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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.
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.
New Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi reported for work on Thursday.
The aftershocks from Thabo Mbeki’s sacking continue to reverberate through South Africa.
Zwelinzima Vavi’s statements of Cosatu’s views on post-Thabo Mbeki economic policy, recently published in the M&G, are of great importance.
Two strikingly different speeches — one saying goodbye, and the other saying hello. Two moods and two different styles.
Beatrice Marshoff remains Free State premier for now, but has been advised that she must leave her post, provincial party officials said on Wednesday.
An ageing Nelson Mandela’s voluntary departure from the presidency in 1999 was a great moment.
Lev David: I’m not panicking. We’re fine for now. And, just in case, we’re stocking up on tinned food, the way we did in ’94.
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/ 30 September 2008
The replacement of the premiers of Limpopo and Free State was not discussed at an NWC meeting, party spokesperson Brian Sokhutu said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 September 2008
Humble leaders would have considered it an honour to walk in Madiba’s shoes, but not Mbeki.
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/ 30 September 2008
The axing of Thabo Mbeki has triggered a sense of disorientation and terror in the hearts of the middle classes, both white and black.
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/ 29 September 2008
The Limpopo ANCYL will do ”everything in its power to smash” the formation of any party formed in support of Thabo Mbeki, it announced on Monday.
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/ 29 September 2008
Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa has resigned. He told reporters on Monday that he had informed provincial party leadership of this in the morning.
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/ 29 September 2008
One of the things that former President Thabo Mbeki got right during his term was his relationship with and role on the African continent.
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/ 29 September 2008
One faction claims to have been left out, the other sees it as having defected.
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/ 29 September 2008
The stand-in president is one of the only people who can heal the party’s wounds.
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/ 29 September 2008
It is difficult, when punched in the guts, to take a deep breath, although air is what you most fervently desire.
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/ 28 September 2008
ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete says disgruntled party members who plan to start their own movement are wasting their energy.
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/ 28 September 2008
The former president is doing everything he can to undo the damage the Nicholson judgement caused to his reputation.
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/ 28 September 2008
Zuma has confirmed that it was Motlanthe’s beard, and his ability to stroke it in a reassuring manner, that won him the coveted position.
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/ 28 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma lived up to his promise of a more inclusive ANC last weekend, allowing majority opinion on President Thabo Mbeki’s future.
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/ 27 September 2008
ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Saturday the new government would focus on fighting crime and poverty.
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/ 27 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma on Saturday condemned the media, some political parties and analysts for portraying that there was a crisis in the country.
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/ 27 September 2008
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad has resigned, his department announced on Saturday.