South Africa is fixated on the future of President Jacob Zuma. Steven Friedman explains that this isn’t the case within the governing ANC.
On Tuesday night, the party mistakenly sent notes about its NWC meeting
An edited extract from South Africa’s Corporatised Liberation — A critical analysis of the ANC in power (Jacana) by Dale T McKinley.
The president is fighting for power. And it’s not just against his deputy for the future leadership of the ANC.
The party knows it is facing a tough election battle in 2019 and it needs to regain its revolutionary image
Party members have been told to shut up but even Zuma and Mantashe are getting in on the issue.
The ANC cannot yet disentangle its ideals and its promises from the internal realpolitik of its leadership battles, such as the clash looming now.
One faction argues that Jacob Zuma must quit and the other is intent on electing a successor who will cover for him.
Despite pockets of resistance, Jacob Zuma is staying put, judging by NEC members’ guarded comments.
With the ICC exit, Jacob Zuma is hell-bent on destroying his party’s international justice record.
Coalitions should mean that the skills and expertise of a broad spectrum of people, regardless of political affiliation, will be called upon.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is under attack from all sides, including from those who once vehemently supported the party.
According to President Jacob Zuma, the ANC is “working hard to change the lives" of people … It just takes time – "like growing maize".
Election tsar Nomvula Mokonyane says the governing party has the trust and support of the grassroots – despite President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla scandal.
There is a mounting groundswell of anti-Zuma sentiment within the party that may just be the tipping point to drive the president out.
There is a mounting groundswell of anti-Zuma sentiment within the party that may just be the tipping point to drive the president out.
An ANC renaissance hinges on the power struggle between President Jacob Zuma and the Pravin Gordhan-Gwede Mantashe-led faction of the ANC.
Zuma inherited a divided ANC from Mbeki, but the party heading to the council is now terminally ill.
We boycotted and protested against apartheid and with our votes we have returned the ANC to power since 1994. We didn’t do that to be oppressed.
The ANC’s final candidate list confirms the end of the Thabo Mbeki era, with several former ministers and party officials snubbed.
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/ 25 January 2009
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/ 19 December 2008
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/ 15 December 2008
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/ 13 December 2008
The results were made more humiliating for the ANC by the fact that the breakaway Congress of the People won 10 wards in its debut electoral test.
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/ 11 December 2008
Where did the ANCYL get the power and audacity to attack Motlanthe, the judiciary and so much more with impunity?
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/ 8 December 2008
ANC believes there will be further resignations by senior members in the weeks ahead. Cope has been staggering the defections to maximise publicity.
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/ 7 December 2008
Cope has focused its resources on the Western Cape where it is contesting 27 of 41 by-elections taking place nationally.
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/ 5 December 2008
‘No worse there is none," was the anguished cry of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins — and it is an apt description of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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/ 29 November 2008
Task teams and advisers have been deployed to Cope hotspots to troubleshoot.
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/ 25 November 2008
KZN ANC provincial secretary: Lekota’s continued criticism of the ANC ”makes it difficult for us to appeal for discipline from the people”.
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/ 25 November 2008
Maduna offered professional advice to Mantashe, who recently came under fire for calling Constitutional Court judges ”counter-revolutionary”.