ANC Conference

The ANC's steering committee has not announced the way forward regarding the missing 68 votes of delegates.

Senzo Mchunu’s supporters have called for a recount of votes, claiming that irregularities in the counting process cheated him of the position of secretary-general.

The hope was that in opening the 54th National Conference of the African National Congress, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma would rise to the occasion, seize the moment of his last address as party president with honesty and leave something worthy of history. For posterity to cherish

Rumours that President Jacob Zuma has instructed the South African National Defence Force to draw up plans for implementing a state of emergency may or may not be true. Nonetheless they are evidence of South Africa’s febrile political atmosphere