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/ 16 October 2008
The ANC may call an early general election to try to undermine plans by former party officials to form a breakaway group, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 15 October 2008
The ANC not divided right down the middle, said party leader Jacob Zuma in a television interview on Wednesday evening.
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/ 15 October 2008
Mbhazima Shilowa was sharply criticised by the tripartite alliance on Wednesday, while Jacob Zuma prepared to discuss the breakaway movement on TV.
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/ 15 October 2008
The rumoured breakaway party by former African National Congress chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota is unlikely to give the ANC sleepless nights.
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/ 15 October 2008
Former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa has tendered his resignation from the ANC, its spokesperson Jessie Duarte said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
A special meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee will be convened on Wednesday to discuss the suspension of Mosiuoa Lekota.
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/ 15 October 2008
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille offers some advice to Mosiuoa Lekota on how to launch a new party.
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/ 14 October 2008
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the Eastern Cape has distanced itself from statements made by members in support of Mosiuoa Lekota.
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/ 14 October 2008
Northern Cape ANC dissidents say an overwhelming majority of the party’s branches in the province are ready to listen to Mosiuoa Lekota.
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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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/ 14 October 2008
Former ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota will receive a letter ”soon” informing him of his suspension from the ruling party, a spokesperson says.
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/ 14 October 2008
Former ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota met the news of the suspension of his party membership with disbelief on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2008
The ANC has suspended former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota after he threatened to form a breakaway party, it said on Monday.
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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.
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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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/ 13 October 2008
Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.
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/ 12 October 2008
A simple ”yes” or ”no” from Mosiuoa Lekota would have sufficed, or ”something of that nature”, writes Richard Calland.
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/ 12 October 2008
Former ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota has urged South Africans to help defend the Constitution against attacks by new ruling-party leaders.
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/ 12 October 2008
The former premier does not believe that a party based on protest will work, reports Rapule Tabane.
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/ 11 October 2008
The law prohibits the registration of political parties whose names or logos are too similar to those of other parties, says the IEC.
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/ 11 October 2008
As the banana splits and the monkeys come home to roost, a key debate is likely to be who owns the ANC brand.
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/ 11 October 2008
A split from the ANC? Forget it. The time is not right for a split and any new initiative will fail.
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/ 10 October 2008
The new political formation planned by former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota is off to a rocky start with supporters at odds over whether to stay.
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/ 10 October 2008
Like Lekota, thousands of ANC members and millions of potential voters feel they have grounds for divorce from the party, but for different reasons.
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/ 10 October 2008
Former deputy minister of defence Mluleki George is a key driver of the campaign for a new party. He spoke to Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 10 October 2008
The new ‘coalition of the wounded’ will frighten but not dislodge the ANC at next year’s polls.
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/ 10 October 2008
‘There are lots of nuts in the ANC who shoot their mouths off’, Pallo Jordan tells Mandy Rossouw.
Former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota electrified the nation on Wednesday when he signalled his intention to form a "congress".
The African National Congress Youth League is not concerned by the possible formation of a ”right-wing” political party by disgruntled ANC members.
The ANC’s Mosiuoa Lekota, who has announced the possibility of a breakaway party, did not show up for a meeting with ANC leaders on Thursday.
Efforts to form a breakaway from the ANC are gaining momentum, but analysts say the new party still needs to recruit nationally recognised leaders.