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/ 2 November 2008
The Shikota movement on Saturday declared its intention to launch a new political party that will rival the ANC during the 2009 elections.
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/ 1 November 2008
The national convention gets under way at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday morning, with about 4 000 delegates expected to attend.
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/ 31 October 2008
”Shikota” has been selling the meetings as a platform to find ways of ensuring that democracy is protected.
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/ 31 October 2008
It began in a bakery. Mbhazima Shilowa tells
Mandy Rossouw and Mmanaledi Mataboge about his kickstart plans for a new party.
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/ 28 October 2008
With the unexpected expulsion of former president Thabo Mbeki, the ANC was caught without a transitional plan in place.
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/ 21 October 2008
Wednesday October 8 was probably the worst day the United Democratic Movement could have chosen to launch its campaign.
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/ 19 October 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma used his imbizo in Gauteng last week to brief ANC branches on the party’s reaction to the breakaway faction.
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/ 17 October 2008
Seven provinces could be split by the fracturing of the ANC. The three Capes — Western, Eastern and Northern — are ripe to split.
Energetic on the economy but soft on corruption. That’s the general assessment of the nine-year premiership of Mbhazima Shilowa.
In a judgement hailed as a landmark by the Pan South African Language Board (Pansalb), the Pretoria High Court has ordered the Department of Labour’s Compensation Commissioner to change its policy of communicating only in English. The court found the department and its commissioner in breach of the Pansalb Act and the Constitution. The ruling has signalled to government departments that multilingualism must become a reality.