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/ 23 December 2005
The African National Congress has retained all serving metro mayors on its local election candidate lists — despite earlier speculation that there could be wholesale changes. The provisional list was drawn up at the ANC’s national list conference on Wednesday last week.
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/ 9 December 2005
The African National Congress Youth League has become increasingly isolated in its defiant support for Jacob Zuma, after key party structures dumped him in the aftermath of his rape charge this week. The league said the rape charge alone, without a conviction, was insufficient to warrant a change in its stance.
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/ 9 December 2005
The political disabling of Jacob Zuma has again thrown open the presidential succession race — and a powerful group of African National Congress members close to President Thabo Mbeki are said to be throwing their support behind Mbhazima Shilowa, Premier of Gauteng, as their favoured candidate.
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/ 2 December 2005
The South African Communist Party (SACP) and Cosatu have been very outspoken in support of Zuma. How has this affected the alliance? The Mail & Guardian spoke to SACP leader Blade Nzimande about the impact of the Jacob Zuma affair on the SACP and its relations with the ANC.
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/ 28 November 2005
”I am tiring of technocratic talk. Joel Netshitenzhe’s most recent statement, that the government would not change its mind on the provinces it has assigned to cross-border municipalities because to give in to peoples’s demands would be a ‘perverse incentive’, is really so much hogwash,” writes Rapule Tabane.
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/ 25 November 2005
The Young Communist League is considering suspending its deputy national secretary, Mazibuko Jara, for questioning the league’s support for Jacob Zuma. It is understood that the league met recently to discuss the suspension of Jara over a paper he has written titled <i>What Colour Is Our Flag? Red or JZ?</i>. The paper has been leaked to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
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/ 25 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma is determined to fight on, despite agreeing to the issuing of a public ANC statement that projected his cause as a lost one. Zuma’s aides insist the statement issued by the ANC after its national executive committee (NEC) meeting last weekend was a "public relations exercise" to project the image of a unified movement.
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/ 18 November 2005
Some African National Congress structures, including the ANC Youth League, may call for a special conference to tackle the ”war” between President Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma at the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting this weekend. The call could be made if the conflict appears intractable.
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/ 18 November 2005
The African National Congress faces the headache of placating thousands of frustrated would-be councillors eliminated from the nominations process as the party’s list process nears completion. The bitter power scramble has seen all-out attempts by incumbents to hold on to their council seats, while outsiders seek to dislodge serving councillors.
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/ 11 November 2005
African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, have failed to resolve their acrimonious dispute — posing a major problem for the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC). The NEC meets next weekend to consider a report by secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe on Mbeki and Zuma’s progress in settling their differences, which have deeply split the ANC.