Cassel Mathale has taken an indirect swipe at Zuma and Mantashe for attempting to "depoliticise and liquidate" the ANC Youth League at the conference.
The governing party should not get sidetracked by infighting, writes <b>William Gumede</b>. Perhaps it needs American-style presidential primaries.
The MDC has been stung by the ANC’s public endorsement of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party last weekend.
The ANC has spared its president Jacob Zuma possible embarrassment by not sending him to address the party’s Limpopo congress.
The bum-kissing pledge by Gwede Mantashe to support Zanu-PF during Zimbabwe’s polls next year has justifiably raised the ire of everyone.
The ANC has confirmed media reports that it would support Zanu-PF in the 2012 general elections, saying it would benefit all Zimbabweans.
Gwede Mantashe has promised Zanu-PF delegates that the ANC would assist the party in retaining its power at the next national elections in Zimbabwe.
President Jacob Zuma has declared war on ANC leaders who continue to leak confidential information to the media.
The ANC will push for a new interventionist economic nationalism, rather than a simplistic nationalisation of the country’s resources.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe wailed on Monday about national executive committee (NEC) members being "snakes" and a "fifth column.
The ANC NEC says that people who join the party are bound by its policies, in reference to the two MPs who didn’t vote for the secrecy Bill last week.
ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu says the party’s task team, investigating nationalisation of the country’s mines, has "almost finished its work".
The ANC’s NEC has raised concerns over leaders leaking information, with Gwede Mantashe saying the party should do what it can to discourage it.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says the party will roar ahead into 2012, following recent media reports of a possible "implosion" in the party.
The ANC Youth League’s attack on the ruling party’s NDC is the first step towards exposing President Jacob Zuma as the "worst leader" of the ANC.
Suspended ANC Youth League President Julius Malema is leading the league’s national executive committee meeting in Benoni.
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/ 28 October 2011
The ANCYL’s economic freedom march through Johannesburg provoked furious debate in the ANC-led alliance.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has begun leading around 2 000 marchers on their long walk to economic freedom (and, ultimately, Pretoria).
Gwede Mantashe resolved some of the tension between the ANC and its youth league by rubber-stamping the proposed march — and setting some conditions.
The ANC has said any pronouncements by its youth league about who it is backing in the party’s leadership succession race are "void of impact".
The ANCYL has publicly said it will back Kgalema Motlanthe and Fikile Mbalula to replace Zuma and Mantashe as ANC president and secretary-general.
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/ 10 October 2011
Gwede Mantashe is to lead a high-level delegation to China in a visit the ANC insists has nothing to do with the Dalai Lama visa debacle.
High-ranking ANC officials visited China this week in what could be seen as the party’s unreserved support for Beijing.
President Zuma’s supporters are moving to consolidate his power in Luthuli House and in strategic provinces ahead of the party’s elective conference.
The ANC provincial conference in Limpopo will go ahead despite attempts by Gwede Mantashe to delay it until next year.
Some comrades appear determined to sow divisions in the African National Congress, said secretary-general Gwede Mantashe in a media report.
A day before Parliament is due to debate the controversial secrecy Bill, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has signalled it may be shelved.
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/ 16 September 2011
Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing is revealing the broad fault lines in the ANC’s leadership.
There is nothing wrong with cadre deployment, as it gives black people operational exposure, says ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
And start singing of counter-revolutionary judges.
Provincial leaders say they warned Luthuli House against pursuing disciplinary processes against Malema, and will not discipline their members.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing has been moved to an undisclosed location due to pending legal action against the ANC.