With his popularity waning, ANC president Jacob Zuma faces a series of hurdles.
Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein on Friday called for an ”independent, unfettered” investigation into the controversial arms deal.
There was no need for apprehension once the term of the current South African government came to an end, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said in China.
The African National Congress’s Western Cape secretary, Mcebisi Skwatsha, was stabbed in the neck at an ANC meeting on Thursday evening.
Both leading candidates for the presidency of the ANC Women’s League seen as strong supporters of Jacob Zuma.
President Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, leader of the ruling African National Congress, have denied that they are enemies and that Mbeki will step down early.
A fresh court bid by ANC members this week challenging Free State party chairperson Ace Magashule and his executive has thrown a harsh light on infighting among provincial ANC chiefs.
When was the last time you heard from Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff, Northern Cape’s Dipuo Peters or even KwaZulu-Natal’s S’bu Ndebele? I reckon not lately. It may be true that some, such as Marshoff and Peters, have always had a low public profile anyway. But Shilowa and Ndebele?
Freedom of expression, says cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, should only be limited when exercising it would cause physical harm or death. He was speaking at a discussion themed Cartoonists: Where Do We Draw the Line?, hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand journalism department on Tuesday.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma sat quietly in the front row of the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, listening to his legal team challenge the validity of the warrants used to seize documents that could be used against him in his forthcoming corruption trial.
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There is no statute determining exactly what provisions should be in a search warrant, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday as African National Congress president Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thint began a last-ditch bid to prevent key documents from being used against them.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma arrived at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday amid a heavy security presence and the sound of camera shutters as photographers attempted to shoot pictures. A heavy police presence was visible around the court buildings while journalists packed the press gallery trying to get a view of Zuma.
The emergence of the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) indicates there are problems in the media, South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) CEO Tseliso Thipanyane said on Tuesday. ”What is going wrong in media rooms to lead to the establishment of the FBJ?” he asked at a discussion on how the media cover race and racism
The man accused of setting fire to the African National Congress Luthuli House headquarters last week will appear in court again on March 10. Magistrate Steff Bezuidenhout on Monday said the case would be postponed so that the man’s particulars could be verified.
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/ 28 February 2008
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Mauritian Attorney General Rama Valayden has formally objected to a request by African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to withhold information from investigators in South Africa, a media report said. The evidence relates to his impending fraud, corruption and money-laundering trial.
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/ 22 February 2008
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma is to deliver an off-the-record address at the inaugural imbizo of a forum exclusively for black journalists in Sandton on Friday. Chairperson Abbey Makoe said the Forum of Black Journalists was an association ”who would politically in the South African context be defined as of African descent, coloureds and Indians”.
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/ 14 February 2008
The African National Congress’s decision to disband the Scorpions is to be deplored.
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/ 24 January 2008
Why, in God’s name, do the Scorpions need to be dissolved into the South African Police Service?
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/ 12 January 2008
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Unity was the order of the day when African National Congress president Jacob Zuma delivered his January 8 statement at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday. Zuma told the crowd of thousands that the unity of the party was ”paramount”, and warned those who threatened it.
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/ 12 January 2008
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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.
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/ 7 December 2007
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Friday rejected allegations that it was favouring President Thabo Mbeki over his rival, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma, in the battle for succession in the ruling party. The SABC has come under fire from commentators following its decision to broadcast a two-hour interview with Mbeki.
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/ 6 December 2007
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A member of the African National Congress has launched a legal bid to postpone the party’s conference this month, citing divisions over its leadership and breaches of the Bill of Rights, local media said on Thursday. Lawyer and ANC member Votani Majola would seek an interdict at the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday.
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/ 4 December 2007
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In the fierce debate raging around the man tipped to become South Africa’s next president, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma, there are few neutrals. With less than a fortnight to go before the ruling party’s national conference in Polokwane, reports show a country split over the politician.
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/ 29 November 2007
It’s a done deal. All the signs are there that Jacob Zuma will lead the African National Congress.
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/ 10 September 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) had a ”lively” exchange of views with National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete on Monday in a meeting held to discuss her suspension of DA MP Mike Waters. The meeting was also aimed at discussing Mbete’s ruling as out of order a question, asked by Waters, about Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s theft conviction.
Claims of huge bribes, fevered meetings between leaders of political parties, angry letters to newspapers: yes, it’s floor-crossing season once more.
A M&G investigation into covert party funding has revealed how R11-million of public money was diverted to ANC coffers ahead of the 2004 elections.
Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]
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Gold smuggling suspect Paul Ekon has asked the ANC for the contents of a report allegedly warning party leaders to steer clear of him.
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/ 6 September 1996
Flamboyant multi-millionaire Paul Ekon has denied involvement in drug dealing and hit squads, reports Stefaans Brümmer.
After three weeks of negotiation and at least six meetings, the African National Congress, the National Party and the SABC have finally settled on the format of next Thursday’s televised presidential debate between Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk. They have squabbled over the smallest detail: the NP, for example, wanted the two leaders to […]
Thursday’s TV debate between South Africa’s two leading statesmen promises to be a psychological drama revealing much about how they are going to rule the country together.