It was a great revivalist meeting for South Africa's resurgent left-wing activists. Some 1,300 SACP delegates gathered in Port Elizabeth on 11-14 July to hear speaker after speaker...

Which national officials were elected or re-elected at the South African Communist Party's National Conference on 11-14 July?

The detention of sacked intelligence chief General Fernando Garcia Miala on 13 July points to deepening rivalries within Angola's security services. Miala was sacked in February 2006 but...

The bids are out for Thabo Mbeki's services when his term as national president expires in mid-2009, regardless of who runs the governing African National Congress.

It's been a good week for President Robert Mugabe in Ghana at the African Union summit. Away from the economic and political meltdown back home, he played elder...

Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa have joined the presidential succession race but they face suspicion from several senior African National Congress officials who want the party to keep...

Cyril Ramaphosa's personal fortune is listed as 500 million rand (US$72 mn), but informal estimates put it at around R2 billion.

Tokyo Sexwale is Chairman of Mvelaphanda Holdings, a diversified investment company, formed in 1998. With the backing of Nelson Mandela, Sexwale had persuaded the Ruperts, an Afrikaner business...

He came to power in 2005 with a reputation as a nationalist bruiser with hardline views and a dubious past of Marxist policies and human rights abuses. Since...

The death of First Lady Ethel Mutharika on 28 May and the immediate proroguing of parliament led to an eerie calm: political foes briefly spoke to each other...