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/ 26 September 2008
Cabinet releases policy review that came after hoax saga. Sam Sole and Nic Dawes report.
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/ 26 September 2008
Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 25 September 2008
The deputy president of the ANC, Kgalema Motlanthe, was elected president of South Africa in the National Assembly on Thursday.
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/ 25 September 2008
Local political risk will continue to dominate the rand, Jacques Du Preez of RMB said on Thursday.
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/ 25 September 2008
SA’s third post-apartheid president is set to be sworn into office on Thursday after the dramatic toppling of Thabo Mbeki by his own party.
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/ 22 September 2008
The chief whip of the ANC told Parliament on Monday the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki should take effect in three days.
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/ 22 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma was quickly whisked away after the inauguration of the Gandhi-Luthuli Chair of Peace Studies at the UKZN.
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/ 22 September 2008
Ranjeni Munusamy asks how the media could have missed the signs of a political conspiracy against Jacob Zuma.
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/ 21 September 2008
The success of the Jacob Zuma application took many by surprise. To be fair, the lengthy and reasoned judgement is hardly without legal controversy.
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/ 21 September 2008
The IEC is using April 14 as the expected election day, but the final date will have to be announced by President Thabo Mbeki.
In 2005, clearly, Mbeki was strong and Zuma weak. The shoe is now firmly on the other foot.
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/ 19 September 2008
We shouldn’t have to repeat this, but we will: Judge Chris Nicholson made no finding on the guilt or innocence of Jacob Zuma, and he said so himself.
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/ 19 September 2008
Last week’s judgement in the Jacob Zuma corruption trial has several potentially far-reaching implications.
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/ 16 September 2008
The South African Communist Party has taken a swipe at senior ANC members who left the army to make money from arms sales.
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/ 15 September 2008
Drop Zuma charges, say ANC war veterans, or face social and economic turmoil.
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/ 14 September 2008
With celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the UDF barely over, another broad-based, left-leaning civil society grouping having been launched.
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/ 14 September 2008
Gwede Mantashe insists Cosatu and SACP members will share 20% of places on the ANC election lists.
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/ 12 September 2008
The projection of an argument for a legal or political settlement of the Zuma case is a caricature and an instance of intolerance.
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/ 11 September 2008
When the political will to deal with elite crimes falters, a culture of impunity takes hold.
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/ 11 September 2008
In the first of a two-part series, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, argues that capital must be disciplined.
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/ 9 September 2008
The M&G has become useful to those who are worried about the growing influence of the working class and the poor on ANC policies.
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/ 6 September 2008
The league’s membership has dropped dramatically over the past four years, from more than 500 000 to 317 000.
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/ 6 September 2008
Delegates to the Greater KwaDukuza conference allegedly received preferential treatment, depending on who they supported.
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/ 5 September 2008
President Thabo Mbeki presided over a rather grey administration.The groupthink he encouraged has been disastrous for our country.
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/ 3 September 2008
Embattled ANC president Jacob Zuma has drawn support from a rather surprising quarter — the born-again National Party.
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/ 2 September 2008
Pitched battles between different factions of the ANC in the Northern Cape delayed the start of the party’s provincial conference last week.
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/ 1 September 2008
Two senior ANC officials in the Western Cape are being investigated for allegedly doctoring and then leaking a party audit.
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/ 1 September 2008
The independence of the judiciary is generally regarded as being an essential component of democratic government. There should be no doubt about this.
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/ 1 September 2008
We must assert the truth in a rational manner and refrain from using exaggerated language in so doing.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
The event in question was the launch of the Post-Polokwane Conversations, a series of "round table discussions" beginning in Durban.
The party’s 2009 election strategy begins in earnest this weekend and it will need to surmount numerous internal battles.