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THE African National Congress (ANC) has retained the largest share of the vote in a key by-election in the Metsimaholo municipality in the Free State.
The vote was notable for being the first time in which the ANC and its South African Communist Party (SACP) alliance partner had gone head-to-head, with the communists winning 6.9 per cent.
With full results announced yesterday, the ANC came in first place with 29.1 per cent.
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
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
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS