African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe in a report in The Star newspaper on Friday called upon newspaper editors to join the debate on setting up a media tribunal rather than act defensively.
Mantashe said the invitation is in ...
The African National Congress Youth League in the Eastern Cape confirmed yesterday that it would be convening a congress in the province despite there being an interdict prohibiting it from doing so.
The youth league in the Eastern Cape previously...
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Brett Kebble murder trial in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg is the fact that the accused, Glenn Agliotti, has not been charged with fraud relating to what appears to be a defence of assisted su...
Just when African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema believed he had an iron grip on the Limpopo province following the banishing of former youth league chairperson Lehlogonolo Masoga via NEC disciplinary channels, along comes the...
The undertaking by Justice Minister Jeff Radebe, in his address to the SA National Editors' Forum in Johannesburg on Saturday night, that the government would not treat the media in the way it was done during the apartheid years is unfortunately of l...
The South African government is faced with a major dilemma in the way that it approaches claims of xenophobia in South Africa. On the one hand they cannot be seen to be hysterical as this would only fan the flames created by panic merchants and those...
Moloko Moloto, writing for IOL, was reporting yesterday that the ANC in Limpopo was considering reconvening the disputed youth league provincial conference which would come as a political blow to ANCYL president Julius Malema.
The gist of the arti...
Professor Pierre de Vos, South Africa's leading authority -- in my opinion -- on constitutional law, has written a blog which is published in the Sowetan today and which calls into question the relationship between former police commissioner Jackie S...
Monday's Sowetan is reporting that Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale was chased out of a meeting by angry members of the ANC in the Waterberg region on Saturday.
Allegedly the basis for his being there was to convey a decision taken by the provincial...
In accordance with a formal complaint laid by Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard, the Independent Complaints Directorate will assess whether the SAPS acted improperly at the ANCYL conference in Limpopo.
The basis for the allegations bein...
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