As its NEC lekgotla kicks off, the ANC Youth League remains determined that Julius Malema will not be replaced, even if his suspension takes effect.
The appeals committee ruling has failed to clear the air and uncertainty surrounding Julius Malema’s future with the organisation.
The ANC’s NDC of Appeals chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Saturday that the NDC’s guilty verdict against ANCYL top brass & Julius Malema, is upheld.
While the ANC’s appeals committee has upheld the majority of the ANCYL suspensions, Malema and his co-accused can still present mitigating evidence.
ANC national disciplinary committee has denied the former Youth League president’s appeal against his suspension from the party.
The ANC Youth League claims it has hard evidence of a political vendetta being waged against its leaders through a leaked email.
There’s been an information blackout on ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s appeal hearing with party members being instructed not to comment.
A handful of ANC Youth League supporters marched outside Luthuli House, as Julius Malema’s appeal against his suspension from the ANC started.
As lawyers prepare to appeal Julius Malema’s suspension, the ANC looks set to be on the receiving end of more bitter rhetoric from the youth league.
The Democratic Alliance’s bid to overturn the dropping of corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma is critical to the ANC’s succession race.
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/ 6 September 2011
Glencore, the world’s largest commodity trader, has said that it had almost doubled its stake in South African takeover target Optimum Coal to 23.9%.
Business leaders must bear part of the blame for a call to nationalise South Africa’s mines, according to Cyril Ramaphosa.
Prominent and politically connected businessman Cyril Ramaphosa is taking over McDonald’s restaurants in the country, McDonald’s said on Thursday.
Shareholders of a broad-based platinum deal are
being bought out by a major empowerment player,
yet nobody seems to be overly concerned.
The corporate sector is ”lazy” and has given up its role in solving skills shortages, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.
While the arrival of the Seacom cable is great news for bandwidth starved SA, the launch at Neotel’s Midrand data centre was a damp squib.
South Africa has put together a list of proposed black candidates for a new chairperson of Anglo American, including Cyril Ramaphosa.
South Africa has made great strides in creating a democratic country, former politician and transition negotiator Roelf Meyer said on Friday.
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/ 15 December 2008
SA cellular network operator MTN on Monday announced plans to implement a new BEE transaction during the first half of 2009.
Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
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/ 29 September 2008
The stand-in president is one of the only people who can heal the party’s wounds.
It was time to organise South Africans for another struggle, this time against crime, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said in Midrand on Thursday.
South Africans search for bookish answers in a time of political doubt, writes Nosimilo Ndlovu.
The South African state is imploding. Although there is not a moment to spare, we can still avoid the coming crash if we act quickly enough. But, first, there has to be an official acknowledgement that there is a crisis. Astonishingly, denial of the crisis remains the mainstay of President Thabo Mbeki and his leading officials, writes William M Gumede.
India’s Reliance Communications is prepared to pay a significant premium for control of South African mobile phone group MTN, the FT Alphaville website said on Thursday. MTN and Reliance said on Monday they were in exclusive talks after India’s biggest mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel broke off talks.
Merger talks between India’s biggest cellphone services firm, Bharti Airtel, and South Africa’s flagship MTN Group could wind up this weekend, a report said on Saturday. A merged group would create the world’s sixth-largest mobile company with a network of 130-million subscribers.
If there was ever a period that so ably demonstrated the febrile nature of politics it has been the past week or two. As Jacob Zuma strode into Downing Street after having met with the British prime minister, looking surprisingly at ease in the media glare, Thabo Mbeki was quietly meeting King Mswati III which, with all due respect to the Swazi monarch, pretty much sums up the state of play: Zuma on the ascendant, Mbeki on the slide.
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/ 4 February 2008
South African business tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa, chosen by former United Nations chief Kofi Annan to head long-term mediation efforts in Kenya, pulled out on Monday because of reservations expressed by the Kenyan government. ”Kofi Annan reluctantly accepts the withdrawal of Cyril Ramaphosa from the role of chief mediator,” a UN official said.
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/ 1 February 2008
Prominent South African businessman Cyril Ramaphosa was expected in Kenya later on Friday to help mediate in talks between the government and the opposition aimed at ending a month of post-election violence. Ramaphosa led the African National Congress in negotiations with the National Party to end apartheid in the early 1990s.
Arms-deal corruption must be probed by an independent judiciary, Independent Democrats (ID) leader Patricia de Lille said on Tuesday. ”It is the African National Congress’s right to set up an ad-hoc committee on the arms deal, but we in the ID want all the allegations of corruption in the deal to be tested by an independent judiciary,” said De Lille.
The ANC’s national executive committee elected its 28-member national working committee (NWC) on Monday. Get the complete list of NWC members here, as well as the names of the eight ANC members who will form part of the ad hoc committee to draw up a report on the arms deal.
The African National Congress (ANC) will appoint an ad-hoc committee to draw up a ”detailed factual report” on the arms deal, the party announced in Johannesburg on Tuesday. ”We are not asking for the re-opening of the arms deal. We need to get a detailed formal report … to take informed decisions,” party secretary general Gwede Mantashe told journalists.