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/ 8 September 2008
Tito Mboweni was in the news this week because he was quitting to go fishing. This seems to have changed after chatting to the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe.
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/ 7 September 2008
The SACP in the Western Cape supports an electoral pact with the ANC, and considers contesting the elections in its own right.
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/ 7 September 2008
SACP, Cosatu to reach agreement with ANC to co-determine government policy.
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/ 6 September 2008
Delegates to the Greater KwaDukuza conference allegedly received preferential treatment, depending on who they supported.
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/ 5 September 2008
President Thabo Mbeki presided over a rather grey administration.The groupthink he encouraged has been disastrous for our country.
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/ 5 September 2008
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accused cellphone giant Vodacom of helping the ANC-controlled Western Cape government to illegally spy on her.
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/ 3 September 2008
Embattled ANC president Jacob Zuma has drawn support from a rather surprising quarter — the born-again National Party.
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/ 3 September 2008
The ultimate decision about dropping charges is thus not about morality but pragmatism, produced by the present balance of political forces.
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/ 2 September 2008
The ANC and the ANC Youth League have resolved to disagree in private, following accusations by the league that it was being attacked in public.
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/ 2 September 2008
The Khutsong dispute will be discussed at a meeting between the ANC NEC and the party’s Gauteng and North West structures on Tuesday.
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/ 2 September 2008
Pitched battles between different factions of the ANC in the Northern Cape delayed the start of the party’s provincial conference last week.
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/ 2 September 2008
”We must prevent a situation where our courts and judges are politicised by being involved in political fights,” says ANC eThekwini chair John Mchunu.
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/ 2 September 2008
In spite of all the hullabaloo and accusations from Zuma backers, their grounds for the call for a deal don’t hold much water.
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/ 1 September 2008
A top official from Cosatu has warned that the ANC will not hesitate to ”kill” the Scorpions if they continued to pursue ANC president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 1 September 2008
Two senior ANC officials in the Western Cape are being investigated for allegedly doctoring and then leaking a party audit.
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/ 1 September 2008
The independence of the judiciary is generally regarded as being an essential component of democratic government. There should be no doubt about this.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
The event in question was the launch of the Post-Polokwane Conversations, a series of "round table discussions" beginning in Durban.
The party’s 2009 election strategy begins in earnest this weekend and it will need to surmount numerous internal battles.
Supporters of embattled ANC president Jacob Zuma marched on 16 Durban police stations on Friday to demand that charges against him be dropped.
John Block was re-elected as the Northern Cape’s ANC leader on Friday at the party’s provincial conference at Moshaweng, north of Kuruman.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> strongly disagrees with Kgalema Motlanthe’s rather feeble reasons for wanting the Scorpions disbanded.
Leaders of the ANC are trying to fix its image ahead of the 2009 elections, but it is battling to speak with one voice, analysts say.
The Northern Cape African National Congress conference had still not started by noon on Wednesday.
Police arrested a man in Kuruman on Tuesday for unruly behaviour outside the Kgalagali District municipal offices where ANC leaders were meeting.
The African National Congress (ANC) provincial conference in the Northern Cape did not start on Tuesday morning as planned.
The election of David Mabuza as ANC chairperson in Mpumalanga two weekends ago has sparked fear and despondency among the province’s top civil servant
Consensus in the ruling tripartite alliance, the private sector and parts of the intelligentsia are building towards the need for a deal of some sort.
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday he had approached Jacob Zuma to intervene in the deteriorating relations between the two parties.
The election fodder was wheeled out for a photo-opportunity at the Inkatha Freedom Party’s offices in downtown Durban this week.
In one corner, ”members of the Hidden Hand” who moonlight as the ”demonic forces of the dark”. In the other, ”Mugabe and his evil warriors”.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s ascent will not bring a new era of ”openness”, said Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday.