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NIA boss in abuse claim

The African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League is to discuss claims that the new National Intelligence Agency (NIA) boss, Manala Manzini, allegedly abused his wife. A senior…

‘How Selebi shielded Agliotti’

Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi allegedly tipped off his friend, Glenn Agliotti, about a British drugs probe involving him. The allegation, in a statement by former…

Jackie Selebi hits back

President Thabo Mbeki’s attack on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the fight-back campaign by Jackie Selebi are threatening to derail the Scorpions’ investigation of…

MK vets mobilise for Zuma

The Spear of the Nation — Umkhonto weSizwe — is emerging as a potent weapon in the battle for the hearts and minds of delegates to the ANC’s national conference in December. And…

ANC dark horses on the gallop

Recent events and political blunders by the three leading African National Congress (ANC) presidential candidates suggest the race is still wide open. Outsiders such as Cyril…

Crosstitutes divide opposition, add nothing

Further fragmentation of the opposition is inevitable with more than 10 new political parties about to be unveiled over the next 15 days of the annual floor-crossing window.…

Cosatu and others criticise Mbeki

Since the news of her firing on Wednesday night went public, many voices, including the ANC Women’s League in the Northern Cape, Cosatu, the SACP, the Treatment Action Campaign,…

Agliotti and the Cuban ‘drug lord’

The Mail & Guardian has identified a notorious international fugitive as part of Glenn Agliotti’s former circle of intimates — adding a new twist to the probe of Agliotti’s…

Who is Nelson Yester-Garrido?

The story of Cuban fugitive Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido has all the elements of a spy thriller, including spies, submarines, fast cars, Russian mobsters, arrests, escapes and a…

‘Browse Mole’ a plot – Cosatu

Trade union federation Cosatu believes the “Special Browse Mole Consolidated Report”, implicating Jacob Zuma in a plot to overthrow President Thabo Mbeki, was engineered by…

Selebi and the stolen cars

For a commissioner of police, Jackie Selebi has a rather unfortunate history of association with stolen cars. As early as 1998, when he had just been appointed director general…

Deputy president’s poison scares

ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma’s security personnel were forced to take additional precautionary measures last year after rumours originated that he would be poisoned, the Mail…

An oil-for-Mann deal?

Suspected coup plotter Simon Mann’s fate hangs in the balance as a Zimbabwean court deliberates whether or not to comply with a request from Equatorial Guinea to extradite him to…

KwaZulu-Natal rebels kowtow to Mbeki

African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma’s chief lieutenants in KwaZulu-Natal — who had vowed to take on the party’s national leadership over its ”clumsy”…

No ‘rooftop diplomacy’ for SA

Although Zimbabwe is undergoing turbulent times not seen since the bloody 2002 presidential elections, South Africa and other regional states have responded in muted tones at a…

Motlanthe rides anti-Mbeki wave

Could African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe be the next president of the ANC? He is also in pole position to benefit from the confusion in the party, with…

ANC Youth League in crisis

A confidential internal report has painted a grim picture of disarray in the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, with seven of its provincial structures collapsing or…

What Tokyo said to Zuma

Businessman Tokyo Sexwale has declined to respond to information that he met with ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma to ask him for his assistance in elbowing out Cyril Ramaphosa…

Why Mbeki wants a third term

Whoever wants to be the next president of the African National Congress will probably have to go through president Thabo Mbeki, who has been asked by the party’s most influential…

New arms-deal pressure on Mbeki

New arms-deal pressure on Mbeki

Details of the British Serious Fraud Office investigation of BAE Systems published in the Mail & Guardian last week have placed both the British and South African governments…