South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address on Sunday as the African National Congress marked its 111th year, prioritizing the country’s energy crisis and economic challenges in his speech at Mangaung, Free State. Ramaphosa, re-elected as ANC leader in December despite being the subject of recent corruption investigations,…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
South Africans weighed in Tuesday on the alleged comments of President Donald Trump of the United States, whose remarks about African nations have faced scrutiny before but now include the late Nelson Mandela. This time they’ve come up again through a new book written by former Trump attorney and disgraced…
The African National Congress (ANC) celebrated in the streets on Sunday after pulling in 57.5 percent of the support in last week’s legislative election, down from previous years but still enough to protect the ANC’s long-standing majority. President Cyril Ramaphosa led the celebrations outside ANC headquarters in Johannesburg, promising that…
The African National Congress (ANC) was pulling in 57.7 percent of the support in South Africa’s legislative election, as the country’s electoral commission neared the end of vote-counting on Friday night. The ANC’s lead comes with 96 percent of the vote counted by 8 p.m., as the commission wraps up…
With just five days to go before South Africa’s legislative elections, the main opposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) made the rounds in Johannesburg with a novel way to send its message ahead of a final campaign rally on Saturday. The DA paid for a digital billboard and beamed its campaign…
South Africa is one step closer to implementing controversial land reforms through expropriation, after a majority in its parliament on Tuesday voted to adopt a recommendations report on amending the country’s constitution. “The National Assembly has agreed that section 25 of the Constitution be amended to make expropriation of land…
South Africa is one step closer to implementing controversial land reforms through expropriation, after a key committee announced Thursday that it has adopted a recommendations report on amending the country’s constitution. The Joint Constitutional Review Committee (JCRC) said the African National Congress, the Economic Freedom Fighters and the National Freedom…
It was only Wednesday that President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking to South Africa’s National Assembly, answered lawmakers’ questions about land reform and distribution. He spoke of the need to heal the historical wounds of land dispossession familiar to South Africans of all races, and again confirmed that land expropriation – when…
South Africans mourned on Monday the loss of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the apartheid-era leader of the country’s struggle for justice and former wife of the late Nelson Mandela. Madikizela-Mandela, 81, died at a Johannesburg hospital where she had been treated over the last year for chronic illness, the family said in…
South Africa’s African National Congress is following a decision-making process on the future of President Jacob Zuma, but has not reached a conclusion to force his removal, the party secretary said at a press briefing in Johannesburg on Monday. Ace Magashule confirmed that the matter was discussed during the ANC’s…
Reports from South Africa say that President Jacob Zuma may at last be forced out by his own African National Congress party, whose National Executive Committee (NEC) met in Tshwane over the weekend. The NEC plans a 3 p.m. media briefing Monday in Johannesburg to discuss results of the meeting….
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA), the country’s lead opposition party, welcomed the news that President Jacob Zuma will appoint a long-delayed commission of inquiry into government corruption allegations and Zuma’s ties to the wealthy and well-connected Gupta family. Yet DA leader Mmusi Maimane warned that the party will not allow…
South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa has been named president of the African National Congress, after edging out Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in voting results released Monday. He replaces embattled President Jacob Zuma in the ANC leadership role, a move that takes Ramaphosa, now serving as deputy president, one step closer in the run-up…
South African President Jacob Zuma survived yet another no-confidence vote on Tuesday, but the final tally showed just how divided the country’s parliament – and his own party – have become. Zuma, facing the eighth attempt to remove him and this time with a secret ballot, saw 198 votes cast…
South African authorities confirmed Friday that Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former chairperson of the African Union, is currently under police protection and has been the target of threats made against her safety. “Dlamini-Zuma continues to receive protection from the Presidential Protection Unit (PPU) of the South African Police Service,” the agency…