Land reform minister announces an intensified programme to allocate arable land to emerging farmers
The deputy minister of rural development and land reform may assist more than 20 000 farm dwellers facing eviction in the Drakenstein municipality
The national department says it is behind the Western Cape’s success – and it provides the funds
A vicious attack on an ANC meeting has exposed the bitter divisions in the ‘Nkandla of the Cape.’
The state may bring Ebrahim Rasool home from the US to pre-empt the outcome of a DA-led criminal investigation into the "brown envelope" scandal.
Fed up with the replacement of its elected candidate, Knysna is declaring its independence, writes <b>Glynnis Underhill</b>.
Top members of the ANC this week spent days listening to ANC groups who appealed against the processes of the Western Cape provincial conference.
Affidavits filed with the police allege bribery and threats of violence to compel voting for certain candidates.
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/ 14 February 2011
The ANC in the Western Cape are similar to the Idols hopefuls they shared conference space with this weekend, writes <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
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/ 13 February 2011
Marius Fransman was elected as the chairperson of the Western Cape ANC on Saturday night after his rival claimed the proceedings were "fraudulent".
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/ 12 February 2011
Jacob Zuma berated delegates at an ANC conference in Cape Town on Saturday for failing to regain the region from the Democratic Alliance.
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/ 11 February 2011
The start ANC’s repeatedly postponed Western Cape provincial conference was delayed once again on Friday as delegates arrived late for the talks.
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/ 4 February 2011
Candidates supporting Mcebisi Skwatsha have taken the top positions in both the Boland and Southern Cape regional executives.
The ANC Women’s League is up in arms after being banned from voting at a conference in the Boland.
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/ 14 December 2010
The ANC will hold its much-delayed Western Cape provincial conference only after next year’s local government polls.
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/ 3 December 2010
Trevor Manuel jetted into Cape Town to help ANC leaders unify.
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/ 6 November 2009
Ebrahim Rasool has found himself relieved and vindicated by the admission that there had been some collusion between the DA and some ANC members.
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/ 30 October 2009
The Western Cape politician says he didn’t give information to the DA.
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/ 11 December 2008
The ANC on Thursday asked the Constitutional Court to invalidate the 12 by-elections their candidates were excluded from in the Western Cape.
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/ 21 November 2008
Two months into his new job as ANC chair in the Western Cape, Mcebisi Skwatsha is confident that the ANC will win the province in the next election.
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/ 20 November 2008
An ANC meeting has been called off after a reportedly drunk group of outsiders caused a disruption.
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/ 14 October 2008
The ANC intends to take ”radical action” against suspended long-time comrade Mosiuoa Lekota, says party leader Jacob Zuma.
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/ 13 October 2008
In true Cape style, two sharply divergent tendencies have now emerged in one of the factions of the Western Cape ANC.
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/ 1 September 2008
Two senior ANC officials in the Western Cape are being investigated for allegedly doctoring and then leaking a party audit.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
Luthuli House has stepped into the faction-ridden Western Cape ANC, raising the possibility that the provincial leadership will be replaced.
”We know that the guy who stabbed Mcebisi was standing with a group of people including the Paarl Regional Executive Council”
The collar of his leather jacket probably saved his life when he was stabbed in the neck, Western Cape provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha said.
The African National Congress’s Western Cape secretary, Mcebisi Skwatsha, was stabbed in the neck at an ANC meeting on Thursday evening.
Cape Town’s director of health, former anti-conscription campaigner Ivan Toms, was found dead in his home on Tuesday morning, police said. Police spokesperson Superintendent Billy Jones said foul play was not suspected at this stage. He said police used a key from a neighbour to gain access to Toms’ Mowbray home at about 9.30am.
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/ 27 November 2007
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool has apologised to the provincial legislature for ”incorrect” statements made before it on overspending. ”To bring finality and closure to an unfortunate episode, I apologise for anything I said that led to the conclusion of the ad-hoc committee,” he said in Cape Town on Tuesday.
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/ 29 October 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has asked the police to let her listen to tapes related to the city’s ”spy” affair. Her request, in a letter to provincial Commissioner Mzwandile Petros on Monday, comes after police played some of the tapes to journalists. She said in a statement that Petros had also ”presented” the tapes to Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool.