After its traumatic birth the new political party needs care desperately. Many in the party are aware of this problem and are trying to correct it.
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/ 15 February 2009
Nic Dawes, Mandy Rossouw and Ilham Ravoot examine the deepening freeze in relations between South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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/ 11 February 2009
Provincial health budgets are in the red, and are putting Trevor Manuel under intense pressure to ride to the rescue in his budget today.
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/ 9 February 2009
It may or may not be Trevor Manuel’s last budget speech, but it will almost certainly be the most important and the most difficult.
Judge President John Hlophe has returned to
work, stirring controversy and speculation, write
Nic Dawes and Sello S Alcock.
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/ 26 January 2009
Bizarrely, ruling party MPs repeatedly suggested that, had Pikoli indulged in a little communist self-criticism, he might have kept his job.
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/ 23 January 2009
With the ANC’s electoral list-making process nearing finality, Jacob Zuma and his top officials must walk a fine line.
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/ 23 January 2009
The election manifesto launch this weekend of the Congress of the People will not be televised live by the SABC, the public broadcaster has told Cope.
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/ 18 January 2009
Plans to reform the legislature jolted members of the press gallery this week.
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/ 18 January 2009
Senior African National Congress policymakers are warming to the idea of major electoral reforms, the Mail & Guardian has been told.