Zuma says he can again be president because he did not serve two full terms

DA leader John Steenhuisen said he was worried that smaller and new political parties were going to create a distraction for voters.

Emboldened former president Jacob Zuma says, given a chance to return to the Union Buildings, he would do so without reservations.

Mbeki backed Ramaphosa in calling for a political solution to the Rwanda/DRC standoff in relation to the conflict

Focus policing on drug cartels and not the users, say newcomers to the political space, identifying the need for rehabilitation programmes

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Police minister Bheki Cele says South Africa’s prisons hold almost 14,000 foreigners and about 144,000 South Africans.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said it was in the face of callous indifference from the international community that the atrocities in Rwanda happened.

MK Party leader Jacob Zuma has been there, got the T-shirt and tore it to pieces; why is he fighting so hard to be an MP?

DA leader John Steenhuisen’s election campaign speech in Paarl at the weekend has been lambasted as fearmongering.

The UDM’s lifelong president, Bantu Holomisa, a veteran elections campaigner, reckons that, this time around, it’s the first time the ANC faces a real threat of being dethroned.

Electoral body argues it had long made public statements about Zuma’s ineligibility to stand as a candidate in the elections.

Analysts explain the changes to the voting system and peer into their crystal balls to predict possible outcomes

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DA leader John Steenhuisen has warned party supporters against complacency by not going out in large numbers to vote for the party in the May 29 elections.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile is spending the weekend in the Western Cape campaigning for votes ahead of the general elections in May.

Like most South African cities, Pietermaritzburg faces a multitude of challenges, from electricity cuts, water shortages, crime, ageing or crumbling infrastructure, and land grabs to unemployment.

Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape account for most of the voters in the country

The ANC’s top brass is deploying its deputy president to clean up provincial chair Sboniso Duma’s mess

EFF leader Julius Malema says MP Naledi Chirwa’s significant drop on the party’s parliament list was the democratic outcome of a selection of national candidates by the party’s leadership.

With less than two months to go before the May 29 elections, EFF leader Julius Malema says he is prepared to give the EFF vote to the ANC nationally if it doesn’t get 50%.

In trying to avoid possible jail time, former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has argued she will not be able to stand the bad prison conditions.

Former deputy president David Mabuza has refuted claims he has any links with the MK party, saying that he is “shocked and dismayed” at the allegations.