Some of the new provincial leaders are well known, others are not. We focus on five of the lesser-known premier.
Deputy press ombudsman Johan Retief has found <em>City Press</em> guilty of breaching the press code in an article about ANC’s Mathews Phosa.
ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa said the decision to sell the party’s stake in Hitachi Power Africa should be taken by the ruling party.
Key arms deal lobbyist and apartheid-era sanctions buster Tony Georgiadis is part President Jacob Zuma’s 213-person-strong business delegation.
Expect structural, policy and management changes to be announced in the next month or two, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday.
The ANC has made serious mistakes on public service deployment, BEE and land reform, the party’s treasurer-general Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday.
The NPA should review all its cases in which there was a potential for meddling, similar to that which occurred in the case of Jacob Zuma.
The NPA has not behaved properly in its bid to prosecute presidential frontrunner Jacob Zuma, ANC’s Mathews Phosa said on Tuesday.
Ivor Ichikowitz, the arms broker who laid on his jet to ferry Nelson Mandela to a rally, has made it his business to get close to key power-brokers.
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/ 27 February 2009
Luthuli House has a ”war room” tasked with gathering damaging information on the Congress of the People’s leaders in the run-up to the election.
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/ 6 February 2009
Jacob Zuma will not have a fair trial, because there is no judge does not have an opinion on his case, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said.
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/ 21 November 2008
The ANC on Friday lodged a formal complaint with the Public Protector against acting prosecutions head Mokotedi Mpshe, the protector’s office said.
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/ 15 October 2008
The African National Congress’s assurance that it would bail out local banks if they came under pressure from the global finance crisis was a good mov
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/ 14 October 2008
SA banks have been reassured that if they came under any pressure over the world credit crisis, the government would bail them out.
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/ 13 October 2008
The ANC warned its members on Monday against ”factional activity” following a meeting between Mathews Phosa and Mosiuoa Lekota.
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/ 13 October 2008
ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa will meet former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Monday morning in a reconciliation attempt.
The ANC has taken a magnanimous stance to threats by Mosiuoa Lekota to form his own party, but Jacob Zuma made it clear that patience is wearing thin.
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/ 12 September 2008
The African National Congress does not necessarily share the economic views of its leftist allies, party treasurer Mathews Phosa said on Thursday.
Eskom’s rapid spending to beat the electricity crisis is spreading largesse in high places.
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.
POINT: In April 2001, 22 months after Thabo Mbeki became president, the Mail & Guardian ran a full-length front-cover photograph of him alongside the question: ”Is this man fit to rule?” Letters to the paper the following week convey the intensity of the reaction. ”Who are these racists masquerading as newspapermen?”
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.
South Africa’s police and the African National Congress (ANC) intensified efforts on Tuesday to quell anti-foreigner violence that has killed at least 24 people and sent thousands of African immigrants into refugee shelters. Police have struggled for over a week to end the violent attacks on foreigners.
While anxiety due to the delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe’s presidential election results is shared, the process has not reached a dead end, the South African facilitation team said on Tuesday. ”The anxiety about the delay is certainly legitimate,” said Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi.
The African National Congress (ANC) is establishing transition teams to ensure a smooth transfer of power following next year’s election, ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa said on Tuesday. ”We have a transition team to make sure there is a seamless, stable transition between this national executive committee and the government,” Phosa said.
Hundreds of delegates arrived at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein on Thursday for the national conference of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). Although the programme for the day had not started by 11am, delegates already inside and outside the Callie Human Centre were dancing and singing songs, waiting for proceedings to start.
African National Congress treasurer general Mathews Phosa has called for an improvement in the country’s black economic empowerment (BEE) policy and urged the legal profession to consider whether the current BEE "framework" is "functional" and whether it is assisting emerging black entrepreneur.
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/ 25 February 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) is not conducting a forensic audit into empowerment deals and tenders that were received by its investment company, Chancellor House, the party said on Monday. ”The ANC wishes to place on record that it is neither conducting an investigation nor a forensic audit into the company or any of its transactions.”
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/ 24 February 2008
The African National Congress has ordered an audit of all empowerment deals and tenders that were received by its investment company, Chancellor House, media reports said on Sunday. Earlier this month, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reported that Chancellor House would exit two multibillion-rand contracts with Eskom.
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/ 28 January 2008
African National Congress (ANC) premiers and mayors who refuse to take instructions from the organisation will be removed from their position, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Sunday. Phosa said there was no ANC leader who was above the organisation.
Arms-deal corruption must be probed by an independent judiciary, Independent Democrats (ID) leader Patricia de Lille said on Tuesday. ”It is the African National Congress’s right to set up an ad-hoc committee on the arms deal, but we in the ID want all the allegations of corruption in the deal to be tested by an independent judiciary,” said De Lille.
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.