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/ 26 October 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>If Jacob Zuma wins his bid for the ANC presidency in December, here is what he is likely to do, say close aides, associates and analysts. First, he will draw up a protocol governing how he and President Thabo Mbeki will work: one running the party, the other the Presidency. While the protocol could iron out possible areas of conflict, the big hurdle to overcome will be the question of who runs the country?
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/ 26 October 2007
”It’s true that we are getting resistance from the executive. For instance, I served in one committee for six years and left it because I got tired of wasting my time with a minister who refused to listen to me.” With his head bent in despair chairperson of the environmental affairs portfolio committee Langa Zita recently told a panel of experts how African National Congress MPs struggled to get their voices heard by ministers.
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/ 26 October 2007
There are few surprises in Cosatu’s latest wish list for the ANC leadership. Its scorn for President Thabo Mbeki and his allies remains firm; only five Cabinet ministers and one of Mbeki’s top aides were included. For the first time Cosatu has released a list of 57 members for the ANC’s national executive committee.
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/ 25 October 2007
When Gender Links was started six years ago, everyone involved knew it was not going to be an overnight success. They knew mindsets on gender and how women are portrayed in the media are not altered quickly. They also understood that time is a crucial ingredient to the process of change. But their commitment to gender issues led to the establishment of one of South Africa’s premier gender organisations.
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/ 19 October 2007
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and his deputy managing editor, Jocelyn Maker, can sleep soundly until next week, at least, without the threat of arrest. The public prosecutor has not yet made up his mind whether the case of theft against them should go to court. Until he does, they will not be arrested.
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/ 19 October 2007
ANC MPs on Thursday rallied around embattled Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to protect her from the ”unfair treatment” that she has received at the hands of opposition parties and her other detractors. A motion, tabled in Parliament on Thursday afternoon, was shot down by the ANC because it was bent on “damaging her integrity and injuring her dignity”.
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/ 12 October 2007
One of the ANC’s historically powerful provinces, Gauteng, goes to Polokwane with diminished voting power after failed efforts to grow the party from where it was five years ago. Gauteng will be taking fewer delegates to the conference than it did in 2002, when the ANC held its elective conference in Stellenbosch.
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/ 12 October 2007
Billions of rands of public funds are floating around in government departments with no one knowing what the money is being spent on or whether it is being spent at all. This has been the outcome of another round of financial reports prepared by Auditor General Terence Nombembe, which form part of the annual reports that departments are obliged to submit to Parliament.
Presidential hopeful Tokyo Sexwale’s last-minute campaign in the succession race is gaining momentum and is said to be rattling both the Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma camps, which are preparing to barter with Sexwale. With the formal nomination process that opened this week, all three candidates are seeing shifts in their support. Mbeki’s support in the ANC has dwindled, say sources in the Sexwale camp.
Image is everything. This is the message that the Germans would like to convey with the visit of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In her first visit to South Africa since taking on the top job, Merkel will want to share the successes of the football World Cup hosted by her country last year with South Africans preparing for 2010.