ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says the party will roar ahead into 2012, following recent media reports of a possible "implosion" in the party.
The ANC Youth League’s attack on the ruling party’s NDC is the first step towards exposing President Jacob Zuma as the "worst leader" of the ANC.
Suspended ANC Youth League President Julius Malema is leading the league’s national executive committee meeting in Benoni.
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/ 28 October 2011
The ANCYL’s economic freedom march through Johannesburg provoked furious debate in the ANC-led alliance.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has begun leading around 2 000 marchers on their long walk to economic freedom (and, ultimately, Pretoria).
Gwede Mantashe resolved some of the tension between the ANC and its youth league by rubber-stamping the proposed march — and setting some conditions.
The ANC has said any pronouncements by its youth league about who it is backing in the party’s leadership succession race are "void of impact".
The ANCYL has publicly said it will back Kgalema Motlanthe and Fikile Mbalula to replace Zuma and Mantashe as ANC president and secretary-general.
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/ 10 October 2011
Gwede Mantashe is to lead a high-level delegation to China in a visit the ANC insists has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama visa debacle.
High-ranking ANC officials visited China this week in what could be seen as the party’s unreserved support for Beijing.
President Zuma’s supporters are moving to consolidate his power in Luthuli House and in strategic provinces ahead of the party’s elective conference.
The ANC provincial conference in Limpopo will go ahead despite attempts by Gwede Mantashe to delay it until next year.
Some comrades appear determined to sow divisions in the African National Congress, said secretary-general Gwede Mantashe in a media report.
A day before Parliament is due to debate the controversial secrecy Bill, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has signalled it may be shelved.
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/ 16 September 2011
Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing is revealing the broad fault lines in the ANC’s leadership.
There is nothing wrong with cadre deployment, as it gives black people operational exposure, says ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
And start singing of counter-revolutionary judges.
Provincial leaders say they warned Luthuli House against pursuing disciplinary processes against Malema, and will not discipline their members.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing has been moved to an undisclosed location due to pending legal action against the ANC.
Charges against Julius Malema that could see him removed as youth league president have set off an intense battle for control of the ANC.
After violent protests by Julius Malema’s supporters outside Luthuli House, the ANC says it is moving his disciplinary hearing out of Jo’burg’s CBD.
The fallout between the ANC and the ANC Youth League has raised fears in the league that there are plans to dissolve it.
With Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing a day away, Gwede Mantashe has hinted the youth league leader might be headed into hostile territory.
The Freedom Front Plus has called on President Jacob Zuma to submit more nominations for the appointment of a new chief justice.
The ANC Youth League was not up for discussion at a special national executive committee meeting in Pretoria, spokesperson Jackson Mthembu says.
The ANC has confirmed it has charged ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema with misconduct for "sowing divisions within the ranks" of the party.
The NUM has blamed a lack of leadership by Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi for its row with Numsa.
The ANCYL has withdrawn its commitment to the establishment of a "Botswana Command Team" after comments last month.
The ANC says it postponed a meeting with the ANC Youth League’s new leaders as some issues that needed addressing could lead to disciplinary action.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said he agreed with Swazi activists that their state should unban political parties, media reports have said.
Calls to nationalise mines face new challenges from ministers who warn the scheme won’t fight poverty and fear the debate is scaring investors.
The ANC is not deciding whether to implement nationalisation, but rather how to do so, Cosatu has told business leaders at a debate on the topic.