ANC elective conference 2022
Everything you need to know about the ruling party's national elective conference
Difficult five years ahead for ANC rogue elements ...
The ANC’s 55th national conference has resolved to keep the controversial step-aside rule that has caused severe ...
LISTEN | Cyril Ramaphosa officially closes the ANC’s national conference
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says the party needs to focus on ensuring resolutions taken at its 55th national ...
ANC to hold special NEC meeting
The newly elected ANC national executive committee led by president Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet for the first ...
Has ‘The Cat’ run out of his many lives?
The ANC is discussing David Mabuza's future as the country's deputy president after he was not elected as the party's ...
State must sharpen its instruments to confront racism, says David Makhura
The ANC has resolved it may need to have a look at its policies that deal with racism because white supremacy will not ...
LATEST NEWS
Ramaphosa calls for discipline as part 2 of ANC ...
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has cracked the whip, calling on party members to exercise discipline as the second part ...
WATCH | 'There is no betrayal in the ANC,' says Ramaphosa after being ...
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says he does not feel betrayed by some branches who dumped him at the party’s 55th ...
Time over for 'sleeping, old people': Mbalula demands youthful cabinet
Newly elected ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes a cabinet reshuffle is imminent after the party's national ...
Ramaphosa slams Magashule for ‘capturing’ ANC branches in Free State
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a swipe at the former Free State strongman Ace Magashule for allegedly having ...
LISTEN | 'Anarchists will be dealt with – the holiday is over': Mbalula
'Discipline is going to reign supreme,' says ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula.
Cabinet reshuffle imminent after more than a dozen ministers, deputies ...
A cabinet reshuffle by president Cyril Ramaphosa is imminent after well more than a dozen ministers and deputy ...
‘This is my last term’: Re-elected ANC chairperson Mantashe plans to ...
"In my mind, this will be my last term but I have energy to take this last term and retire gracefully," said Gwede ...
JONATHAN JANSEN | Oh how the mighty ANC has fallen
The national conference showed the party’s true face: power struggles are more important than service delivery
Limpopo premier Stan Mathabatha commits to stay put until end of term
Limpopo ANC chair Stan Mathabatha has vowed to stay put in his job as premier amid rumours of his imminent departure.
ANC national conference adjourns to next year
The meeting will reconvene to adopt policies in the first week of January.
RECORDED | New ANC leadership addresses elective conference before ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa and other senior ANC officials are addressing delegates and the media on Tuesday, day 5 of ...
PODCAST | ANC’s top 7 is neither a win for the party nor SA
Eusebius McKaiser talks to Sam Mkokeli and Sabelo Skiti about the new leadership
'The only change at the top will be the names' — Mzansi reacts to ANC top 7
Many people, including politicians, have reacted on social media to the new ly elected ANC top 7, with some expressing ...
WATCH | The winner is Cyril Ramaphosa
The new ANC deputy president is Paul Mashatile, Gwede Mantashe retains the party chairmanship, Fikile Mbalula is ...
WATCH | Cyril Ramaphosa reacts to winning ANC presidency for 2nd time
It was a tense few minutes for ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa as he left the stage to hear whether he'd retain his seat ...
LISTEN | Ramaphosa has already proved he cannot save the ANC from itself
Cyril Ramaphosa’s re-election as ANC president is a neutral indicator, according to political analyst and commentator ...
WATCH | Ramaphosa back for second term, Mkhize loses
The ANC's top 7 voting results will be announced on Monday at Nasrec, south of Johannesburg.
IN PICS | Delegates react to announcement of new ANC leaders
Many delegates celebrated the announcement of the new ANC top seven, while others' disappointment was obvious.
Electoral committee ‘used to purge people’: ...
Former women's league president and outgoing NEC member Bathabile Dlamini has accused the ANC electoral committee of ...
Mkhize gains ground with supporters claiming a dramatic upset will land ...
Lobbyists for Zweli Mkhize and Cyril Ramaphosa at the ongoing ANC Nasrec conference are each claiming victory as ...
WATCH | Mzwandile Masina drops out of race for ANC treasurer-general ...
Gauteng has thrown its weight behind former ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe for the position of treasurer general.
'The enemy of women is women': Sizophila Mkhize blames ANCWL for ...
ANC youth leader and PEC member Sizophila Mkhize has laid the blame for the slow progression of women in securing ...
Delegates cast their votes for ANC top seven leaders at Nasrec
Voting for the ANC top seven officials is under way at the party's 55th national conference taking place at Nasrec in ...
WATCH | 'Who said Ramaphosa can't be contested?': ...
Gauteng PEC member Lebogang Maile has defended a decision by a section of his province to rally behind Zweli Mkhize in ...
WATCH LIVE | Delegates cast their votes for new ANC top 7
ANC delegates are set to cast their votes for a new-look top seven, replacing the party's old top six, as the national ...
LISTEN | ANC will deal with party leaders if cash was dished out for votes ...
Outgoing ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe says anyone found to have tried to bribe delegates attending the 55th national ...
LISTEN | ANC didn’t ask to be exempt from load-shedding, says Mabe
A special load-shedding exemption “due to the presence of high security risk persons” at the ANC national conference ...
LISTEN | Load-shedding eases on Monday but exemption keeps lights on for ...
Eskom plans to reduce crippling countrywide load-shedding to stage 5 early on Monday, while a special exemption “due to ...
RECORDED | ANC national elective conference day 3 ...
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe is briefing the media on Sunday at the start of the third day of the party's national ...
LISTEN | It's voting day for the ANC — here is what you need to know
Sam Mkokeli, Business Day columnist and Arena Holdings contributor, outlines the outcomes of day 2 of the ANC elective ...
'We didn't decide to dump Ramaphosa for Mkhize': Limpopo ANC secretary
Limpopo ANC secretary Reuben Madadzhe says there was never a decision by the provincial leadership to dump Cyril ...
LISTEN | ANC top 7 nominees finalised as NDZ declines nomination
The ANC will by Monday announce its new "top seven" leadership which will run the governing party.
RECORDED | Nominations finalised at ANC elective conference
Voting for ANC leadership positions is expected to get under way on Sunday morning following a chaotic evening of ...
'An abuse of process': Cyril Ramaphosa bares legal teeth in battle against ...
High drama as some reject instructions to dump Ramaphosa for Mkhize
WILLIAM GUMEDE | The ANC is in for a hard landing for which it and nothing ...
Supporters, members and leaders of the ANC behave as if the governing party and those at its helm, in power since 1994, ...
'We have to change course urgently': ANC fears becoming a rural party
The ANC is worried it will be reduced to a “peri-urban and rural party” ahead of the 2024 national elections if it ...
MIKE SILUMA | A new dawn is upon us, and not the one Ramaphosa had in mind
SA is moving from the post-apartheid era to the post-ANC one, and we need a national dialogue on how to navigate it, ...
Guard your tags, delegates warned amid fears of voting shenanigans
Reports of a tag-snatching conspiracy swirl at the ANC elective conference.
MAKHUDU SEFARA | Living in the now will be the ANC’s greatest undoing
We now have a real opportunity to restart It shouldn’t matter whether the person is Mathabatha, Ndlovu or Venter. As ...
‘Every delegate was offered money’: ANC member lays bare what happened at ...
Despite attempts by the ANC’s electoral committee to curb the practice, party leaders appear to have dished out cash to ...
Tricky policy problems loom for ANC after leadership elections
Nationalisation of the Reserve Bank, the energy crisis, a basic income grant and the step aside rule are among issues ...
PATRICK BULGER | Mandela had a vision of what the NEC should look like — ...
Back in 1994, Madiba wanted an ANC NEC that comprised representatives of youth, labour, civic, women’s and other ...
ANC elective conference: Chronicles of a conference contested
The goings-on at the ANC elective conference in just one day underline that the party is almost over.
DD Mabuza officially out of ANC leadership
In a night of high drama and chaotic scenes, Deputy President David Mabuza is officially out of the top echelons of the ...
Moment of truth for Ramaphosa & Mkhize in battle for ANC presidency
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa finally locked horns with former health minister Zweli Mkhize during the ...
WATCH | Nominations and voting for top seven get under way at ANC elective ...
Delegates attending the ANC's 55th elective conference nominate and vote for the party's top seven office bearers at ...
ANC conference credentials adopted, nominations ...
The ANC national conference has adopted the credentials report, paving the way for nominations of the top seven ...
LISTEN | Delegates share their views on day 2 of ANC national conference
Delegates shared their views on nominations and party leadership structures on day 2 of the ANC’s 55th national ...
LISTEN | ANC members urged to be more disciplined amid heckling of the ...
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe has urged party delegates attending the conference where leaders will be elected to be "more ...
IN PICTURES | 'Change! Change! Change!'- Inside day 2 of the ANC elective ...
A group of delegates sang slogans opposing President Cyril Ramaphosa serving a second term as the leader of the ANC at ...
Zuma’s private prosecution of Ramaphosa irrelevant: ANC electoral committee
The ANC’s electoral committee says former president Jacob Zuma’s attempt to privately prosecute President Cyril ...
LISTEN | ANC conference: Understanding the ...
The ANC is limping into day 2 of its 55th national elective conference, having postponed the bulk of day 1's activities.
ANC CONFERENCE DAYS 2 & 3 WRAP | Mkhize and Ramaphosa backers both ...
Keeping you up to date with all the latest developments on day 2 of the ANC's 55th elective conference in Nasrec, south ...
PODCAST | Ramaphosa's political report embellishes reality
In this short audio analysis, TimesLIVE contributor and analyst Eusebius McKaiser summarises what President Cyril ...
ANC KZN chair reads the riot act to disruptive delegates from his province
ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson Sboniso Duma laid down the law to delegates from the province attending the ...
Will ANC delegates buy Cyril Ramaphosa's story or reject him?
President Cyril Ramaphosa had the last laugh, stamping his authority after a group of KwaZulu-Natal delegates attempted ...
LISTEN | Ramaphosa heckled as ANC conference gets ...
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa struggled to make himself heard above former president Jacob Zuma's supporters on Friday ...
WATCH | Rocky start for ANC conference as group tries to disrupt ...
A handful of ANC delegates, mostly from KwaZulu-Natal, disrupted President Cyril Ramaphosa's political report at the ...
WATCH | ANC elective conference delayed by late arrivals, registration ...
ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe says the conference will start when delegates are in the plenary hall.
LISTEN | Ace Magashule puts his disqualification in delegates' hands
Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has put his hopes in delegates at the party's national conference to ...
WATCH | Opening address at ANC's 55th national conference
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is tabling the party's political report as its 55th national elective conference finally ...
LISTEN | Defiant ANC MPs matter will be resolved ...
One of the incoming ANC leadership's first tasks will be to decide whether to discipline MPs who on Tuesday voted in ...
Keeping the ANC and SA on the correct path is my goal: Cyril Ramaphosa
The ANC conference starts on Friday to elect new leadership with President Cyril Ramaphosa contesting against former ...
Andile Lungisa appeals to ANC conference to review suspension
The ANC's Andile Lungisa has lodged an appeal regarding his September 7 suspension by its national disciplinary ...
ANC conference hit by three-hour delay
The start of the ANC’s national elective conference has been delayed due to technical glitches in registering delegates.
LISTEN | Ramaphosa rejects Zuma’s bid to add him to the list of accused in ...
Former president Jacob Zuma initiated a private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday.
Gauteng ANC 'firmly' behind Paul Mashatile
The ANC in Gauteng has expressed overwhelming support for deputy presidential hopeful Paul Mashatile.
PODCAST | Zweli Mkhize on ANC presidency, Digital Vibes and Cyril Ramaphosa
Mkhize says after engagements with ANC branches, all indications are that he has “huge support”.
WATCH | Pule Mabe on communication and ambition in quest for new role
The ANC spokesperson will vacate his position at the end of the year when the party elects its new top six
Bathabile Dlamini’s ANC NEC disqualification appeal denied
Former ANC Women's League president Bathabile Dlamini's appeal against her disqualification from running for the ...
WATCH | 'It's a difficult job': outgoing ANC treasurer-general Paul ...
ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile, who is vying for the position of ANC deputy president, has warned the incoming ...
WATCH | Mdumiseni Ntuli certain he’s incoming ...
ANC secretary-general hopeful Mdumiseni Ntuli is confident he’ll bag the position over candidates Fikile Mbalula and ...
ANC elective conference set to inject more than R257m into Gauteng
The Gauteng Tourism Authority estimates the ANC elective conference will inject more than R257m into the visitor ...
‘My criminal record was expunged’ — Tony Yengeni appeals to Motlanthe
Although Tony Yengeni is appealing his disqualification, he does not feature on the list of 200 nominated by ANC ...
Black Business Council urges ANC conference to tackle Eskom blackouts
The Black Business Council has asked the 55th national conference of the ANC, starting on Friday, to deal with ...
Zweli Mkhize says ANC's step-aside rule 'undermines authority of branches'
ANC presidential candidate Zweli Mkhize on Monday launched a scathing attack on the party's step-aside rule as well as ...
ANC elective conference set to inject more than ...
The Gauteng Tourism Authority estimates the ANC elective conference will inject more than R257m into the visitor ...
Zweli Mkhize upbeat ahead of crucial conference
ANC presidential hopeful Dr Zweli Mkhize has expressed optimism ahead of the ANC national conference this week.
Black Business Council urges ANC conference to tackle Eskom blackouts
The Black Business Council has asked the 55th national conference of the ANC, starting on Friday, to deal with ...
WATCH | I'll bring the ANC back to people, says Nomvula Mokonyane as she ...
ANC deputy secretary-general hopeful Nomvula Mokonyane says the party needs someone who can help reconnect it with the ...
Carl Niehaus expelled from ANC for Zuma arrest antics
The ANC national disciplinary committee has expelled former ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus after a disciplinary hearing ...
OPINION & ANALYSIS
EUSEBIUS MCKAISER | Let’s talk about the morning after the re-election of ...
Let's keep this simple and blunt. What will the ANC and our country look like the morning after President Cyril ...
MAKHUDU SEFARA | It's time to do the right thing, Mr President. Step down
While the expert report was commissioned by parliament, the terrain of this battle is the NEC meeting taking place on ...
JUSTICE MALALA | Don’t wait with bated breath for anything new from the ANC
Forget about the hot air coming out of the party’s elective conferences
PATRICK BULGER | State of Capture: Cyril Ramaphosa is a prisoner of the ANC
Like the hapless Pik Botha many years ago, the president is presented as the acceptable face of a notorious party that ...
LISTEN ARTICLES
PODCAST | A fish rots from the head and the ANC's NEC nominees are giving ...
The much-anticipated ANC national elective conference takes place next week at Nasrec in Johannesburg.
PODCAST | Phumulo Masualle on why Ramaphosa must go, ANC factions, NEC, ...
Remove the dark cloud over Mkhize so that we deal with facts, he says
PODCAST | Mashatile talks positions, SOEs, Phala Phala, former presidents
Paul Mashatile hosted the Sunday Times Politics Weekly team at his home to chat, rolling up his sleeves to be “hands on ...