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/ 15 November 2008
The Congress of People (Cope) was ready to contest the elections in 2009, Mbhazima Shilowa, the party’s deputy chairperson, said on Saturday.
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/ 15 November 2008
While Mosiuoa Lekota’s Cope movement has yet to launch and the DA is relaunching this weekend, Zuma has hit the ground running.
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/ 14 November 2008
The ANC is not threatened by the new political party formed by dissidents, its policy committee chairperson, Jeff Radebe, said on Friday.
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/ 14 November 2008
A meeting that was scheduled to be addressed by Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota was disrupted by hundreds of ANC supporters, news reports said on Friday.
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/ 14 November 2008
Former ANC communications chief Smuts Ngonyama has slammed a report that his secretary was a spy for the Cope breakaway party.
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/ 13 November 2008
Smuts Ngonyama said he had resigned from the ANC because he was no longer able to tolerate the recent disrespect of authority in the party.
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/ 13 November 2008
Former African National Congress (ANC) communications chief Smuts Ngonyama will resign from the ruling party on Thursday, he said.
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/ 11 November 2008
The ANC’s economic policies are going to change, the party’s secretary general Gwede Mantashe told businessmen in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
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/ 11 November 2008
The ANC will oppose the name of a breakaway party, the Congress of the People (COP), led by Mosiuoa Lekota, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 November 2008
Personality politics is so painful to watch when politicians assume their personalities are anything other than unbearable.
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/ 11 November 2008
The ANC has rejected claims that it is delaying its list process to avoid mass resignations by supporters of former president Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 10 November 2008
The M&G quizzed the troops of both the ANC and Shikota on why they had chosen their respective political directions.
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/ 10 November 2008
The ANC said it was still waiting for the real masters of the new political formation, the Congress of the People, to show their faces.
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/ 7 November 2008
A leader of the ANC breakaway movement, former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa, on Thursday unveiled the name of the new party.
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/ 6 November 2008
Trade unions need to stand together against ”unscrupulous politicians”, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday.
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/ 4 November 2008
A mass gathering to provide feedback to African National Congress members in the Free State is planned for December 16 in Bloemfontein.
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/ 4 November 2008
The ANC breakaway group will meet again on Tuesday to find a name to use for by-elections in December.
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/ 3 November 2008
Launching a new political party was never going to be easy, but need it be as difficult as this?
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/ 3 November 2008
Six prominent Eastern Cape ANC leaders, including ousted premier Nosimo Balindlela, have quit the ANC.
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/ 3 November 2008
South Africa’s most competitive election race since 1994 has taken off and it will be fought around one man: ANC president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 3 November 2008
African National Congress splinter group leaders who recently served the ruling party with ”divorce papers” are guilty of bigamy, says Jacob Zuma.
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/ 2 November 2008
The national convention got under way in Sandton on the weekend. Some of those who attended give their views on what a new movement means to them.
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/ 2 November 2008
ANC head Jacob Zuma hit back at Mosiuoa Lekota on Sunday, describing him and his supporters as ”snakes” who had long been plotting against the ANC.
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/ 2 November 2008
ANC members who have been working ”underground” for the new party that is due to be launched will now come out and publicly support this party.
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/ 2 November 2008
Dissidents in the ANC said on Sunday they want to win next year’s general election, as they move to launch a new party to rival the ANC.
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/ 2 November 2008
The Shikota movement on Saturday declared its intention to launch a new political party that will rival the ANC during the 2009 elections.
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/ 1 November 2008
A declaration setting out the aims of the SA National Convention was adopted at the conclusion of the meeting of mainly ANC dissidents on Saturday.
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/ 1 November 2008
After weeks of tension between the ANC and a breakaway group unhappy with the ANC, a national convention got under way on Saturday.
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/ 1 November 2008
Opposition parties came out in support of the national convention on Saturday, praising the initiative as historical and a significant step.
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/ 1 November 2008
Mosiuoa Lekota on Saturday opened the national convention by warning that the country was in danger of reverting back to an ”apartheid-era style”.
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/ 1 November 2008
Organisers of the two-day national convention faced a setback on Saturday morning with the cancellation at the last minute of their overflow venue.
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/ 1 November 2008
The national convention gets under way at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday morning, with about 4 000 delegates expected to attend.