The national executive committee member and former key policymaker refused to apologise for saying monopoly capital was not restricted to white people
The ANC president said the level of the discussions showed that the party has been in government for 23 years.
The ANC national policy conference has proposed that the term white monopoly capital not be used in its vocabulary
The timing of the fraud claims against the finance minister has raised suspicions among close to a dozen of the party’s NEC members.
M&G readers air their views on political accountability and cadre deployment.
ANC NEC member Joel Netshitenzhe says the significant change in South Africa’s class structure over the past 18 years has implications for the party.
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/ 7 September 2010
A strategic national plan for the mining sector needs to be developed before looking at nationalisation of mines, says Joel Netshitenzhe.
Joel Netshitenzhe, a former key policy-maker, has joined Nedbank as an independent non-executive director.
What should be done to ensure that young South Africans break free of the psychology of marginalisation?, asks Joel Netshitenzhe.
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/ 23 October 2009
This week government policy head Joel Netshitenzhe stepped down amid a restructuring of Cabinet that appeared to strengthen the hand of the left.
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/ 23 October 2009
Victory celebrations in the tripartite alliance and among left-wing ministers over this week’s Cabinet reorganisation are set to be cut short.
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/ 20 October 2009
The sudden resignation of the government’s policy guru, Joel Netshitenzhe, sent shockwaves through government circles on Tuesday.
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/ 27 January 2008
Is it our business as journalists to pronounce on who is best placed to lead the ANC? If you look at some of the personalities in the party’s new leadership, such as unrepentant convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni, or former Mpumalanga health minister Sibongile Manana, who tried to frustrate provision of treatment to people with HIV, the temptation exists to damn them all.
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/ 20 December 2007
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Finding a value-based overarching South African identity has become a priority for the African National Congress (ANC), national executive committee member Joel Netshitenzhe revealed on Thursday in a press briefing on the party’s strategy and tactics document.
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/ 19 December 2007
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The African National Congress’s 52nd national conference got down on Wednesday to the nitty-gritty work of the commission that discusses the party’s policies in an atmosphere that one delegate described as the ”cessation of hostilities” over its new president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 18 December 2007
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Jacob Zuma is the new president of the African National Congress. The announcement was greeted by an outpouring of joy and ecstatic cheering by ANC delegates at the party’s conference in Polokwane shortly before 9pm on Tuesday. Thabo Mbeki received 1 505 votes and Zuma received 2 329.
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/ 18 December 2007
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A third day of cool, rainy weather in Polokwane did little to quench the fiery support for the front-runners in the ANC presidential race: Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Voting for the party’s top six officials started later than the scheduled time of 6am on Tuesday morning due to computer-related delays.
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/ 18 December 2007
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”Comrade Motlanthe, sabela uya-bizwa,”sang delegates at the conference on Sunday. ”Comrade Motlanthe, you are being called to service!” Kgalema Motlanthe has been portrayed by both camps as the indecisive, weak link in the ANC infighting.
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/ 18 December 2007
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Voters turned out in droves on Tuesday for the election of the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) president at the University of Limpopo. It was unclear whether voting had started, as journalists were barred from going anywhere near the voting station.
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/ 17 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>African National Congress (ANC) heavyweight Tokyo Sexwale on Monday night declined his nomination to the position of national chairperson as the names of those in the running for the ruling party’s top six positions were announced. As predicted, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma go head to head in the contest for party president.
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/ 17 December 2007
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On Sunday a picture emerged of strong support for Jacob Zuma, overshowing the rest and spectacularly managing to humiliate national ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota. As strong an indicator as it was, some delegates supporting President Thabo Mbeki insisted that an Mbeki win remained a possibility.
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/ 11 December 2007
There is a moment when you can sense the power draining away, when a point of no return has been reached and passed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing that moment now in Britain, as a sense of staleness, sleaze and incompetence overwhelms his government.
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/ 6 December 2007
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Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has declined a nomination as African National Congress (ANC) chairperson but has accepted a nomination for deputy president. This emerged on Thursday when the ANC released its long-awaited consolidated list of nominations for its national executive committee.
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/ 6 December 2007
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Some of the most respected figures in the African National Congress (ANC) could be excluded from the party’s national executive committee should deputy president Jacob Zuma win the race for the ANC presidency, a media report said on Thursday.
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/ 25 November 2007
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The African National Congress (ANC) in the North West has come out in support of President Thabo Mbeki to retain his position as the party’s president, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday. Mbeki also received the Western Cape’s support.
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/ 16 November 2007
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South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she would not refuse a nomination to head the ruling African National Congress and the country. Asked if she would be available for the ANC’s top post, she said: ”ANC cadres never refuse when they are deployed.”
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/ 14 November 2007
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The Sandton branch of the African National Congress (ANC) has not drawn up or endorsed any list of desired candidates for ANC leadership positions due to be determined later this year. The branch responded on Wednesday to a City Press article published this week that alleged the party had created such a list.
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/ 29 October 2007
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Groutville, the party branch founded by former African National Congress (ANC) president Albert Luthuli, has nominated Thabo Mbeki for ANC president, the Daily News reported on Monday. Arch-rival Jacob Zuma did not even make the branch’s list of its top six preferred candidates.
Forsaking high office in order to build the organisation should be the highest honour for members of the African National Congress (ANC), said the ruling party’s national treasurer Mendi Msimang on Saturday. ”Election to high office in the ANC should not be regarded as a stepping stone to government position or the accumulation of wealth,” he said.