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/ 6 November 2009
The Freedom Front Plus was divided over its leader’s appointment to executive, writes Mandy Rossouw.
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/ 30 October 2009
The evidence of dysfunctionality at local government level is the service delivery protests emerging everywhere — almost in a coordinated fashion.
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/ 30 October 2009
Nationalising the mines is just the first step for the ANC Youth League. Matuma Letsoalo spoke to league secretary general, Vuyiswa Tulelo.
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/ 13 October 2009
The ANC will continue to determine, within its own structures, how best to advance its strategic objectives, the tripartite alliance has resolved.
The DA said it would give Cope until June next year to show its commitment to a possible coalition.
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/ 22 September 2009
It’s been pretty clear over the past few weeks that SA’s Rainbow Nation is still paying the price for papering over its differences and cracks.
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/ 21 September 2009
Richard Calland’s open letter to the minister in the presidency: national planning, Trevor Manuel.
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/ 11 September 2009
Not so long ago the ANC leadership saw it as a duty to enact that law, however unpopular it might have been, but that seems to have changed.
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/ 7 September 2009
Jacob Zuma’s visit to Angola did much to warm relations between the two countries, but some things were left unsaid.
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/ 3 September 2009
SA opposition parties have started talks on an alliance aimed at challenging the ANC in local polls in 2011, but they face an uphill struggle.
The struggles have divided the party into two camps, one supporting interim president Mosiuoa Lekota, the other his deputy, Mbhazima Shilowa.
Mbalula’s call for Zuma to serve a second term as ANC president is the first by a senior national executive committee member.
Congress of the People (Cope) second deputy president Lynda Odendaal on Tuesday resigned from both the party and Parliament.
Alleged political instability may require intervention at a higher level. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports .
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The structure will have the power to recommend to Cosatu’s central executive committee to recall those who fail to pursue a working-class agenda.
There’s no blueprint, but a slow-burn ”organic” realignment of opposition parties, led by the Democratic Alliance, has begun.
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Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has embarked on a campaign to build branches for his party in preparation for the 2011 local government elections.
Mandy Rossouw and Matuma Letsoalo report on an emerging battle that could characterise Zuma’s presidency.
Under Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s relations with the outside world were dictated by a combination of economic opportunism and anti-imperialist posturi
We are back to watching the familiar spectacle of the ANC and its alliance partners at each other’s throats over this and that.
Violence against women and the oppression of women have little to do with men’s confusion about their sexuality or their sense of sexual entitlement.
Perhaps after years of so much suppressed anger in this society, getting a bit more of it out into the open might not be an entirely bad thing
The ANC has identified the Congress of the People as the main threat to the ruling party in the 2011 local government elections.
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.