A recent count showed theANC had more than 820 000 members — and many of them Afrikaners, officials said on Thursday.
Burglars have raided the home of deputy police minister Fikile Mbalula, one of the key figures charged with preventing crime at the World Cup.
The ANCYL has denied that its "one boyfriend, one girlfriend" campaign was directed at President Jacob Zuma, amidst reports of his waning support.
The ANC’s decision to charge youth league president Julius Malema has sharpened the battle for ANC leadership in 2012.
Members of the ANC’s top leadership are planning to take President Jacob Zuma to task over his public scolding of youth leader Julius Malema.
President Jacob Zuma has defended controversial ANC Youth League president Julius Malema again, saying he will not be forced into shouting him down.
Pressure is mounting in the ANC for President Jacob Zuma to step down as ANC leader once his term ends in 2012 and make way for new leadership.
Solidarity union launched an anti-crime campaign at the weekend aimed at sending at least 10
No booing or ill discipline would be allowed at the ANC’s 98th anniversary celebrations in Kimberley this weekend, organiser Fikile Mbalula said.
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/ 7 December 2009
The police force will make South Africa safe for the 2010 World Cup and beyond, national Police Commissioner Bheki Cele said on Monday.
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/ 18 November 2009
It is unfortunate that civilians and police die during armed conflict with criminals, but it is a reality, Fikile Mbabula said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 November 2009
The shooting of civilians by the police cannot be attributed to recent ”sensational” media reports, the secretary of police said on Friday.
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/ 12 November 2009
It is unavoidable that innocent civilians will get shot in the crossfire between police and criminals, Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula says.
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/ 28 October 2009
Former minister Kader Asmal on Wednesday urged people to fight for the Constitution, not him.
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/ 22 October 2009
ANC veteran Kader Asmal has publicly attacked Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula over the latter’s call for the militarisation of the police.
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/ 19 October 2009
Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula’s idea of militarising the police service is ”craziness”, former minister Kader Asmal said on Monday.
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/ 15 October 2009
Weeks of violent protest have earned the troubled Sakhile township a visit by senior ANC figures, in the area on a “fact-finding” mission.
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/ 4 September 2009
A succession battle is emerging in the ANC between secretary general Gwede Mantashe and Fikile Mbalula, a national executive committee member.
Fikile Mbalula on Wednesday announced details of a community programme which, if taken literally, aims to send criminals running for the toilet.
President Kgalema Motlanthe has said Fikile Mbalula should explain why he wrote an open letter about former president Thabo Mbeki.
Former president Thabo Mbeki is a ”conniving” person who betrayed the legacy of struggle icon Nelson Mandela, the ANC’s election head said on Tuesday.
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/ 20 February 2009
Matuma Letsoalo interviewed Fikile Mbalula, head of campaigns for the ANC and a former leader of the ANC Youth League.
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/ 10 November 2008
The ANC said it was still waiting for the real masters of the new political formation, the Congress of the People, to show their faces.
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/ 30 October 2008
How the Free State-based Mbalula landed in the bushes of Cape Town’s Philippi for his circumcision is still clouded in mystery.
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/ 11 September 2008
The decision of former ANC Youth League president Fikile Mbalula to undergo circumcision has been praised by a prominent traditional leader.
Mantashe: the North West, the Northern Cape and the Free State had been identified as areas where Luthuli House needed to intervene.
While some ANC Youth League comrades drove off to their hotels in luxurious cars, others walked across to their buses in the parking lot
The carefully constructed unity of the African National Congress Youth League was showing cracks on Sunday at its congress in Johannesburg.
Whistles, clapping, stamping, the Nasrec Expo Centre vibrates with the sounds of young voices, singing songs vowing to "fight and kill for Zuma".
Robert Nkuna, Ryan Coetzee, Fikile Mbalula, Juanita Terblanche, Julius Malema, Naledi Kekana, Zizi Kodwa, David Masondo and more …
Newly elected African National Congress Youth League (ANC) head Julius Malema used his first letter as president to chastise those who showed ”unbecoming conduct” at the league’s conference in Bloemfontein recently. ”Thugs and hooligans who believe they can hold the organisation to ransom … will be dealt with,” said Malema on Monday.
Julius Malema has been elected as African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president at the league’s national conference at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. Malema received 1Â 883 votes, it was announced on Monday, while the other candidate, Saki Mofokeng, received 1Â 696.