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/ 22 November 2008
A few political parties contesting next year’s election outline their manifestos. This is the African National Congress’s.
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/ 22 November 2008
The Eastern Cape ANC has clamped down on possible defections to the Congress of the People by asking scores of branch leaders to pledge loyalty.
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/ 18 November 2008
It is a mystery why we spend billions financing 20 universities if we have to rely on Harvard professors to advise on macroeconomic strategy.
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/ 17 November 2008
The Congress of the People aims to be a progressive party of the left.
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/ 11 November 2008
The ANC has rejected claims that it is delaying its list process to avoid mass resignations by supporters of former president Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 11 November 2008
Personality politics is so painful to watch when politicians assume their personalities are anything other than unbearable.
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/ 10 November 2008
The entire post-1994 ANC leadership is to blame for the state of affairs.
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/ 3 November 2008
Policies that were looked at during the ANC’s 52nd conference had already been discussed within the movement.
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/ 31 October 2008
The letter from former president Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma is a stinging attack on the ANC’s criticism of breakaway leader Mosiuoa Lekota.
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/ 31 October 2008
”Shikota” has been selling the meetings as a platform to find ways of ensuring that democracy is protected.
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/ 31 October 2008
It began in a bakery. Mbhazima Shilowa tells
Mandy Rossouw and Mmanaledi Mataboge about his kickstart plans for a new party.
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/ 28 October 2008
With the unexpected expulsion of former president Thabo Mbeki, the ANC was caught without a transitional plan in place.
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/ 28 October 2008
Technology provides voters with a platform to move beyond historical loyalties.
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/ 26 October 2008
Wednesday afternoon at the Rhema Mthatha Christian Church and people are throwing their ANC membership cards into a box placed in front of the stage.
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/ 26 October 2008
As Lekota calls for a return to the old ANC, South Africa may just be witnessing the second coming of the old Terror Lekota.
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/ 25 October 2008
A network of youth leaders working inside the ANC are assisting the splinter group to set up its youth wing, which expects to launch soon.
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/ 24 October 2008
Efforts to disrupt campaigning by the
breakaway movement are in full swing, writes Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 24 October 2008
Like all government departments the Scorpions had its troubles and challenges, but there are a number of bodies in need of more urgent attention.
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/ 21 October 2008
Wednesday October 8 was probably the worst day the United Democratic Movement could have chosen to launch its campaign.
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/ 21 October 2008
Julius Malema’s rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.
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/ 20 October 2008
Mature leadership requires the implementation of the post-Polokwane pledge of reconciliation and inclusivity.
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/ 19 October 2008
SACP general secretary and ANC national executive committee (NEC) member Blade Nzimande lashed out at the ANC dissidents on Sunday.
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/ 19 October 2008
It was not surprising to see that the two conferences of the ANC this past weekend in Cape Town did their combating through song.
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/ 18 October 2008
Compelling as it may be, getting too absorbed in the intrigue of palace politics and personalities will lead us away from clarity in this crisis.
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/ 17 October 2008
In a month our health regime has moved from folly and despair to hope and commitment. With a mandate for change from health minister Barbara Hogan.
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/ 15 October 2008
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille offers some advice to Mosiuoa Lekota on how to launch a new party.
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/ 14 October 2008
A week is a long time in politics, it is said, and late June already feels like ancient history.
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/ 14 October 2008
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Thembelihle Tshabalala asked ordinary South Africans to share their views on the possibility of a new political party.
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/ 13 October 2008
Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.
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/ 12 October 2008
The former premier does not believe that a party based on protest will work, reports Rapule Tabane.
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/ 11 October 2008
As the banana splits and the monkeys come home to roost, a key debate is likely to be who owns the ANC brand.
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/ 11 October 2008
A split from the ANC? Forget it. The time is not right for a split and any new initiative will fail.