The ANC’s main battle for the 2004 election may not be against other parties, but against over apathy.
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/ 19 December 2003
Having outdone itself in the number of Cabinet posts given to women ministers, the African National Congress now has a real chance of showing that it is sincere about allowing women to take the lead in its provincial structures. The ANC says it aims to meet the objectives of adding fresh blood and balancing gender representation when appointing premiers.
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/ 11 December 2003
South African diplomats have quietly begun to acknowledge that after the Commonwealth decision to continue to suspend Zimbabwe from its ranks, and the country’s subsequent decision to pull out of the organisation, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is likely to continue to cling to power.
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/ 28 November 2003
Despite the efforts of South Africa and the Commonwealth Secretary General, Don McKinnon, the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe is likely to overshadow all other issues at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Abuja, Nigeria, next week.
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/ 21 November 2003
At the end of his testimony this week Maharaj told the Mail & Guardian that he had overwhelming grassroots support in the ANC.
Mac Maharaj tragically pawned his legacy as a leader of the struggle.
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/ 14 November 2003
National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka did not bother to attend the hearings investigating whether he was an apartheid spy this week. Well, whatever the reason, it was a good decision. A plethora of excuses is making the
commission’s work tougher.
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/ 9 November 2003
Few experiences have touched Zola Skweyiya as much as a visit to a remote village, Masoyi in Mpumalanga, where he found a whole community openly discriminating against three children who were suspected of being HIV-positive. But he believes that the battle to ease the hardships of the poor is being won.
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/ 7 November 2003
"In the private sector they have a slogan: ‘The customer is always right.’ In home affairs we have an unwritten slogan that the customer is always wrong." This was the observation of the new Director General of the Department of Home Affairs, Barry Gilder, who this week ignored the common practice among senior government managers of hiding problems.
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/ 24 October 2003
The Hefer Commission looks headed for the rocks in its mission to establish whether Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid government spy. The commission’s stiffest challenge is coming from state security agencies unwilling to share information with it.