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/ 15 January 2003
The special adviser to Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Dr Mario Oriano-Ambrosini, said today that there was nothing inappropriate about his relationship with Cape Town millionaire businessman Cyril Kern.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has opened the door to an eleventh hour compromise with the African National Congress (ANC) to avoid forcing a provincial election in its powerbase of KwaZulu-Natal.
Six municipal by-elections are to be held in South Africa on January 22, four in African National Congress strongholds, one in an Inkatha Freedom Party stronghold and another in a more marginal seat vacated by a Democratic Alliance councillor.
The South African government has confirmed that it has received a request to assist in an investigation into alleged irregular funding by a South African citizen of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s election campaign.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has called its national council together tomorrow evening in Durban to discuss the issue of dissolving the KwaZulu Natal legislature in order to force an election in the province.
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/ 4 December 2002
Former Cape Town Mayor Gerald Morkel is expected to announce his resignation as provincial Democratic Alliance leader on Wednesday afternoon.
It has been a nine-month march for New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk from Nobody Location, Thakgalang Village, Limpopo, to the fluffy bed of cooperative government with the African National Congress.
South Africa’s splintered opposition is set for further fragmentation, with the Democratic Alliance facing wholesale bloodletting at municipal level. At the same time the African National Congress is largely insulated from the impact of defections because of the size of its municipal majorities.
The reintroduction of the old political game of musical chairs — put on hold since 1994 but reintroduced from Friday — is expected to hit the New National Party the hardest in the national Parliament. But it could have unpredictable ramifications for the Democratic Alliance.
Cape Town mayor produces hard evidence that controversial German billionaire did not pay his rent.