By Carol Paton 
Tomorrow SA will be able to read the usual ANC Letter from the President – available on its website and emailed to subscribers. This time however, the letter will have a different author: probably Jacob Zuma.
But unlike his predecessor Thabo Mbeki who quite often used the Letter to pursue his own political vendettas, [...]

By Thebe Mabanga 
Newly elected ANC president Jacob Zuma was defiant on the possibility of being charged by the National Prosecuting Authority; insisted that the ANC government has had success in resolving the Zimbabwe crisis and proved reticent on a range of key appointments. 
 Addressing the media for the first time as the party’s president, Zuma answered [...]

By Carol Paton 
Newly elected ANC President Jacob Zuma says he thinks that Trevor Manuel has done a good job but could not comment on his future because as ANC President he is not in the business of appointing or removing ministers.
“I think he has a track record that is very good in addressing issues of [...]

By Prakash Naidoo
It was a speech marked by a tone of conciliation and reassurance, intended from the beginning to signal the intent to heal and unify.
ANC President Jacob Zuma made his maiden speech to a warm and receptive  audience, calling his political adversary, President Thabo Mbeki “a comrade, friend and brother” and later in the [...]

By Prakash Naidoo 
The ANC is expected to ratify significant changes to its constitution today to accommodate a number of the policy decisions that have been adopted at its national conference this week. 
The two most important amendments deal with expanding the ANC’s national executive committee from 60 to 80 members, and the much debated issue of [...]

By Carol Paton
Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa has withdrawn his candidacy for the ANC’s national executive committee because “I decided that this is an NEC that I don’t want to be part of.” Shilowa said that it was not that he didn’t accept the legitimacy of the new NEC, but that certain events in the nomination process [...]

By Carol Paton 
Elections for the ANC national executive committee are underway with many predicting a clean sweep for the Zuma camp here as well.
If Zuma supporters vote as a block – as they did in the election for the Top 6 – none of SA’s economic ministers will make it onto the committee. Missing from [...]

Thebe Mabanga  
The ANC’s left wing alliance partners and the youth league basked in the victory of their man Jacob Zuma with a call for unity, but the youth league was unable to resist the temptation to mock one of the architects of President Thabo Mbeki’s failed campaign, Mluleki George. 
At its press briefing, the youth [...]

By Prakash Naidoo
The ANC’s Electoral Commission today dismissed rumours circulating at the conference since Monday that the owners of The Elexions Agency, which is handling the election of the new ANC leadership, has ties to Zuma adviser Mo Shaik and various other people and that it has been set up specifically to fix the election [...]

By Prakash Naidoo
After a night of jubilant celebration by Jacob Zuma’s supporters, party-weary delegates started the fourth day of the ANC’s national conference in various commissions that will formulate policy for the next five years.
However a much-anticipated press conference by the new ANC president was cancelled at the last moment after it emerged that the [...]