How not to win votes: Listen to Mazibuko’s tantrum, a major ANC headache
Faith Mazibuko raged and screamed at staff instructing them to ‘make it happen’ and flout rules to ‘impress’ ANC voters.
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Stuck with hands in the cookie jar – Elders open letter to ANC patriots
#ANClist trended on Twitter when it came to light that the ANC included several tainted politicians from the Zuma era on its list for Parliament.
Ramaphosa sticks to foreign allies as if Berlin Wall was still up – Maimane
The hallmarks of South Africa’s foreign policy must be a deep commitment to human rights, democracy and free trade.
Anti-graft politician Makhosi Khoza: ‘Why I’m leaving OUTA’
Makhosi Khoza’s resignation letter from OUTA is frank. She says she wants to expose ANC leaders, who are ‘hiding their crimes’.
Amplats gives land to communities amid expropriation push
Anglo American Platinum is giving hundreds of hectares of land to communities living in a South African area that’s rich with the ore as the nation’s ruling party seeks to introduce laws that make it easier to expropriate land without paying for it.
🔒 The Editor’s Desk: Behind the ANC’s shocking electoral list
Election Day is getting closer and closer. As South Africans prepare to go to the polls, the ANC has released a controversial electoral list.
ANC defends tarnished politicians in its election list
The vital question is; will Cyril Ramaphosa rely on the tedious criminal justice system to deal with the Mokonyane’s (No 10), Dlamini’s (No 14), Gigaba’s, (No 23) and Zwane’s (No 75) of his party, or will he clean house first?
Last chance to register to vote abroad – but is anyone listening?
Given everything South Africans had to go through to become enfranchised, it’s weird the possibility of a low voter turnout is even on the table.
Marianne Thamm shines spotlight on ANC war over Zuma’s rogue, shadow state
Today, there is a war being waged within the ANC as the corrupted turn on their own, as Marianne Thamm writes, for the Daily Maverick.
Corruption is embedded in black elite circles, warns SA politics expert
Corruption in South Africa isn’t simply a matter of bad morals or weak law enforcement. It’s embedded in processes of class formation – specifically, the formation of new black elites.