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/ 20 November 2008
Jacob Zuma has nothing to do with an application to change the date of the appeal against the dismissal of his corruption charges, his lawyer says.
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/ 20 November 2008
The deadline for breakaway party Cope to respond to a demand from the ANC that it stops using the name Congress of the People expires on Thursday.
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/ 20 November 2008
People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not - there’s no alternative.”
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/ 20 November 2008
Bantu Holomisa elicited frenzied cheering at Cope’s recent national convention, underscoring his continued popularity with disaffected black voters.
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/ 19 November 2008
ANC’s vision of a developmental state is detrimental to the poor, the unemployed and the politically unconnected.
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/ 19 November 2008
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
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/ 18 November 2008
The ANC has served legal papers on Mosuioa Lekota’s breakaway party for using the name Congress of the People (Cope), officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 November 2008
Rumours that a KZN minister is expected to resign from the ANC on Tuesday and join Cope is ”a blatant lie”, a Cope provincial coordinator says.
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/ 18 November 2008
Marianne Thamm, Open Society Research Fellow for 2008, reports on new electoral volatility that poses a threat to the ANC’s overwhelming majority.
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/ 18 November 2008
South Africans are not overwhelmingly preoccupied with affirming their racial identities in their voting behaviour, a study has found.
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/ 18 November 2008
"What mobilised people for Zuma was the way he was fired as deputy president. People think it was done because he’s a Zulu".
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/ 18 November 2008
It is a mystery why we spend billions financing 20 universities if we have to rely on Harvard professors to advise on macroeconomic strategy.
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/ 17 November 2008
The ANC is in the process of raising concerns with the IEC over Cope’s name, ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus said on Monday.
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/ 17 November 2008
The Congress of the People aims to be a progressive party of the left.
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/ 16 November 2008
The ANC is scrambling to replace SABC board members with an interim board that will be more sympathetic to the party in the run-up to the election.
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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
Mosiuoa Lekota should focus on policies and stop aggravating ordinary party members by ”urinating” on the ANC, the party’s KZN secretary general says.
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/ 14 November 2008
The Congress of the People (Cope) submitted an application to be registered as a political party on Friday, its spokesperson said.
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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
There are cheering signs of a resurgent interest and excitement among ordinary people, and next year could see the most absorbing elections since ’94.
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/ 14 November 2008
Retired Constitutional Court Judge Johann Kriegler gives his view on Judge Chris Nicholson’s ruling on the corruption charges against Jacob Zuma.
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/ 13 November 2008
There are now more than 21,6-million South Africans on the Independent Electoral Commission’s voters’ roll.
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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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/ 12 November 2008
More than 21,6-million South Africans have registered to vote in the 2009 election, the IEC said on Wednesday.
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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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/ 10 November 2008
The entire post-1994 ANC leadership is to blame for the state of affairs.
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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
What are the ”progressive values of our Constitution”? Human dignity, equality and freedom. This is not what politicians say with changing agendas.
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/ 9 November 2008
Everybody knows about Mosiuoa Lekota, Mbhazima Shilowa and Mluleki George. But who are the other leading lights in the Shikota movement?
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/ 7 November 2008
The website of the IEC was ”clogged” by more than 180 000 visits to the site before noon on Friday, the commission said.