Those who want to challenge the ANC Youth League leader’s legitimacy at the league’s conference must first win a two-thirds majority.
ANC deputy president Kgalema Molanthe that Julius Malema’s remarks would be discussed at the ANC’s national working committee meeting next week.
ANC Youth League President Julius Malema defends his recent statement at a Youth Day rally, and says he was just misunderstood.
Over 50 vehicle dealerships across the country have shut up shop since the beginning of the year because of plunging sales, according to industry.
”After having collected the money from [Charles] Modise, I gave it to the general secretary of the SACP [Nzimande]. Why I did not take it to the bank is again part of the information contained in the affidavit that I have given to the police,” says Willie Madisha who spoke to the Mail & Guardian‘s Matuma Letsoalo about the disputed R500 000 donation to the SACP.
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Of the Cosatu respondents, 64% believed Cosatu should stay in the alliance, while 18% said the federation should go it alone.
The Department of Labour this week moved to resolve a falling-out between a major labour union and one of the government’s skills development agencies. The Food and Allied Workers’ Union has announced its decision to withdraw seven of its members from the Sector Education and Training Authority for Secondary Agriculture board.
Irreconcilable differences between South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana and his director general, Advocate Rams Ramashia, led to Ramashia’s sudden resignation this week — seven months earlier than the expiry of his five-year contract, senior officials within the department told the Mail & Guardian Online on Thursday.
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Bantu Holomisa’s United Democratic Party and the New National Party, led by Marthinus van Schalkwyk, appeared to be the big losers as the final counting for the 2004 polls drew closer on Thursday night. By 9.30pm on Thursday the UDM stood at 6,96% in its Eastern Cape stronghold, not even half of the 13,6% it got in 1999.
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has appealed to all South African employers to respect the constitutional rights of workers by allowing them to go and cast their vote on Wednesday April 14, a public holiday. "This holiday was declared specifically to allow South Africans to exercise their right to vote," he said.