Claims that talks between Zimbabwe’s opposition and negotiators for President Robert Mugabe had broken off were called into question on Tuesday.
The ANC’s Gwede Mantashe has defended his criticism of the Constitutional Court’s handling of its complaint against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
The ANC has shrugged off criticisms that recent remarks by its secretary general amounted to an attack on the independence of the judiciary.
Widespread voter intimidation marked Zimbabwe’s one-candidate presidential run-off on Friday.
President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday called a wave of deadly attacks on migrants an ”absolute disgrace” and said his government would take all measures to bring those responsible to justice. Meanwhile, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma said all people in South Africa should be tolerant of one another.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday urged President Thabo Mbeki and national conventional arms-control committee chairperson Sydney Mufamadi to stop the transfer of arms aboard a ship, the An Yue Jiang, in Durban harbour to Zimbabwe. The ship has been at anchor off the port of Durban since Monday.
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/ 22 February 2008
The South African National Editors’ Forum has slammed the decision of the new Forum of Black Journalists to exclude white journalists from their meeting in Sandton on Friday. African National Congress president Jacob Zuma was to deliver an off-the-record address at the inaugural imbizo.
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/ 9 December 2007
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said she will this week launch a last-minute bid to broker a truce between African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, a media report said on Sunday. Madikizela-Mandela said she was “deeply hurt” by the divisions in the ANC.
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/ 30 November 2007
Nationwide’s aircraft will remain grounded until the airline has fixed deficiencies in its maintenance section, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Friday. The CAA suspended approval for the airline’s aircraft maintenance organisation from midnight on Thursday, said CAA chief executive officer Zakes Myeza.
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/ 5 November 2007
United States television magnate Oprah Winfrey said on Monday that abuse charges at her all-girl academy in Johannesburg was one of the most devastating experiences in her life. ”This has been one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating, experiences of my life,” she said in a video news conference from Chicago.