With Jacob Zuma almost assured of a second term as ANC leader, attention has turned to arguably a more important battle for the deputy presidency.
The ANC has called for Swaziland to be "liberated" as part of the outcomes of an International Solidarity Conference the party hosted last week.
The ANC Youth League has provided detailed reasons for its stance that disciplinary action against its leaders was politically motivated.
The unity shown at the ANC’s press conference, which was meant to show the leadership’s control, has been undermined by behind-the-scenes infighting.
Former deputy president Baleka Mbete has been unanimously voted on to to the African Union’s African Peer Review Mechanism panel.
ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete says all South Africans and people from around the world are welcome at the ANC’s centenary celebrations in Mangaung.
The ANC hopes to mobilise 100 000 people to take part in its centenary celebrations in Bloemfontein which will be attended by various heads of states.
Questions are raised about whether the public should pay for the ANC’s parties.
The ANC has taken issue with a news report that its chairperson Baleka Mbete has been slated for giving details about the cost of its centenary party.
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/ 8 November 2011
The ANC’s centenary birthday celebrations will cost more than R100-million — a three-day event that includes a presidential gala and a night vigil.
The ANCYL has withdrawn its commitment to the establishment of a "Botswana Command Team" after comments last month.
The ANC says it postponed a meeting with the ANC Youth League’s new leaders as some issues that needed addressing could lead to disciplinary action.
The ANC has called for the entrenchment of non-racialism and unity as it celebrates its centenary.
ANC will focus on the values of the generation of party members who had passed on, as it turns 100 in 2012, chairperson Baleka Mbete said on Friday.
The African National Congress (ANC) has to maintain its links with the people on the ground, ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete said on Thursday.
Comparisons with apartheid signals the party’s support for Swaziland’s monarchy is waning.
Identifying practical steps to create jobs is the main focus of a meeting of the ANC’s top brass under way in Midrand on Thursday.
It was not a good idea for Helen Zille to behave as if she was going to secede from South Africa, Baleka Mbete said on Wednesday night.
Former deputy president Baleka Mbete has told the SABC she was not holding out for the job of deputy president.
Media speculation about why ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete was not sworn in as an MP last week was ”distorted”, she said on Tuesday.
For some, the announcement of Jacob Zuma’s new executive comes with a sigh of relief, for others it dashed their high hopes, writes Mandy Rossouw.
Jacob Zuma will inherit some old problems: intra-alliance tensions and provincial ructions — and some new ones created by his Cabinet choice.
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/ 9 February 2009
Deputy President Baleka Mbete admitted on Monday that "more still needs to be done and we can do better when we work together".
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/ 2 December 2008
A unified approach comprising all sectors of the economy and society is needed to fight crime in the country, Deputy President Baleka Mbete says.
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/ 1 December 2008
Use a condom with each partner, and every time you have sex, Deputy President Baleka Mbete said on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2008
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has emerged as a key role player in the removal of prisons director general Vernie Petersen from his job.
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/ 20 October 2008
Businessman Hugh Glenister will this week seek an interdict to bar Travelgate MPs from voting on legislation aimed at disbanding the Scorpions.
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/ 17 October 2008
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has a lot on her mind. With Evita Bezuidenhout registering her own political party, Mbete will have competition.
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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.
What qualifies Baleka Mbete for her new job as deputy president? Her record as National Assembly speaker suggests she can get things done.
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/ 29 September 2008
The stand-in president is one of the only people who can heal the party’s wounds.
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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.