Presidential succession
[Source: Daily Maverick by Marianne Thamm.]
A few days before the ANC’s watershed 54th elective conference at Nasrec in December 2017 where the President Jacob Zuma–supported ‘slate’ suffered a defeat by Cyril Ramaphosa with a slim 179-vote margin, there was a plot to funnel R45-million of public funds through SAPS Crime Intelligence to allegedly buy votes at the conference, claims IPID. Read more
[Source: Mail & Guardian – Editorial.]
Since the ANC’s national elective conference at Nasrec in December 2017, the party has made all the right noises about stamping out corruption, improving governance and doing right by the people who voted them into power. Read more
[Source: New Statesman America by Martin Plaut.]
like a stagecoach in an old Western, South Africa tottered on the edge of a precipice before being dragged back – but only just. Read more
[Source: Africa News by Daniel Mumbere.]
South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma has weighed in on the ongoing land reform debate, urging the government to quickly implement the policy of ‘expropriation of land without compensation’. Read more
[Source: The Guardian by Jason Burke.]
In a few months time, as winter begins to bite in the southern hemisphere, the African National Congress will face its biggest challenge since it took power in South Africa’s first free elections a quarter of a century ago. Read more