South Africa’s decision to stall plans championed by President Jacob Zuma to build nuclear plants has exposed his waning authority. News of the delay came on Tuesday when the department of energy said additional atomic power won’t come on stream
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The courts are becoming the main theatre of political battles in South Africa as feuding for power and access to state funds in Africa’s most industrialised economy intensifies. Opposition parties scored a resounding victory over President
When President Jacob Zuma retires, he will write a tell-all book about his tenure as the president of the country, he said on Friday. Zuma was speaking at a cadres forum in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu
President Jacob Zuma on Friday told more than 3 000 ANC supporters at a cadres forum in Pietermaritzburg that he was no thief. “You can spread lies as big as Durban. I don’t care,” Zuma told the supporters
Should South Africa avoid having its credit rating cut to junk in the next two weeks, it could just be staving off the inevitable. More than half of 12 economists surveyed by Bloomberg said S&P
A political firestorm over an aborted attempt to charge finance minister Pravin Gordhan with fraud has ignited a power struggle between the head of a special police unit that carried out the investigation and the
President Jacob Zuma has declined to answer written questions from MPs around the findings in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report. In parliamentary replies released on Monday, Zuma gave a
Retired public protector Thuli Madonsela should step back from commenting on the state capture report as she has no further role to play in the process, the presidency said on Friday. Madonsela’s continuing public statements
President Jacob Zuma can now have his day in court, Democratic Alliance federal chairman James Selfe has said. Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority’s application for leave to appeal the court’s decision that he should face
The ruling ANC may lose control of three of South Africa’s main cities including the capital, Pretoria, and the key economic hub, Johannesburg, in 3 August municipal elections, according to a new poll. In Johannesburg, 31% of respondents said