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/ 24 November 2006
When more than 1Â 200 Eastern Cape ANC branch delegates descend on Fort Hare University, Alice the heart and soul of the 94-year-old liberation movement will be up for grabs. The Eastern Cape ANC conference will have a major impact on the struggle over who will succeed Thabo Mbeki as party president and, ultimately, who will lead South Africa when Mbeki steps down in 2009.
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/ 17 November 2006
The arrest of Glenn Agliotti on suspicion of murdering mining magnate Brett Kebble has opened perhaps the biggest can of worms in South Africa’s criminal history. The arrest could have grave implications for police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who famously called Agliotti "my friend, finish and <i>klaar</i>".
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/ 10 November 2006
The "Selebi dossier", made public this week, is a fascinating chronicle of Paul O’Sullivan’s relentless pursuit of his own case against Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi that has taken him to the heart of a Scorpions probe of the country’s top cop.
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/ 9 November 2006
He was not so much the comrade, but the charou behind the comrade — so there was no Tony Yengeni-esque farewell for businessperson Schabir Shaik as he was driven from the Durban High Court to begin his 15-year jail sentence for corruption at Westville Correctional Facility.
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/ 6 November 2006
While President Thabo Mbeki will only give up his Union Buildings office in 2009, the next president will effectively be chosen in just over a year’s time at the ANC’s watershed elective conference in Polokwane, Limpopo. How will it happen? And how are the cards stacked? Zukile Majova and Mbuyisi Mgibisa investigated to bring you this exclusive report, taking you into the mechanics of an elective conference.
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/ 3 November 2006
A Scorpions subpoena obtained by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> outlines the full scope of project "Bad Guys" — the elite unit’s investigation into the allegedly criminal network surrounding Brett Kebble; the network’s role in or after Kebble’s murder; and police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s proximity to the network.
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/ 3 November 2006
There was nothing about the general mood in the dusty streets of Matlosana township near Klerksdorp in the North West province that indicated that the deputy presiÂdent of South Africa’s ruling party and the president of its youth wing were in town. The township, which, like the rest of South Africa, is facing a high rate of unemployment, crime and poverty, continued with life as normal.
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/ 27 October 2006
Did the contractor controversially paid R100-million by the Post Office to revamp its branches do private favours for executives of the paraÂstatal — including its then-CEO, Maanda Manyatshe? Manyatshe, now boss of cellphone giant MTN, denies a ”corrupt relationship” with the contractor, Vision Design House (VDH).
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/ 27 October 2006
The Scorpions task-team probing the contraband networks around slain businessman Brett Kebble has arrested Clinton Nassif, the shadowy businessman who provided security and investigation services for Kebble. Nassif allegedly ordering the premature removal from police custody of the car the mining magnate was driving when he was shot.
The empty Kingsmead Cricket Stadium in Durban spoke volumes. A meeting to mark the centenary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi’s pacifist movement had been successfully hijacked to embarrass President Thabo Mbeki. When the crowds heard that ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma was not going to address them, they booed and sang Zuma’s anthem, Umshini Wam, in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.