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Regional leaders told the ANC NWC that the KZN provincial executive suspended its powers through an ‘irrational’ and ‘politically-motivated’ decision
Who becomes Zuma’s successor, and by how big a margin, will decide the fate of the ANC — and SA
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/ 13 November 2009
Home affairs has no idea how many illegal immigrants are in SA, with Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma saying providing the figure was ”difficult”.
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she would not tolerate officials who ”think they rule the world.”
An events visa will be piloted during the Confederations Cup, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday.
Corruption within the Home Affairs Department has rendered SA identity documents suspect internationally, a minister said on Monday.
Deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in by President Jacob Zuma at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria on Monday.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday that South Africa’s position in Africa goes far beyond mediating conflicts.
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/ 20 February 2009
South Africa is trying to persuade the ICC to delay its indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges.
SA’s membership of the UN Security Council was an historic milestone for the country, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.
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/ 28 November 2008
SAA is making plans to bring home seven of its crew members who were holed up in Mumbai’s Oberoi Hotel this week when it came under attack.
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/ 25 November 2008
South Africa’s second satellite is scheduled to be launched in March next year, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.
SADC will render the assistance and support needed in Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in Johannesburg on Thursday.
The people of Zimbabwe need to remove themselves from their current crisis situation, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will present a set of proposals to the Foreign Affairs Ministry on how the government can resolve Zimbabwe’s electoral crisis, the party said on Friday. The proposals include the possible suspension of Zimbabwe from the African Union, arms embargoes and the severing of diplomatic ties.
Efficient cross-border infrastructure is needed to facilitate trade and development in Africa, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday. She also said the private sector had a key role to play in the development of Africa by advancing the vision of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma called on Tuesday for eleventh-hour talks in Comoros as African Union troops prepared to support federal forces in a bid to take control of the rebel island of Anjouan. ”The federal government first wants the disputed elections dissolved,” she said.
Zimbabwe’s ambassador to South Africa on Monday criticised the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for claiming that President Thabo Mbeki had not been an ”honest broker”. He was briefing Parliament’s portfolio committee on foreign affairs ahead of his country’s ”harmonised” March 29 elections.
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/ 19 February 2008
Persian Gulf countries may enlist South African expertise in their plans to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister said on Tuesday. Mohamed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah was speaking after talks in Cape Town with his South African counterpart, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
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/ 18 February 2008
South Africa will set up a fully fledged high commission in New-Zealand’s capital, Wellington, by next year, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday. Dlamini-Zuma met her visiting New Zealand counterpart, Winston Peters, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday.
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/ 18 February 2008
The chance of a free and fair election in Zimbabwe is ”good” if all the agreements reached as part of the political facilitation process are implemented, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday. Zimbabwe is due to hold joint parliamentary and presidential elections on March 29.
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/ 18 February 2008
The South African government is still deciding whether to recognise Kosovo as an independent country, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday. It is expected that the decision would have to be taken soon as it would again be discussed by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 17 February 2008
Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress (ANC), husband to two wives, is planning to take a third, a media report said on Sunday. Zuma (65) married 33-year-old Nompumelelo Ntuli, the mother of two of his children, in early January.
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/ 19 December 2007
The African National Congress’s 52nd national conference got down on Wednesday to the nitty-gritty work of the commission that discusses the party’s policies in an atmosphere that one delegate described as the ”cessation of hostilities” over its new president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 18 December 2007
”Comrade Motlanthe, sabela uya-bizwa,”sang delegates at the conference on Sunday. ”Comrade Motlanthe, you are being called to service!” Kgalema Motlanthe has been portrayed by both camps as the indecisive, weak link in the ANC infighting.
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/ 16 December 2007
Ministers and aides in President Thabo Mbeki’s government were heckled by delegates on Sunday when the African National Congress opened a conference that could see Mbeki losing control over the party. Some of the delegates booed Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Essop Pahad, a top aide to Mbeki, as they arrived.
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/ 6 December 2007
Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has declined a nomination as African National Congress (ANC) chairperson but has accepted a nomination for deputy president. This emerged on Thursday when the ANC released its long-awaited consolidated list of nominations for its national executive committee.
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/ 16 November 2007
Reports that Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has entered the African National Congress (ANC) succession debate are devoid of truth, her spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Friday. The incorrect impression followed an interview she had with radio station Kaya FM on Thursday.
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/ 16 November 2007
South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she would not refuse a nomination to head the ruling African National Congress and the country. Asked if she would be available for the ANC’s top post, she said: ”ANC cadres never refuse when they are deployed.”