Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
By this time next year Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will most likely not be in office, writes Ferial Haffajee.
The only way Kgalema Motlanthe can continue as SA’s president after the 2009 elections is if ANC president Jacob Zuma agrees.
In his first interview since his inauguration, President Kgalema Motlanthe speaks about his reaction to his sudden elevation and the state of the ANC.
President Kgalema Motlanthe will not be easily influenced by the ANC’s leftist allies to make policy changes.
The complete absence of left-wing leaders in President Kgalema Motlanthe’s Cabinet has heightened fears among Jacob Zuma’s left-wing supporters.
What qualifies Baleka Mbete for her new job as deputy president? Her record as National Assembly speaker suggests she can get things done.
SA’s new leader on Thursday backed former president Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in Zimbabwe, saying he would revive a stalled power-sharing deal.
Two strikingly different speeches — one saying goodbye, and the other saying hello. Two moods and two different styles.
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/ 29 September 2008
The stand-in president is one of the only people who can heal the party’s wounds.
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/ 28 September 2008
The past few days have proven the durability of South Africa’s constitutional order, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Sunday.
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/ 28 September 2008
Zuma has confirmed that it was Motlanthe’s beard, and his ability to stroke it in a reassuring manner, that won him the coveted position.
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/ 28 September 2008
One of the first hot potatoes President Kgalema Motlanthe will have to handle is the choice of the 18th judge of the Constitutional Court.
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/ 27 September 2008
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad has resigned, his department announced on Saturday.
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/ 27 September 2008
President Kgalema Motlanthe has assured Fifa of the government’s ongoing backing of the Confederations Cup and 2010 World Cup.
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/ 27 September 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe will find himself with a heavily laden in tray bequeathed to him by former president Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 26 September 2008
The inauguration of President Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday and his shuffling of the Cabinet have been roundly welcomed.
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/ 26 September 2008
Nelson Mandela on Friday congratulated new President Kgalema Motlanthe, saying the country was in "good hands" after a week of political turmoil.
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/ 26 September 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions called on new President Kgalema Motlanthe on Friday to eradicate poverty and create jobs.
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/ 26 September 2008
Wconomists Moody’s expressed comfort on Friday with the fact that President Kgalema Motlanthe had opted not to tinker with SA’s economic policy.
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/ 26 September 2008
South Africa’s new President Kgalema Motlanthe won praise on Friday for quickly forming a government after a week of political turbulence.
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/ 26 September 2008
Newly elected President Kgalema Motlanthe used the limited room afforded by a partial Cabinet reshuffle to promise stability.
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/ 26 September 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe was first to arrive, parking his Audi and slipping into the empty chamber for his last hours outside the presidential bubble.
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/ 26 September 2008
South Africa’s new president reappointed Trevor Manuel as Finance Minister on Thursday, reassuring investors worried about major policy change.
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/ 26 September 2008
With the mediator’s future uncertain, Zimbabwe’s ground becomes even shakier for the MDC, Zanu‑PF and the ANC
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/ 26 September 2008
Will the new president, Kgalema Motlanthe, come under pressure from Luthuli House to lean on the NPA not to appeal?
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/ 26 September 2008
Market reaction showed the value of the finance minister’s stock, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 26 September 2008
Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 25 September 2008
Deputy ANC leader Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as president on Thursday to replace Thabo Mbeki, who resigned amid a political crisis.
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/ 25 September 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe took office on Thursday as South Africa’s president and stressed he would keep to the policies of his predecessor Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 25 September 2008
South Africa’s Parliament convened on Thursday to elect a new president, after the ruling party forced Thabo Mbeki from office.
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/ 25 September 2008
SA’s third post-apartheid president is set to be sworn into office on Thursday after the dramatic toppling of Thabo Mbeki by his own party.