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Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa during the nominations process at the ANC's national conference on 17 December 2017. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

2017 anc policy conference

It’s a wait & see game as talks between Zuma & Ramaphosa continue

By Graig-Lee Smith

While opposition parties and ANC alliance members have asked for a swift decision, senior African National Congress (ANC) members are trying to placate South...

  • FILE: Baleka Mbete during the nominations process at the ANC's national conference on 17 December 2017. Picture: Ihsaan Haffejee/EWN

    ANC announces nominations for party leadership

    After protracted delays, the ANC has announced which candidates will be vying for the party’s top positions.

    1703 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa with ANC MP Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on 7 September 2017 at the XIV World Forestry Congress. Picture: GCIS

    ANC leadership jostling heats up ahead of elective conference

    Eyewitness News takes a look at what will potentially play out over the next few days, now that the provincial parties have consolidated nominations from branches and made their preferred candidates official.

    1714 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane speaking in her capacity as the ANC's campaign head at the party's National General Council on 11 October 2015. Picture: EWN.

    Who is unity? - Mokonyane wants Mpumalanga's 'unity' candidate explained

    ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe on Monday said the party now has the task of converting the unity vote into an actual candidate

    1715 days ago
  • FILE: Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini. Picture: EWN

    Cosatu: ANC must eliminate any threats to elective conference

    The governing party has had to deal with legal challenges in provinces, including the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in recent months.

    1720 days ago
  • FILE: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma at a cadres assembly in Evaton. Picture: nkosazana.com

    Dlamini Zuma the leader the ANC needs?

    Eyewitness News takes a look at what a Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma victory could mean for South Africa.

    1723 days ago
  • FILE: ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa. Picture: EWN

    ANC extends deadline for candidate nominations again

    The ANC insists its reached the necessary threshold to continue with the elective conference next month.

    1729 days ago
  • FILE: President Jacob Zuma answers questions in the National Assembly on 2 November 2017. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    Mthembu: It’s us who got SA into this mess by electing Zuma

    ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu told Reuters that whoever the party chooses next month, the incoming leadership should tell Zuma to go to allow the ANC to clean up its act.

    1730 days ago
  • FILE: ANC stalwarts held a briefing about the consultative conference. Picture: Clement Manyathela/EWN

    Sanco asks ANC stalwarts to help keep party in power come 2019

    The organisation was giving its message of support at day two of the conference in Braamfontein today.

    1733 days ago
  • ANC presidential hopeful Lindiwe Sisulu speaks at the Radio 702 Town Hall. Picture: 702.

    Sisulu: Stalwarts conference will have no impact on what ANC does

    Lindiwe Sisulu has admitted that because the conference is not recognised by the ANC, it’s resolutions won’t have an impact on the party.

    1733 days ago
  •  Gwede Mantashe Secretary General of the African National Congress address the media during a press briefing at Luthuli House in Johannesburg. Picture: Ihsaan Haffejee/EWN

    Mantashe: ANC may intervene to expedite branch nomination process

    ANC branches are still lagging behind with their nominations despite Wednesday’s deadline.

    1736 days ago
  • FILE: ANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. Picture: Twitter/@DlaminiZuma

    'I'm not corrupt and I don't loot'

    Dlamini Zuma’s name has come up in claims of corruption with allegations contained in Jacques Pauw’s latest book 'The President’s Keepers'.

    1741 days ago
  • ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Free State ANC ready to hold its elective conference in November

    Free State ANC’s Thabo Mmeko says the national structures the reason they haven’t held a conference yet.

    1779 days ago
  • Late struggle icon Dullah Omar. Picture: www.ethicore.co.za.

    Dullah Omar’s family wants his name separated from ANC

    The family on Friday released a statement saying the ruling party should remove Omar’s name from its Cape Town metro region.

    1838 days ago
  • FILE: ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    ANC to report back on 4-day lekgotla

    After a four day national Lekgotla, the governing party’s leadership met for the first time after the national policy conference.

    1843 days ago
  • FILE: ANC KZN chairperson Sihle Zikalala. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN

    Sihle Zikalala: White monopoly capital in SA exists

    KwaZulu-Natal ANC chairperson Sihle Zikalala held an informal discussion with journalists in Johannesburg last night to discuss the provinces politics and the party in general.

    1849 days ago
  • FILE: Blade Nzimande at the SACP’s 14th National Congress in Boksburg. Picture: Twitter/@SACP1921

    Nzimande: ANC conference in December vital, likely to determine its future

    The SACP’s Blade Nzimande says the days of the ANC treating other alliance partners as junior must be over.

    1858 days ago
  • Gauteng Premier David Makhura addressing delegates at the 4th South African Communist Party Congress on 11 July 2017 in Boksburg. Picture: Twitter/@SACP1921.

    Makhura: ANC losing moral authority for tolerating crooks

    Gauteng Premier David Makhura told the SACP congress that radical economic transformation will not work without tackling corruption and state capture.

    1862 days ago
  • FILE: ANC stalwart Frank Chikane. Picture: Kgothatso Mogale/EWN

    ANC's Chikane excited about conversations at SACP congress

    ANC stalwart Frank Chikane says that the SACP has done well in highlighting the issues at hand and believes that the ANC policy conference lacked that kind of openness.

    1862 days ago
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