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/ 28 October 2005
African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki believes his deputy, Jacob Zuma, will exhaust himself politically before the crucial 2007 ANC congress, and plans to weaken him by constantly beating an anti-corruption drum. Senior party sources said this was the core of Mbeki’s counter-strategy in the vicious battle over the presidential succession.
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/ 28 October 2005
The government’s comprehensive HIV/Aids treatment programme was launched 18 months ago and a proper system for monitoring and evaluating the roll-out is still not in place. Delays in installing the system account for a large chunk of the R39-million underspend by the Department of Health’s HIV/Aids cluster this year, revealed by the mini-budget.
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/ 24 October 2005
The mayor of Bloemfontein’s Mangaung council, Papi Mokoena, was still in office on Thursday, defiantly ignoring an African National Congress order to step down. Mokoena; the Mangaung council speaker Zongezile Zumane; city manager Mojalefa Matlole and other officials have been charged in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court with corruption after a Scorpions’ investigation.
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/ 21 October 2005
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma did just enough this week to comply formally with his party-imposed ceasefire agreement with President Thabo Mbeki — while signalling his intention to rally the whole country behind his campaign for the presidency.
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/ 17 October 2005
”Tell me exactly what difference there is between the Vaal in 1994 and the Vaal in 2005,” challenged a resident sitting on a street corner in Small Farms, Evaton. This old township was visited by President Thabo Mbeki three years ago. He pledged to turn its fortunes around with a new strategy called the Evaton Renewal Project.
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/ 14 October 2005
Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s populist grandstanding outside the court in Durban this week has angered President Thabo Mbeki and prompted a stony Cabinet statement. The fight with his deputy has weakened Mbeki, and the burning of a T-shirt bearing his image outside the court by his own party’s supporters is likely to put him on the offensive.
The uneasy truce between African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, will come under renewed strain this week, when thousands are set to march in support of Zuma during his court appearance. Zuma will be making a routine court appearance on Tuesday at the Durban Magistrate’s Court, where a trial date is likely to be set.
When President Thabo Mbeki visits the Vaal region next week, he will find the area in a state of collapse, with politicians turning on each other, Iscor having shed 20Â 000 jobs and residents threatening a repeat of the 1984 Lekoa/Vaal uprising against their councillors.
Either Democratic Alliance deputy leader Joe Seremane is a new South African who refuses to acknowledge race, or else he is an archetypical victim of apartheid crying out for sessions on black consciousness. Seremane projects himself as one completely exhausted by the politics of race.
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/ 16 September 2005
The African National Congress’s equal gender representation policy for the upcoming local government elections is expected to spark a scramble for positions as male councillors lose their jobs. The ANC decided at its national general council in June on a 50/50 quota of men and women representatives for the local government elections and all future polls.