … Read more
An imbongi is the African version of the medieval court jester. Except that instead of occasionally poking fun, this clown dances and shouts praises about his employer, usually when the boss enters a gathering. The human equivalent of those accursed blue light convoys infecting South African cities. But sometimes imbongis can go to far. As did the Deputy Minister … Read more
By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – More than 220,000 members of South Africa’s NUMSA engineering and metalworkers union will down tools on July 1 after last-ditch wage talks to avert a strike failed, its leaders said on Sunday. Irvin Jim, Secretary General of South Africa’s largest union, said NUMSA members would also picket the headquarters of state … Read more
From SAPA Speculation over President Jacob Zuma’s health was a topic of conversation on Twitter on Tuesday evening after he spent a week resting from an exhausting election programme. Tuesday’s state-of-the-nation address was the president’s first public engagement since he was hospitalised last week. Many Twitter users commented on how Zuma’s voice sounded and his … Read more
You have to feel for Cyril Ramaphosa. Until Lonmin hosted the spectacular explosion of the festering sore that is mining labour relations, he seemed blissfully unaware of a nasty human trait called envy. Allowing his mind to drift to a thought that his time at the top was coming. The Presidency of South Africa. One day not too far away.