The Democratic Alliance has called for the establishment of a parliamentary committee to investigate fresh allegations of state capture. The party has asked national assembly speaker Baleka Mbete
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A defiant President Jacob Zuma survived a bid by some members of the ANC’s top leadership to order his removal from office, according to three members of the ruling party’s national executive committee
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ruling ANC must keep the nation from becoming a “mafia state” and called for a judicial inquiry into allegations that the government has been unduly influenced by private interests
A powerful elite centred around President Jacob Zuma has systematically siphoned off state assets, and corruption is so pervasive that it threatens South Africa’s constitutional democracy, according to testimony given to a panel established by the nation’s main church organisation
President Jacob Zuma’s political future may hinge on a decision by the nation’s top court whether to force parliament to hold a secret vote on an opposition motion of no confidence in his leadership. While the constitutional court will
Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign to become South Africa’s next president has gone into overdrive. After months of playing coy about his aspirations to become the next leader of the ANC, the deputy president has started
The ANC is adopting a dangerous political approach used in failing states like Algeria, Zimbabwe and Venezuela. Its aim is to deflect attention from its policy failures and from numerous scandals surrounding President
South African opposition parties will fail in their campaign to remove Jacob Zuma as president and the government won’t be distracted by protests against his leadership, finance minister Malusi
South African opposition parties trying to get Jacob Zuma to resign are in a conundrum: if they bring down an unpopular president they may lose their best chance to win the next election. “I suspect opposition leaders are eternally
“Radical economic transformation” has become the South African government’s new mantra as it advocates giving the nation’s black majority a bigger stake in the economy 23 years after the end of white minority rule. What exactly it