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WATCH | Dlamini-Zuma shoots down GNU, turns on MK Party
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma pours cold water on GNU and says MK Party unsuccessfully tried to recruit her
‘Stand for president!’ Dlamini-Zuma tells SA women
But the woman who almost beat Ramaphosa to the job, won’t say whether or not she will do it again.
PODCAST | 'I will take back ANC to honour my ancestors': Zuma
Former president Jacob Zuma has laid out details of an audacious plan to “take back my ANC', by uniting “black” parties under his MK Party banner and recapturing the leadership of the party, which he said had “deviated from our ancestors”.
In Cloud Zumaland
MKP leader Jacob Zuma sticks to his well-worn shibboleths on the stolen election, blacks not being free and other mumbo jumbo. Our political editor Sibongakonke Shoba spoke to him
Government has not withdrawn Swazi Tshabalala for top African bank job
Finance minister reaffirms backing for South Africa’s candidate for future president of the African Development Bank after confusion caused by Presidency statement.
EFF, MK Party no different from the DA — Mantashe
Gwede Mantashe is always geared up for a sparring match. The mineral and petroleum resources minister never misses an opportunity to challenge his interviewer, including responding questions with another question, making the interviewer the interviewee.
Ramaphosa, Steenhuisen walk a tightrope together
John Steenhuisen had a spring in his walk at the first parliamentary sitting at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Friday. He was beaming from ear to ear as everyone tried to get his attention, writes Sibongakonke Shoba.
Whatever Ramaphosa claims, the people will reach their own verdict
On Thursday Ramaphosa took to the podium armed with a catalogue of what he sees as his government’s successes in delivering on his promises, writes Sibongakonke Shoba.
ANC has to dig into distant past for bragging points
As Ramaphosa gears up for the elections, there is little for him to trumpet in his six-year incumbency, writes Sibongakonke Shoba
It’s a potholed road to coalition government
On the weekend in which the Springboks won their fourth Rugby World Cup, sending the entire country into a state of ecstasy, a group of South Africans travelled to the tranquillity of the Drakensberg for a heavy dialogue about the country’s immediate future, writes Sibongakonke Shoba.
























