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/ 5 September 2005
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been effectively cleared by two commissioners of bias and wrongdoing over the Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka ”booing” incident — because it did not get the footage from the freelance cameraman. The commissioners acknowledged: ”This issue may require further probing.”
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/ 5 September 2005
The Democratic Alliance wants Parliament’s rules committee to discuss Speaker Baleka Mbete’s decision not to allow a question to be put to President Thabo Mbeki over the arms deal. The question related to Mbeki’s alleged meeting with arms-deal company Thomson-CSF.
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/ 5 September 2005
The riddle over South Africa’s proposed loan to bail Zimbabwe out of trouble with the International Monetary Fund has become a mirror of the personality of President Thabo Mbeki. The outward image is not what is going on within, or behind the scenes. There is little doubt Mbeki — now six years into his 10-year presidency — wants Africa to succeed.
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/ 2 September 2005
The ongoing Thabo Mbeki-Jacob Zuma ”saga” is an outlet for pent-up frustration and even hatred in South Africa’s ruling African National Congress as it is being released from ”a presidency of fear”, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon.
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s son, Tutu Buthelezi, is to stand against his father’s party in an upcoming municipal by-election in the Inkatha stronghold. Tutu Buthelezi announced this week that he had joined former Inkatha Freedom Party national chairperson Ziba Jiyane in his new National Democratic Convention party.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>President Thabo Mbeki has bluntly given his support to a Congress of South African Trade Union campaign to protect former deputy president Jacob Zuma, and pledged on Friday to unite "the entirely of our movement in a determined offensive" to defeat any conspiracy to discredit him.
Smaller parties are set to take the major battering when the two-week defection window opens next Wednesday for members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures. The parties most like to suffer defections are the United Democratic Movement, the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Independent Democrats.
PetroSA, the state oil and gas company, will ”have nothing to do” with Imvume Management in future and it has been ordered to pay back monies owed to it, says PetroSA chairperson Popo Molefe. The former North West premier faced tough questions from opposition MPs in the standing committee on public accounts on Wednesday morning.
The African Christian Democratic Party says that larger parties — in particular the ruling African National Congress — will benefit from the upcoming floor-crossing period for MPs and the nine provincial legislatures. The ACDP opposes floor-crossing because it undermines the will of the voter as expressed in an election.
South Africa’s rigid black economic empowerment (BEE) targets for equity, employment and management mean that United States firms will have to rearrange their entire business structure "simply to invest" in South Africa, says official opposition leader Tony Leon.