With hindsight Mbeki must see that he donated this political support to his adversaries and lost his job as a result.
Tensions appear to be rising within the party following its dismal showing at the polls last month.
SACP chief and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has also raised the issue of Cope’s windfall from the Vodacom listing in alliance circles.
An ANC report says infighting and internal racial divisions drove away the coloured vote, reports Pearlie Joubert.
Thabo Mbeki lived in something of a racial hell, his skin constantly rubbed raw by the devils of colonialism and apartheid.
As a transport minister, accepting a gift from a group of road contractors Ndebele was risking seriously compromising himself.
The aftershocks of the IFP’s dismal showing in the general election are still reverberating through the party.
Nzimande’s move goes against the SACP constitution, which explicitly provides that the post of general secretary is full time.
Several events this week showed that despite the alleged maturity of our democracy race and sex still define who we are and how we see ourselves.
It’s a delicate time for the media as the new people in power consolidate their position.
Under president Thabo Mbeki, the private sector was disengaged and disenchanted, despite being included in several presidential working groups.
Although Zola Skweyiya has retired from Cabinet, he will always be a reminder to the ANC of its expected moral duty, writes Niren Tolsi.
According to the IFP, ordinary voters were tired of the ANC’s inability to develop, the rural areas especially.
Mario Oriani-Ambrosini has been IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s special adviser since the early Nineties, often at taxpayers’ expense.
The party’s money troubles have partly been addressed by the fact that it will have 30 paid MPs in the National Assembly.
Cosatu has asked ANC president Jacob Zuma to add two more of its leaders to his Cabinet to strengthen the left’s influence in government.
The ANC’s transition team is working on a plan to restructure the presidency to give it overall power over funding allocations.
That the press is out of kilter with the voting preferences of the majority of South Africans is not a bad thing for democracy.
The man frequently tipped to replace current National Prosecuting Authority head Mokotedi Mpshe is former Limpopo premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi.
Gauteng Health MEC Brian Hlongwa is too close to power and there are systemic problems with any attempt to cut graft, writes Ferial Haffajee.
Zuma tapped into the mood of the poor black majority, but they too will turn against him if he fails to deliver.
When it announced that about 50 ANC MPs would cross to Cope, the ANC went into panic mode.
It has been a brutal campaign, stretching back to the ANC’s Mafikeng conference in 1997, but Jacob Zuma can’t spend too much time taking victory laps.
As part of the Democracy 2009 series, the Mail & Guardian presents the guide for the elections.
Cope has its roots in the liberation movement, its supporters are the same township dwellers that have voted ANC in the past.
A Saturday morning some time in March and my Facebook news feed reflects the passions of South Africans: sport, politics and polemic.
Zackie Achmat unravels the inherent flaws in the drive for a two-thirds majority and tells why he’s still going to vote for the ruling party.
Acting chief’s judgment: an innocent oversight or blatant plagiarism? Adriaan Basson reports.
While Rajbansi remains confident about his hold on the Indian community, rebel ANC members would prefer the cat to be put down.
”Mbeki took the view that the only way South African could regain its stature was to take an intellectual and philosophical lead in Africa.”
The legal fraternity is uneasy after the ANC president’s recent comments.
Free State voters are underwhelmed by Cope, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.