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/ 24 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday declined to be drawn on who would be part of the new Cabinet under Kgalema Motlanthe’s leadership.
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/ 22 September 2008
ANC chief Jacob Zuma said on Monday there would be a ”smooth transition” in the presidency after the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 22 September 2008
The ANC will name party deputy head Kgalema Motlanthe as SA’s caretaker leader on Monday to replace President Thabo Mbeki, Reuters reports.
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/ 22 September 2008
The African National Congress on Monday named its deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as head of state until elections are held in seven months’ time.
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/ 6 September 2008
The league’s membership has dropped dramatically over the past four years, from more than 500 000 to 317 000.
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/ 5 September 2008
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accused cellphone giant Vodacom of helping the ANC-controlled Western Cape government to illegally spy on her.
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/ 2 September 2008
The ANC and the ANC Youth League have resolved to disagree in private, following accusations by the league that it was being attacked in public.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
The party’s 2009 election strategy begins in earnest this weekend and it will need to surmount numerous internal battles.
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) believes it is being attacked in the media by ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> strongly disagrees with Kgalema Motlanthe’s rather feeble reasons for wanting the Scorpions disbanded.
Leaders of the ANC are trying to fix its image ahead of the 2009 elections, but it is battling to speak with one voice, analysts say.
Former Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool has been appointed one of two special advisers to Minister in the Presidency Kgalema Motlanthe.
SA should be worried about the implications of Jacob Zuma’s Constitutional Court setback, says his supporters.
Kgalema Motlanthe, appointed by President Thabo Mbeki to Cabinet last week, attended his first meeting of the executive on Tuesday.
African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe will be sworn in as minister without portfolio at the Union Buildings on Friday.
Media reports say the African National Congress has fired the premiers of the Western and Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela and Ebrahim Rasool.
A blend of the two camps in the ANC might avert its sinking into the lowest form of rule.
ANC deputy president Kgalema Molanthe that Julius Malema’s remarks would be discussed at the ANC’s national working committee meeting next week.
The ANC wants its deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, to be given a Cabinet post, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Friday.
The collar of his leather jacket probably saved his life when he was stabbed in the neck, Western Cape provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha said.
President Thabo Mbeki insisted this week that he had no prior warning of xenophobic violence, but he was flatly contradicted by a group of Congolese and Rwandan refugees in Cape Town.
The South African state is imploding. Although there is not a moment to spare, we can still avoid the coming crash if we act quickly enough. But, first, there has to be an official acknowledgement that there is a crisis. Astonishingly, denial of the crisis remains the mainstay of President Thabo Mbeki and his leading officials, writes William M Gumede.
City Press has successfully appealed against a press ombudsman finding over the accuracy and fairness of a report on African National Congress president Jacob Zuma, the Press Council Appeals Panel said on Friday. The article, headlined ”Cracks in Zuma’s NEC”, reported that Zuma became angry at a national executive committee [NEC] meeting on January 8.
African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, recently sworn in as an MP, will remain on the back benches of Parliament for now and will not join the Cabinet, he said on Thursday. ”I will be on the back benches. I’m going to have to learn how the institution works,” he told reporters at the International Media Forum in Johannesburg.
African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday said the police responded too slowly to the first xenophobic attacks in Alexandra. This came as it was reported that anti-foreigner violence had spread to North West. More than 40 people have been killed since the outbreak of xenophobic attacks on May 12.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has received support from alliance partners to run for presidential elections, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday. ”We will not only be accompanying him to court but to the Union Buildings as the next president of South Africa,” he said, announcing the outcome of an alliance.
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African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma on Friday called for a closure of the ”chapter of tension and mistrust” between the ruling party and its alliance partners. The relationship between the ANC and its alliance partners had become somewhat strained under the previous leadership of national President Thabo Mbeki.
The African National Congress (ANC) has asked President Thabo Mbeki to appoint its deputy president to Parliament as a first step to getting him into the Cabinet, an ANC official said on Tuesday. ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, a left-leaning intellectual and ally of ANC leader Jacob Zuma, has been touted as a compromise presidential candidate.
The Presidency on Tuesday could not confirm reports that African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe would be deployed to the Cabinet within days. ”I don’t know … I have not been advised on anything,” said presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga.
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.
President Thabo Mbeki is set to appoint African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe to his Cabinet next month after being ordered to do so by his party, the Sunday Times reported. Motlanthe is likely to be sworn in as a member of Parliament when it opens in the first week in May.