President Kgalema Motlanthe will not be easily influenced by the ANC’s leftist allies to make policy changes.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
ANC members’ criticism of the party amounted to notice of their resignation, its national executive committee said on Thursday.
The presidency’s announcement last week of Cabinet resignations was made to collapse markets, said ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe.
Richmond’s former mayor recalls the town’s
low-grade war in the early 1990s with Niren Tolsi.
Two strikingly different speeches — one saying goodbye, and the other saying hello. Two moods and two different styles.
The ANC leadership in Gauteng will nominate three candidates to succeed Mbhazima Shilowa as premier on Wednesday.
An ageing Nelson Mandela’s voluntary departure from the presidency in 1999 was a great moment.
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/ 30 September 2008
The African National Congress disapproves of outgoing Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s ”unbecoming behaviour”.
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/ 30 September 2008
SA’s finance minister said he expected more officials to resign in the aftermath of president Thabo Mbeki’s removal, but played down talk of a split.
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/ 29 September 2008
Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa has no plans to be part of a rumoured new political party, his spokesperson said on Monday.
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/ 29 September 2008
One of the things that former President Thabo Mbeki got right during his term was his relationship with and role on the African continent.
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/ 29 September 2008
It is difficult, when punched in the guts, to take a deep breath, although air is what you most fervently desire.
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/ 28 September 2008
ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete says disgruntled party members who plan to start their own movement are wasting their energy.
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/ 28 September 2008
The ANC and opposition DA are neck and neck among urban South Africans ahead of an election due next year, according to a survey.
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/ 28 September 2008
Zuma has confirmed that it was Motlanthe’s beard, and his ability to stroke it in a reassuring manner, that won him the coveted position.
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/ 28 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma lived up to his promise of a more inclusive ANC last weekend, allowing majority opinion on President Thabo Mbeki’s future.
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/ 27 September 2008
The decision by the ANC to recall President Thabo Mbeki represents the downfall of the most hubristic executive in contemporary South Africa.
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/ 26 September 2008
Almost a quarter of black people polled in a survey this week support the formation of a breakaway party from the ANC, research company TNS says.
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/ 26 September 2008
South Africa’s new President Kgalema Motlanthe won praise on Friday for quickly forming a government after a week of political turbulence.
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/ 26 September 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe was first to arrive, parking his Audi and slipping into the empty chamber for his last hours outside the presidential bubble.
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/ 26 September 2008
South Africa’s new president reappointed Trevor Manuel as Finance Minister on Thursday, reassuring investors worried about major policy change.
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/ 26 September 2008
With the mediator’s future uncertain, Zimbabwe’s ground becomes even shakier for the MDC, Zanu‑PF and the ANC
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/ 26 September 2008
Two of the ministers who resigned from Thabo Mbeki’s Cabinet this week spoke to the Mail & Guardian about why they resigned.
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/ 26 September 2008
Will the new president, Kgalema Motlanthe, come under pressure from Luthuli House to lean on the NPA not to appeal?
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/ 26 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma will spend the months ahead engaging ANC structures in an attempt to head off what seems to be an internal rebellion.
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/ 26 September 2008
Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 25 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma will oppose former president Thabo Mbeki’s application to join an appeal against the Pietermaritzburg High Court judgement.
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/ 25 September 2008
Deputy ANC leader Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as president on Thursday to replace Thabo Mbeki, who resigned amid a political crisis.
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/ 25 September 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe took office on Thursday as South Africa’s president and stressed he would keep to the policies of his predecessor Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 25 September 2008
Supporters of Jacob Zuma have taken the top five positions in the leadership of the ANC in the Western Cape.
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/ 25 September 2008
The ANC) decision to recall president Thabo Mbeki was unjust, outgoing Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad said on Wednesday.