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This measure, aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19, may shortly be introduced in other regions.
Four children died at Pretoria sites in just two weeks, but companies deny they’re to blame
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/ 27 October 2010
The tepid statement made by the Hawks reveals the pitfalls of creeping hegemonic power.
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/ 22 October 2010
Zanele Magwaza-Msibi seems set to go the way of other party dissenters.
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/ 15 September 2009
Elements in the IFP and its youth brigade see the postponement of the national elective conference as a delaying tactic.
The IFP on Monday rejected a call by ANC president Jacob Zuma for the two parties to merge.
A committee has been established in KwaZulu-Natal in the hopes of ”defusing tensions” between the ANC and the opposition IFP.
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/ 28 January 2009
Claims by the African National Congress that it had never disrupted Inkatha Freedom Party meetings were ludicrous, the IFP charged on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
South African political parties have spoken out against political intolerance and violence ahead of next year’s general elections.
The election fodder was wheeled out for a photo-opportunity at the Inkatha Freedom Party’s offices in downtown Durban this week.
South Africa’s opposition parties are failing to cash in on the infighting in the ANC, a recent survey indicates.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is arranging a series of protests to stop the use of a grade 12 history book it describes as ”biased propaganda … poisoning the minds of children”. National protest organiser Albert Mncwango said on Tuesday that the book, titled In Search of History, is currently being used by schools throughout South Africa.
It is a matter of hours to go before voting stations open for Saturday’s elections in Zimbabwe. The Mail & Guardian Online spoke to South African political parties and NGOs ahead of the controversial poll. ”Mugabe will rule again. It would be a miracle if he didn’t,” said the Inkatha Freedom Party’s Musa Zondi.
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/ 23 January 2008
Hard labour for hardened convicts was one of the proposals presented at the launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) Purpose, Vision and Values Programme in Durban on Wednesday. Addressing the issue of crime in the country, the IFP’s Stan Larkan told the more than 3 000 delegates that ”hard labour needs to be introduced”.
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/ 14 December 2007
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A Jacob Zuma-led African National Congress will have a major impact in KwaZulu-Natal, analysts and politicians in the province said on Friday. They agreed the ANC’s popularity in the province would increase at the expense of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) if Zuma was elected the party’s new leader in Polokwane next week.
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/ 31 October 2007
The continuing succession debate in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should focus more on devising strategies to manage the change of leadership and less on bashing party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi over perceptions that he is clinging to power, argues Zukile Majova.
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/ 1 September 2007
After all the drama of the court cases that preceded it, the floor-crossing window got off to a low-key start on Saturday. The only excitement was provided by a senior African Christian Democratic Party politician in the Western Cape, Johan Kriel, who accompanied his move to the Democratic Alliance (DA) with a blistering attack on ACDP leader, Kenneth Meshoe.
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/ 14 February 2003
Veteran politician Walter Felgate alleges the IFP leader ordered him to sabotage the 1994 election. Musa Zondi, MP and national spokesperson for the Inkatha Freedom Party responds…