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/ 11 February 2012
Sudan and South Sudan signed a security agreement which aims to defuse tensions over oil payments which officials had warned could spark a war.
The appeals committee ruling has failed to clear the air and uncertainty surrounding Julius Malema’s future with the organisation.
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/ 3 February 2012
Zuma looking to China for infrastructure development.
The recent and sudden revision of Thabo Mbeki’s place in history reminds Charles Leonard of the re-evaluation of jazz legend Miles Davis’s legacy
Three years after the "palace coup" that saw him leave office, opinions are divided on whether Thabo Mbeki should return to active domestic politics.
Thabo Mbeki’s scepticism of social media’s role in democracy may seem outdated but the fact is there’s a lot of nonsense floating around online.
The state has dismissed claims President Zuma has asked the navy to acquire a $500-million aircraft carrier, saying it was an aborted Mbeki-era plan.
Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups’ agendas.
The Democratic Alliance’s bid to overturn the dropping of corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma is critical to the ANC’s succession race.
The on-again, off-again relationship between Julius Malema and Thabo Mbeki has played itself out like a soap opera or a lovelorn teenager on Facebook.
Thabo Mbeki’s office says it has not yet received a call from the ANC Youth League to meet after Julius Malema said he would be requesting one.
Accreditation for the ANC’s centenary festivities, seen as a preview of the party’s elective congressin December, is off to a smooth start.
After a two-year hiatus from politics, former president Thabo Mbeki has confirmed he will attend the ANC’s centenary celebrations in Mangaung.
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/ 21 December 2011
President Jacob Zuma has appointed deputy national director of public prosecutions, advocate Nomvula Mokhatla as the new acting head of the SIU.
Advocate Willem Heath says the impression that the head of the Special Investigating Unit was partisan could undermine the unit’s work.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says South Africans deserve to know facts about the country’s history which are not yet public knowledge.
There was mixed reaction from parties over the resignation of newly-appointed SIU head Willem Heath, with the ANC saying it was "regrettable".
Former NDPP Bulelani Ngcuka has commended Willem Heath’s resignation as SIU head, saying the move was in the best interests of the country and SIU.
Willem Heath has resigned as head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) after filling the role for less than a month.
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/ 15 December 2011
The rows over Mac Maharaj and Willem Heath are a new phase in an old war between the acolytes of Thabo Mbeki and the minds behind Operation Vula.
The ANC has confirmed media reports that it would support Zanu-PF in the 2012 general elections, saying it would benefit all Zimbabweans.
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/ 10 December 2011
The presidency has distanced itself from the comments made by SIU head Willem Heath, saying they were made in his personal capacity.
Contrary to reports, Tokyo Sexwale and Kgalema Motlanthe still have a case to answer for the the parts they played in the Oilgate scandal.
Thabo Mbeki has demanded evidence of allegations that newly appointed SIU head Willem Heath had initiated two criminal cases against Jacob Zuma.
The Donen report on allegations of illicit activities in the UN’s Iraq oil for food programme has found that no South African law was broken.
The writings and speeches of Mbeki (well, some of them) have become the subject of a new experimental play.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says recent events in Libya should raise alarm bells about the threat to Africa’s hard won right to self-determination.
Kgalema Motlanthe and Tokyo Sexwale are deeply unhappy about President Jacob Zuma’s decision to release the Donen report into the Oilgate scandal.
The timing of President Zuma’s release of the Oilgate report has raised eyebrows, as it is said to implicate his rivals for the ANC presidency.
President Jacob Zuma will release the report on the involvement of South Africans in the Iraq oil-for-food programme in December.
Government says it has not made a decision yet on the number of nuclear power stations to be built or which vendors would be used for such projects.
South African cement giant Afrisam is at the centre of a war between local and international investors.