SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC yesterday slammed the main opposition party’s bid to dissolve parliament after not getting its way last month.
The ANC chief whip’s office accused the Democratic Alliance (DA) of wasting valuable time at the Cape Town parliament with its “frivolous” motion to call early elections.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane threw a tantrum after the eighth opposition no-confidence motion in President Jacob Zuma was defeated on August 8 – despite an unprecedented secret ballot that saw an estimated 25 ANC MPs rebel.
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says


