Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
AFRICAN National Congress branch delegates have completed their provincial general council (PGC) meetings to nominate candidates for ANC president and five other leading positions and the forecast is cloudy.
While current ANC deputy president, multimillionaire businessman and former trade union leader Cyril Ramaphosa received 1,861 branch nominations against his leading rival Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's 1,309, their contest remains on a knife edge.
Ramaphosa was backed by five provinces — Gauteng, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Limpopo — while Dlamini-Zuma has majority support in North West, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, the latter two provinces which will send the largest delegate numbers.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS


