Exiting director general of home affairs admits that he failed to stamp out crime in his department.
Lobbying for leadership positions within Cope is gaining momentum, with the party’s structures circulating lists of their preferred candidates.
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/ 19 February 2010
The governing council of Ifad ended on Thursday in Rome, Italy, with promises of more assistance to smallholder farmers across the world.
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/ 18 February 2010
One in six people across the world are hungry, the International Fund for Agricultural Development has revealed.
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/ 18 February 2010
Haiti received special attention at the International Fund for Agricultural Development governing council meeting in Rome on Wednesday.
The minister of women, children and persons with disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has been in her office only "once or twice" this year.
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/ 10 February 2010
The ANC provincial task team in North West has been accused of entrenching a faction that supported Jacob Zuma for the ANC presidency.
Cope parliamentary chief whip Mbhazima Shilowa’s colleagues in the National Assembly are unhappy with his continued absence from important meetings.
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/ 5 February 2010
President Zuma’s second State of the Nation address next Friday will present him with tough questions on jobs and his commitment to HIV prevention.
Three Cope sources confirmed that the Mvume Dandala was about to hand in his resignation when Shilowa convinced him to reconsider.
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/ 28 January 2010
The fight for leadership at Cope has finally been thrown into the open, with a pro-Mosiuoa Lekota group circulating a list of preferred leaders.
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/ 22 January 2010
The ANC admits that “something is bound to give” if tensions between it and the South African Communist Party are not defused.
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/ 15 January 2010
Reports from Schabir Shaik’s doctors appear to have been misinterpreted, leading to his parole.
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/ 15 January 2010
Battle lines have been drawn between Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan and her detractors in Cabinet and in black business circles.
Some provinces call for early elective conference to disband leadership and end party’s paralysis.
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/ 23 December 2009
This Christmas secret talks aimed at a truce between warring alliance partners will occupy comrades who are anxious to ensure peace.
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/ 18 December 2009
Hostility towards the left grows in the ANC following the booing of Julius Malema by delegates at the SACP’s special conference in Polokwane last week
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/ 18 December 2009
The Congress of the People has failed to consolidate its membership since the April election, with surveys suggesting a drop of more than 5%.
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/ 13 December 2009
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday read the riot act to ANC-led tripartite alliance partners during his address to the SACP’s second special congress.
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/ 9 December 2009
The SACP may amend its constitution to allow general secretary Blade Nzimande to continue holding his position and also serve in the SA Cabinet.
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/ 27 November 2009
The SACP looks set to retain Blade Nzimande as general secretary — despite the fact that he is higher education minister.
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/ 6 November 2009
The office of the public protector is to recover R90 000 in leave pay given illegally to former public protector Lawrence Mushwana.
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/ 18 October 2009
SA’s military trade unions allege that the government is trying to get rid of them after the department demanded evidence of their membership numbers.
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/ 26 September 2009
The mood at the congress had been contentment: the militancy that was tangible at the last congress appeared to have gone.
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/ 23 September 2009
Remember when I was introduced to you on my first day? Many of you had somehow managed to forget me after working with me for a year.
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/ 9 September 2009
Apartheid victims suing international companies for “aiding and abetting” will consider turning down an out-of-court settlement.
North West Auditor General Douglas Maphiri and four other officials in his office have been suspended following corruption allegations against them.
Lack of municipal capacity and poor communication by government officials are key contributors to the surge of recent service delivery protests.
Defiant members of disbanded committees prepare to fight for their former positions in North West and Western Cape.
Veteran ANC activist and former MP Kader Asmal has accused Parliament of having no interest in his review of Chapter 9 institutions.
Listening to leaders of the Congress of the People denying that there is a leadership tussle within the party is becoming annoying.
The Congress of the People have "co-opted" the former deputy president of the country, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, into its national leadership.