Pahad was a former minister to the presidency and anti-apartheid activist
Whether national security should be located inside or outside the presidency must be considered based on functionality and constitutional values
The apartheid police force did everything in their power to ensure they could not be held liable for the unlawful killings of anti-apartheid activists
Given Mbeki’s record in national office, his lofty reputation is not entirely deserved.
The former minister in the presidency says he was formally introduced to a young Atul Gupta during a visit to India with the former president in 1996.
Maphatsoe called ANC veterans ’empty tins with no credibility’, comments from which the party has distanced itself.
The Thabo Mbeki Foundation issued a statement on Monday denying any connections with the Gupta family as had been reported in the media on Sunday.
Three years after the "palace coup" that saw him leave office, opinions are divided on whether Thabo Mbeki should return to active domestic politics.
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/ 15 December 2011
The rows over Mac Maharaj and Willem Heath are a new phase in an old war between the acolytes of Thabo Mbeki and the minds behind Operation Vula.
Former minister in the presidency Essop Pahad has broken business ties with the Gupta family by resigning as director of TNA Media, media reports say.
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/ 1 December 2010
The long-awaited print launch of <em>New Age </em>will take place on December 6, the newspaper’s editor Henry Jeffreys confirmed on Tuesday.
A showdown over the launch date and a lack of resources appear to have been what prompted the five most senior editors at the New Age to resign.
The Zuma-aligned Gupta family launched their own "good news" newspaper at a glitzy party. <b>Mandy Rossouw</b> reports.
Former Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad on Thursday launched a new national daily newspaper, the <em>New Age</em>, in Johannesburg.
The Gupta Group on Tuesday confirmed it will launch a new national daily newspaper in September.
Questions have emerged about the role of Paul Mashatile in payments of R50-million made by the Gauteng Film Commission to an American news channel.
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/ 26 September 2008
Two of the ministers who resigned from Thabo Mbeki’s Cabinet this week spoke to the Mail & Guardian about why they resigned.
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/ 25 September 2008
The ANC) decision to recall president Thabo Mbeki was unjust, outgoing Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 September 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is among 11 Cabinet ministers and three deputy ministers who have resigned.
Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.
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/ 11 September 2008
The Afrikanerbond has appealed a decision by the SA Human Rights Commission on what it considers hate speech by Essop Pahad.
The Afrikanerbond has lodged a complaint against Essop Pahad after he said that some whites were not supportive of SA’s hosting of the World Cup.
President Thabo Mbeki is consulting his lawyers on possible action over the newspaper’s report of his allegedly corrupt involvement in the arms deal.
Upgrading Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria is ”slightly” behind schedule but the stadium will be ready for the Soccer World Cup in 2010, a manager said.
The presidency orchestrated South African Broadcasting Corporation CEO Dali Mpofu’s suspension, his lawyers claimed on Thursday. Mpofu is challenging his suspension in the Johannesburg High Court. Mpofu said board chairperson Kanyi Mkhonza was acting on an instruction to ”get rid of the CEO” issued by the Minister in the Presidency, Essop Pahad.
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?
"The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has attacked myself and my colleagues personally, basing its entire story on an anonymous ‘source’ clearly informed by his or her own agendas, without any substantiation." Tim Modise, World Cup LOC communications chief, says the <i>M&G </i>is focusing on personalities rather than the bigger picture.
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/ 16 December 2007
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Ministers and aides in President Thabo Mbeki’s government were heckled by delegates on Sunday when the African National Congress opened a conference that could see Mbeki losing control over the party. Some of the delegates booed Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Essop Pahad, a top aide to Mbeki, as they arrived.
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/ 13 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki was involved in the African National Congress (ANC) leadership’s blocking of a parliamentary investigation into alleged bribery by BAE Systems and other weapons firms in South Africa’s biggest arms deal to date, according to a former MP who was driven out of the ANC for spearheading the inquiry.