ANC Youth League (ANCYL) spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has been suspended by the Young Communist League (YCL), an official said on Sunday.
Deputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin tells the <em>Mail & Guardian</em> that sections of the taxi industry are blocking transformation.
Deputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin has defended the Transport Department’s spending on international conferences after DA criticism.
SA Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin was "raising false alarms" on the mine nationalisation debate, the ANC Youth League said.
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/ 18 December 2009
Constitutional amendments will strengthen the South African Communist Party’s management positions.
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/ 15 December 2009
ANCYL leader Julius Malema and the SACP’s Jeremy Cronin face disciplinary steps after a public spat, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says.
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/ 14 December 2009
SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin and other ANC NEC members connected to the SACP should undergo disciplinary action, the ANCYL says.
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/ 13 December 2009
ANCYL president Julius Malema has sent a threatening SMS to SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin, it was reported on Sunday.
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/ 26 November 2009
The ANCYL and SACP deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin have buried the hatchet after their spat over the nationalisation of the mines.
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/ 21 November 2009
The SACP has defended Jeremy Cronin after ANC Youth League president Julius Malema lambasted his stance on nationalising the mines.
Despite resistance from the local taxi industry, Johannesburg’s new public transport system is on track to begin operating at the end of August.
Johannesburg’s bus rapid transit (BRT) system — which lurched to a halt after threats by taxi bosses — on Thursday received the go-ahead.
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/ 28 January 2009
The ANC may have to scale down some of its development programmes, SA Communist Party deputy general-secretary Jeremy Cronin said on Wednesday.
Cries from Cosatu to zero-rate more food products, as well as the proposal of a national food control agency, has generated misinformed debate.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma, soon to stand trial on corruption charges, says he would ”decentralise” power if elected South Africa’s next president.
The Gautrain’s management on Thursday rejected suggestions that the project’s costs will rise to R35-billion. The project was well within budget, Gautrain Management Agency CEO Jack van der Merwe said. He was reacting to statements made by National Assembly transport committee chairperson Jeremy Cronin during a debate on Tuesday.
Jeremy Cronin, the deputy general secretary of the South African Communist Party, suggested in Parliament on Tuesday that there should be a council of state, which would be a super-Cabinet with a strategic planning mandate. Croning was speaking during debate on the Appropriation Bill.
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/ 15 January 2008
There is more than a touch of Ronald Reagan — or even, dare one say it, George W Bush — in Jacob Zuma. Apparently happily unencumbered by the need to demonstrate a towering intellectual faculty, he is an archetypal instinctive politician — streetwise, savvy and not to be underestimated.
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.
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/ 7 December 2007
Parliament’s transport portfolio committee has tabled a scathing report on the country’s transport preparedness to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The report, circulated in Parliament on Friday, says that at present there is only one senior official, a chief director, who is working full time on 2010 in the Department of Transport.
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/ 3 December 2007
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has declined to discuss the withdrawal of its protection services for South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande. ”It’s not something we can discuss in the public domain,” said national police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Vish Naidoo on Monday.
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/ 23 November 2007
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The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has thrown its weight behind Jacob Zuma for president of the ANC, with current president Thabo Mbeki not featuring on its list of 66 nominations released in Johannesburg on Friday. ”We didn’t support him [Mbeki] for president of the ANC,” said ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula.
"He’s behaving like Cosatu belongs to him," muttered one observer. It was a reference to Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi — the high-spirited, joke-cracking star of the show at the federation’s recent central committee (CC) meeting. Everything was going Vavi’s way.
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/ 26 September 2007
Tear gas billowed down the street every day as rioters battled police. Enraged protesters believed that even the Communist Party had turned its back on them. One evening, amid the debris of street barricades, I spotted two party officials — famed for their underground resistance — pleading with a group of rioters to renounce violent protest. This was in Rome exactly 30 years ago.
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/ 16 September 2007
A South African Communist Party (SACP) task team set up to investigate a controversial alleged donation by businessman Charles Modise has found no credible evidence that the donation ever existed, the party said on Sunday. The SACP said its political bureau took a ”dim view” of the conduct of Willie Madisha in the way he had handled the controversy.
Brent Meersman reports on the panel discussion, Is Poetry The New Black? which took place at this year’s Cape Town Book Fair