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/ 18 October 2008
Compelling as it may be, getting too absorbed in the intrigue of palace politics and personalities will lead us away from clarity in this crisis.
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/ 18 October 2008
Trade union supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma scored a victory this week by toppling one of former president Thabo Mbeki’s most vocal supporters.
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/ 17 October 2008
Seven provinces could be split by the fracturing of the ANC. The three Capes — Western, Eastern and Northern — are ripe to split.
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/ 17 October 2008
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has a lot on her mind. With Evita Bezuidenhout registering her own political party, Mbete will have competition.
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/ 16 October 2008
The ANC has denied a report that some of its members may push for an early election to try to undermine plans by former members to form a breakaway.
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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
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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/ 14 October 2008
A week is a long time in politics, it is said, and late June already feels like ancient history.
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/ 14 October 2008
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Thembelihle Tshabalala asked ordinary South Africans to share their views on the possibility of a new political party.
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/ 14 October 2008
That word recession. We don’t want to hear it. Hairlines recede. Gumlines recede. We don’t recede. Not in the 21st century.
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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
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
The former premier does not believe that a party based on protest will work, reports Rapule Tabane.
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/ 12 October 2008
The growing flexibility of voter attitudes highlighted by research is good news for ANC rebels planning a new party to fight next year’s elections.
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/ 12 October 2008
The question should not be whether Zuma is good for Nigeria, but rather, whether a president Zuma can afford to call the bluff of the Nigerian govt.
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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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/ 11 October 2008
Boesak’s announcement coincides with the launch of the Social Justice Coalition by another UDF talwart, Aids activist Zackie Achmat.
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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
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
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.
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.
The ANC has taken a magnanimous stance to threats by Mosiuoa Lekota to form his own party, but Jacob Zuma made it clear that patience is wearing thin.
Mbeki was quintessential ANC, an integral and very key member, an arch-propagandist who embodied and expressed its spirit of democratic centralism.
The political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Monday he was ”hurting” about the conditions that led to him to say he would not vote were an election held today.
By this time next year Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will most likely not be in office, writes Ferial Haffajee.
What qualifies Baleka Mbete for her new job as deputy president? Her record as National Assembly speaker suggests she can get things done.