Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times

Sibongakonke Shoba is an award-winning politics writer. He is a former deputy politics editor at Business Day newspaper and has been part of the Sunday Times politics team since January 2012.

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
LISTEN | 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

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
‘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.

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
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 ...

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
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 ...

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
Government has not withdrawn Swazi Tshabalala for top African bank job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 ...

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
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 ...

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
SIBONGAKONKE SHOBA | 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 ...

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
SIBONGAKONKE SHOBA | Whatever Ramaphosa claims, the people will reach their own ...

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 Politics editor: Sunday Times
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

Sibongakonke Shoba Politics editor: Sunday Times
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 ...