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/ 21 January 2008
Where is Thabo Mbeki? This is the question many ANC members have been asking since he failed to attend the important first meeting of the party’s new national executive committee, as well as the party’s birthday celebrations in Atteridgeville last weekend. Speculation abounds. Despite secretary general Gwede Mantashe’s insistence that no sleep is being lost, the rank and file is not impressed.
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/ 21 January 2008
A group of senior ANC leaders aligned to party president Jacob Zuma is planning to approach President Thabo Mbeki in the next few weeks with a proposal to appoint ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as the country’s deputy president, the Mail & Guardian has established.
Disgraced police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi owes his dizzying rise after 1990 to his close personal bond with President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 11 January 2008
The appointment of ANC national chairperson Baleka Mbete to run the political committee in Parliament will be the first step in winning over ANC MPs to support the quest to defend ANC president Jacob Zuma. Mbete will replace Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota, who is the current chairperson of this powerful committee.
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/ 21 December 2007
The enclosure presents the most shade one can find in the sun-drenched Âvillage of Luangwa Boma in Zambia. Two Baobab trees Ânestle together, offering relief to the fishermen who come out of the river. Squatting around the base of the trees are a group of women counting money and swatting flies off the Âbundles of fish at their feet.
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/ 21 December 2007
The shift to the left is not a dramatic U-turn, it is a gradual process which is already under way, the SACP has said. Deputy general secretary of the party Jeremy Cronin said the ANC national conference saw a “deepening and consolidation” of the way in which delegates understand the need for changes in the South African economic landscape.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>The shift to the left is not a dramatic U-turn, it is a gradual process which is already under way, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Wednesday. The SACP is hoping that the change in ANC leadership with the election of Jacob Zuma as ANC president will provide an opportunity for changing policy perspectives to be accommodated.
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/ 19 December 2007
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An attempt to get the principle of gender parity elevated to the top structures of the ANC was trounced on Monday night, the Mail & Guardian has learned.
The policy, also known as the 50/50 principle, is a steep change in empowerment in the ANC and requires that every alternative position available for leadership be reserved for a female candidate.
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/ 19 December 2007
Skills shortages, touted as the critical issue hampering the effectiveness of government, are nowhere more obvious than at local government level, role players in the sector told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. Although local government has upped its game in the past few years and significant gains have been made by municipalities local government is still not operating at the expected level.
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/ 18 December 2007
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Secretary-general of the ANC Kgalema Motlanthe spared no punches when he presented his organisational report to the national conference this week. Mandy Rossouw looks at which provinces came out tops and which need to take a long hard look at themselves.