No image available
/ 17 January 2008
The ANC elected its new 80-member national executive committee (NEC) at December’s Polokwane conference. The Mail & Guardian opened the ruling party’s closet and scary skeletons came tumbling out, including those of seven criminals elected to the party’s second-highest decision-making structure.
No image available
/ 16 January 2008
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke will answer his critics in the African National Congress (ANC) in a statement to be issued on Thursday. The ANC’s national working committee has accused Moseneke of showing disdain for delegates to its national conference in December last year in remarks made at his recent 60th birthday party.
No image available
/ 16 January 2008
Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo stumbled into the Australian Open third round on Wednesday, admitting she still lacks the confidence that took her to the top of the rankings. The 2006 Melbourne Park champion led 5-1 in the second set but she allowed Russian Yaroslava Shvedova back into the match before sealing a 6-4 7-6 victory.
No image available
/ 15 January 2008
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Tuesday called on Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke to apologise for remarks he made about the party at his birthday celebrations. This comes shortly after an ANC statement saying that Moseneke’s comments showed disdain for delegates at the ANC national conference in December.
No image available
/ 13 January 2008
In the run-up to the ANC’s national conference at Polokwane, analysts and journalists had a field day, predicting that the movement was on the verge of a major showdown that might even result in a split. This gloomy picture was informed by what became known as the succession debate.
No image available
/ 13 January 2008
Indonesia’s former president Suharto, who ruled the country for more than three decades, is in a ”very critical condition” after almost all his organ functions failed, his doctor told a news conference on Sunday. Mardjo Soebiandono, chief of the medical team treating the 86-year-old at a Jakarta hospital, said there was only a 50-50 chance that he could survive.
No image available
/ 12 January 2008
![]()
New African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma will make his first keynote speech on Saturday, since taking over the party leadership from President Thabo Mbeki. His speech will form part of celebrations for the 96th anniversary of the party. The anniversary rally will take place at the Super Stadium in Atteridgeville, Pretoria.
No image available
/ 11 January 2008
In his first weekly online newsletter to African National Congress (ANC) members, Jacob Zuma, the new party leader, insisted on Friday that there were no fundamental policy differences among any members or leaders of the ANC. ”The vibrant debate that is sometimes misconstrued as division is merely differences of opinion,” he wrote.
No image available
/ 11 January 2008
The deepest divisions in the African National Congress were driven not by ideology, but by greed and lust for power, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Friday. Writing in her first online newsletter of the year, she said that given the richness of the spoils on offer, it was not surprising that bitter rivalries had developed between factions.
No image available
/ 11 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) needs to get back to the business of government, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday. He said politicians might all be talking in hushed tones about competing centres of power, but most South Africans ”are fretting about rising food prices and high interest rates”.