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SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

JUSTICE MALALA: What can a crumbling ANC offer South Africans at the ballot box?

Paralysed by division, the ANC can't even agree on a candidate for Joburg

  • Justice Malala
4 min read
Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza. Picture: GCIS/KOPANO TLAPE
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

Real Politics: The centre is holding – and must endure

The Didiza vote shows the GNU's centre is holding firm

  • Zukile Majova
5 min read
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: ANTONIO MUCHAVE
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

NATASHA MARRIAN: ANC’s mayoral deadlock in Joburg worsens

ANC’s Joburg mayoral deadlock worsens as its factions clash

  • Natasha Marrian
4 min read
Dysfunction in Joburg.
ELECTIONS

NATASHA MARRIAN: What it takes to win Joburg

Joburg’s 2026 election could mark a historic DA breakthrough, but winning the city will depend on turnout, voter fragmentation and coalition arithmetic.

  • Natasha Marrian
5 min read