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/ 18 October 2008
Trade union supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma scored a victory this week by toppling one of former president Thabo Mbeki’s most vocal supporters.
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/ 18 October 2008
Compelling as it may be, getting too absorbed in the intrigue of palace politics and personalities will lead us away from clarity in this crisis.
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/ 17 October 2008
You can’t have it both ways, Mbeki tells Zuma in Concourt papers. Adriaan Basson reports.
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/ 17 October 2008
In a month our health regime has moved from folly and despair to hope and commitment. With a mandate for change from health minister Barbara Hogan.
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/ 15 October 2008
The ANC not divided right down the middle, said party leader Jacob Zuma in a television interview on Wednesday evening.
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/ 15 October 2008
It is problematic that the country’s president appoints the national director of public prosecution, says suspended NPA boss Vusi Pikoli.
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/ 15 October 2008
A special meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee will be convened on Wednesday to discuss the suspension of Mosiuoa Lekota.
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/ 15 October 2008
Thabo Mbeki has little leverage to push Zimbabwe’s feuding parties to agreement, having lost his clout as leader of the region’s most powerful state.
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/ 15 October 2008
Like many people,Ronald Suresh Roberts may think Thabo Mbeki’s dissident views on Aids ”flat earth crap”.
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/ 14 October 2008
Thabo Mbeki has filed a responding affidavit to papers filed by the NPA opposing his court bid against parts of the recent Jacob Zuma judgement.
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/ 14 October 2008
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki prepared to hold talks on Tuesday with Zimbabwe’s political rivals in a bid to save a flagging power-sharing deal.
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/ 14 October 2008
A week is a long time in politics, it is said, and late June already feels like ancient history.
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/ 13 October 2008
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki was set to fly to Zimbabwe on Monday in a last-ditch bid to save a power-sharing deal.
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/ 12 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader has threatened to pull out of a power-sharing deal if Robert Mugabe moved ahead with plans to take key ministries.
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/ 11 October 2008
President Robert Mugabe has laid claim to all key Cabinet posts and Zimbabwe’s powerful state security apparatus.
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/ 11 October 2008
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern about the impasse in a Zimbabwe power-sharing accord.
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/ 11 October 2008
A split from the ANC? Forget it. The time is not right for a split and any new initiative will fail.
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/ 10 October 2008
Like Lekota, thousands of ANC members and millions of potential voters feel they have grounds for divorce from the party, but for different reasons.
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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.
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