President Jacob Zuma’s public approval rating has reached an all-time low and most members of his ruling ANC want him to resign, according to an opinion poll released two days after he survived a second bid to oust him
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President Jacob Zuma has reasserted his control over the ANC as a renewed revolt by some of the party’s most senior leaders fizzled out. While some members of the ANC’s national executive committee
After months of attacks by opposition parties, labour unions and the courts, President Jacob Zuma now appears to be on a collision course with a more dangerous adversary: his own ruling ANC. ANC secretary-general
The newly reinstated head of South Africa’s power utility has been accused of attempting to influence a former minister, reversed plans to close power plants that his predecessor claimed weren’t needed, and set the country’s ruling party
The ANC has told President Jacob Zuma’s government that it should rescind a decision to reappoint Brian Molefe as CEO of state power utility Eskom, party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said. ANC officials told the government of their
A week after President Jacob Zuma appeared to have weathered calls to resign, former leaders of the ANC are ratcheting up pressure on him to quit after his shock cabinet purge prompted two ratings agencies to downgrade the
President Jacob Zuma survived calls to resign by members of the ruling party following his decision to fire his finance…
Three of the top six officials of South Africa’s ruling party told President Jacob Zuma that they opposed his plan to fire finance minister Pravin Gordhan, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Zuma told the ANC leaders
The election of the next leader of the ANC looks set to be a two-horse race. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former chairwoman of the African Union Commission, has an early edge in the battle to take over the helm of the party from her
A succession of scandals implicating President Jacob Zuma are catching up with him, with calls for his removal spreading to his cabinet and the upper echelons of the ANC. While a bid to oust Zuma at a meeting of the ANC’s 110-member