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 Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has stripped himself of the last possible leadership role in the ANC after losing the race for the top position to President Jacob Zuma. Zuma secured a second term as ANC leader yesterday alongside a new

The remains of 6 SA Air Force members killed in a recent plane crash in the Drakensberg will be handed over to their next-of-kin on Wednesday. The SA National Defence Force says this will happen at a customary ceremony at Waterkloof Air Force

 ACDP leader Kenneth Meshoe says the re-election of Jacob Zuma as ANC president could play into the hands of opposition parties in the 2014 election. He was reacting to Tuesday's announcement that Zuma had garnered nearly 3 times more votes

 A Western Cape policeman accused of raping a 65-year-old woman appeared in the Robertson Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate said the 37-year-old sergeant, based at the McGregor police station

Opposition political parties have commented on the outcome of the ANC's elective conference which restored Jacob Zuma to the party presidency. Geordin Hill-Lewis, the spokesperson for DA leader Helen Zille, says while personal congratulations to

Twitter was also abuzz with reaction to Jacob Zuma's re-election. Cosatus's Zwelinzima Vavi congratulated his alliance partners, while Aids activist Zackie Achmat tweeted that Zuma's re-election represents the victory of the corrupt business and

 The Bloemfontein magistrate's court has heard dramatic details of how a group of right-wingers plotted to kill ANC top brass. Four men, aged between 40 and 50, were arrested over the weekend and charged with high treason and terrorism

 There was rapturous applause and cheers when the ANC announced that Jacob Zuma had retained the position of party presidency. He beat off his sole challenger Kgalema Motlanthe by a large margin. The ANC's electoral commission says of the

 Twenty people were overcome by ammonia fumes in Montague Gardens in Cape Town on Monday afternoon. The city's disaster risk management centre said the incident happened when ammonia was released into the atmosphere in the Montague Gardens