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/ 18 November 2005
There is a good Zulu word that captures why African National Congress Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s guilt or innocence on fraud charges is not an issue for his supporters. It is ukusizelana — ”empathy” or ”mutual help”. ”It’s like this,” says Mike Zuma, a guest at the Friends of the Jacob Zuma Trust cocktail party on the Durban beachfront last Friday evening.
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/ 4 November 2005
Massively increased levels of public investment lie at the heart of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s plans for accelerated and shared economic growth. But its ambitious 6% target for economic growth has been scaled back to 4,5%, at least for the next five years. The 6% growth mark is seen as being attainable only between 2010 and 2014.
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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
According to Rhodes University’s Public Service Accountability Monitor, the Eastern Cape social development department has spent R52-million over the past four years defending lawsuits by applicants demanding their social grants. The figure is contained in a damning report by the PSAM highlighting the department’s inability to fulfil one of its primary functions.
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/ 28 October 2005
E-mail messages allegedly exchanged between senior African National Congress leaders outline a plan to work the financial destruction of ANC general secretary Kgalema Motlanthe, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> established this week. The existence of the messages was confirmed at the weekend by Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, and they are reported to have been unlawfully obtained by the National Intelligence Agency.
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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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/ 21 October 2005
A number of African National Congress leaders in KwaZulu-Natal have warned that they will not support Premier S’bu Ndebele’s re-election at the 2007 provincial conference unless he shows decisive leadership over the Jacob Zuma saga. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to leaders from eight of the 11 ANC regions in the province.
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/ 17 October 2005
A year after Harrismith’s impoverished Intabazwe township erupted against poor service delivery, the community has vowed they will not vote, or will vote for opposition parties, in the upcoming local government elections. They insist that promises made by the African National Congress-led council have been dishonoured.
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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.
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/ 10 October 2005
Fat-cat salaries are crowding out socio-economic delivery in many of South Africa’s municipalities, official figures show. The salaries of municipal councillors and officials outstrip spending on services by nearly R10Â -billion — 10% of the total municipal budget. The figures must be seen against the backdrop of the municipal protests that have exploded across South Africa in the past six months.