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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.
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/ 31 October 2008
A court has postponed an ANC bid for an urgent interdict to stop the use of the name ”South African National Convention”, the party said on Friday.
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/ 31 October 2008
The ANC has applied for an urgent court interdict to stop the name being used by the ANC breakaway movement, dissidents said on Friday.
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/ 31 October 2008
SA will stand a better chance of ending poverty if the country maintains free-market policies, Mosiuoa Lekota said on Friday.
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/ 31 October 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma urged ANC members on Friday to remain steadfast in the principles and traditions of the movement.
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/ 31 October 2008
Suspended ANC veteran Mosiua Lekota, who is expecting to launch a breakaway party, has resigned from the ruling party, a spokesperson said on Friday.
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/ 31 October 2008
”Shikota” has been selling the meetings as a platform to find ways of ensuring that democracy is protected.
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/ 31 October 2008
It began in a bakery. Mbhazima Shilowa tells
Mandy Rossouw and Mmanaledi Mataboge about his kickstart plans for a new party.
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/ 30 October 2008
The national convention to be held this weekend is about constitutional principles the leadership of the ANC has moved away from, Mosiuoa Lekota says.
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/ 30 October 2008
The ANC is bracing for a potentially bruising split on Saturday as dissidents open a convention to prepare to launch a rival party.
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/ 29 October 2008
Suspended former ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota will not resign from the party because that will look like he is running away, he said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 October 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma said ”angry people” would not ”misdirect” the ruling party from its mission to improve lives, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 28 October 2008
Former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa has called for political tolerance in the run-up for to the formation of the new political party.
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/ 27 October 2008
Terror Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa on Monday invited the SA public to attend their national convention to be held on the weekend.
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/ 27 October 2008
Public servants, such as teachers, healthcare workers, policemen and women are (or should be) a valued part of any developmental effort.
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/ 26 October 2008
Wednesday afternoon at the Rhema Mthatha Christian Church and people are throwing their ANC membership cards into a box placed in front of the stage.
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/ 26 October 2008
As Lekota calls for a return to the old ANC, South Africa may just be witnessing the second coming of the old Terror Lekota.
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/ 24 October 2008
UDM leader Bantu Holomisa on Friday condemned reports that ANC members tried to disrupt a public meeting hosted by Terror Lekota.
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/ 24 October 2008
Efforts to disrupt campaigning by the
breakaway movement are in full swing, writes Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 23 October 2008
Ripping up pictures of ANC leader Jacob Zuma, backers of a new breakaway movement sought to drum up support in Gauteng on Thursday.
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/ 22 October 2008
Counterpoint: Power over the budget means power over resources and therefore power over the scope and implementation of policy.
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/ 22 October 2008
Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff on Wednesday announced four changes to her provincial cabinet.
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/ 22 October 2008
Point: Will the ANC, mindful of the real power that it is vesting in MPs, be more careful who it sends to Cape Town?
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/ 21 October 2008
Wednesday October 8 was probably the worst day the United Democratic Movement could have chosen to launch its campaign.
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/ 21 October 2008
The season of red herrings, kite-flying and cat-and-mouse games is back with us in the political landscape.
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/ 21 October 2008
Julius Malema’s rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.
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/ 20 October 2008
Mature leadership requires the implementation of the post-Polokwane pledge of reconciliation and inclusivity.
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/ 19 October 2008
It was not surprising to see that the two conferences of the ANC this past weekend in Cape Town did their combating through song.