“A puny struggling person.” “A shrunken talkative joke.” Oh and a “loud-mouthed Gucci revolutionary.”

Wel gedaan.

EFF leader Julius Malema has weighed in on the ANC succession debate ahead of the ruling party’s 54th national elective conference in December.

Supporting Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane to become South Africa’s Public Protector was a terrible mistake, EFF leader Julius Malema has said.

Donald Trump will preside over a new American reality as it takes shape. How can we understand it?

He walked right into that one.

The problem for Jacob Zuma’s political theology is that far too many members of South Africa’s ruling ANC have been experiencing a dramatic loss of faith in a party they see as no longer righteous.

Sjoe.

The Gauteng Liquor Board on Wednesday said it had not granted permission to alcohol-selling venues planning to extend their trading hours to cater for the ANC’s 105th anniversary this weekend.

Margaret Thatcher wooed the South African government with promises of a “Marshall Plan for southern Africa” and helped “save” the independence of Namibia, according to newly released papers.

This hasn’t exactly been a year of profound political moves from our government, and some opposition politicians haven’t done any better either.

The killing of two IFP leaders over the weekend was senseless and brutal, party spokesperson on community safety and liaison Blessed Gwala said on Tuesday.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is available to take on the position of president of the ANC in 2017 should he garner enough support to do so.

ANC NEC member Tony Yengeni says the party needs to learn from the example of Cuba to stop comrades “turning on each other” for positions.

An unruly mess of a continent governed by mad men and military? Not entirely. Africa has some of the most impressively educated leaders going. Including a certain Zimbabwean…

As the political circus goes on and on, it’s high time this country had its own answer to Armando Iannucci’s genius satire, which lampooned the British political class a decade ago.

Gwede Mantashe has had just about enough.

The Donald gets his very own Dr. Seuss-style rhymes.

In a surprising turnaround, the ruling party has decided that all of its senior members and leaders will undergo random audits, including members deployed to SOEs like the ABC.

It may be small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, but even now – nearly 800 years after it was lost to sight in what is now South Africa – the Golden Rhinoceros of Mapungubwe has powerful symbolism.

Mayor Herman Mashaba made ambitious promises in his first inaugural council address on Tuesday, vowing to cut unemployment in the city by 6%, or resign.

Some people claim that the ANC has the ability to self-correct. Nevertheless, the issue is not whether it has the ability to self-correct or not, but whether it has a leadership that can self-correct.

Many white South Africans will be forced to leave the country under the current government’s policies, former president FW de Klerk said.

Violent protests, pre-election killings, and the selection of the new public protector will be in the spotlight in Parliament this week.

Police are investigating the death of the DA’s Hannes Baaitjies, who was murdered just hours before he was to due to be sworn in and form a coalition government in the Kgatelopele Municipality.