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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.
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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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/ 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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/ 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
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
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
The new ‘coalition of the wounded’ will frighten but not dislodge the ANC at next year’s polls.