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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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/ 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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/ 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.
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/ 7 November 2008
There have been more resignations from the ANC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Friday.
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/ 7 November 2008
Political parties across the spectrum agreed on Friday to promote tolerance, particularly in the build-up to next year’s election.
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/ 7 November 2008
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has rejected DA leader Helen Zille’s offer to engage him in a public debate.
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/ 7 November 2008
In the aftermath of the ANC decision to recall former president Thabo Mbeki, one of the most serious warnings was sounded by his brother.
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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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/ 6 November 2008
Beyond all political posturing, let’s be clear: A vast majority of ANC members are not gloating about the dissolution of the Scorpions.
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/ 5 November 2008
Millions of South Africans are expected to register this weekend for the 2009 elections, the country’s electoral authorities said on Wednesday.
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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?