Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
All the African National Congress’s provincial branches are internally divided between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma supporters.
The Western Cape and Eastern Cape branches are still reeling from the pro-Zuma leadership’s sacking this year of their pro-Mbeki Premiers, Ebrahim Rasool and Nosimo Balindlela. On ...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Four leading ANC figures will split from the ANC to start a new party with Mosiuoa Lekota
Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota, born in 1948 in Kroonstad, Free State, is from the same political generation as Cyril Ramaphosa, Tokyo Sexwale, Mathews Phosa and Kgalema Motlanthe. They a...
Vol 49 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Motlanthe has a tough mandate: to heal a broken party and hold back an economic downturn
The soft-spoken Kgalema Motlanthe, elevated from the Deputy Presidency of the African National Congress to the Presidency of South Africa, faces a tough job. Amid bitterness, Thabo...
Vol 49 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
He may have preferred to coach Bafana Bafana, but Kgalema Motlanthe is now Acting President of South Africa
In 1997, the quiet, unassuming but cerebral Kgalema Motlanthe was nominated by the left wing of the African National Congress tripartite alliance as ANC General Secretary, as a pro...
Vol 49 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The ousting of Thabo Mbeki has divided the ANC
Baleka Mbete, Chairwoman of the African National Congress, says: ‘anybody who is thinking of going off and forming another party is wasting their energy’. Gwede Mantashe, the ANC’s...
Vol 49 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
President Mbeki's supporters have accepted that it is 99% certain that Jacob Zuma will be South Africa's next President
As President Thabo Mbeki claims a rare success in promoting cooperation between the rivals in neighbouring Zimbabwe, the Jacob Zuma-dominated ANC leadership is deciding whether to ...
Vol 49 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Acting Judge Chris Nicholson’s bitterest swipe was his comparison of President Thabo Mbeki’s campaign to sideline rival Jacob Zuma to that of apartheid governments using legislatio...
Vol 49 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
It is a testing time for the judiciary as it prepares for the
trial of African National Congress President Jacob Zuma. His supporters
say the trial is politically motivated and want the charges of
corruption, money laundering and racketeering thrown out. Obstacles
to the prosecution are being sought and threats issued to those
judges pressing ahead with the trial. The outcome will determine
who in the ANC will stand for election as the next President of
South Africa.
Jacob Zuma, having won the election for the presidency of the ruling African National Congress, wants to win next year's election for the presidency of South Africa. He would almos...
Vol 49 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Chief Justice Pius Langa: The head of the Constitutional Court and of the Judicial Commission from rural Limpopo Province worked as a labourer in a shirt factory and studied law by...
Vol 49 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala studied at the Universities of Fort Hare and Natal. He lost many pro-African National Congress President Jacob Zuma friends by choosin...
