Vol 56 No 25 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Two respected ANC veterans and lifelong stalwarts Ben Turok and Barbara Hogan the partner of one of the late President Nelson Mandela's closest associates on Robben Island Ahmed Kathrada called on Zuma to resign...
While the 2014 general elections showed that the ANC was losing support in key cities such as Johannesburg Pretoria and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape the party's support in the rural areas is still solid and Zuma and his allies have been working hard to make sure that remains so...
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Vol 56 No 25 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The party has set its sights on winning the major metropolitan municipalities of Johannesburg and Tshwane (Pretoria) in Gauteng and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape...
Solly Msimanga who campaigns around Pretoria in a van is the DA candidate for mayor of the Tshwane Metro Council and Maimane's Eastern Cape ally Athol Trollip hopes to be elected mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro...
Vol 56 No 17 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Nor has Mbete held a ministerial portfolio while her rival was Health Minister under the late President Nelson Mandela and then Foreign Minister under ex-President Thabo Mbeki...
He had also courted controversy in 2005 when outlining concepts of trusteeship for ‘failed states' and again when describing the African National Congress's intimate relationship with the South African Communist Party in his most recent book Comrades in Exile in 2013 in which he documented Nelson Mandela's membership of the SACP and again incurred a storm of opprobrium...
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Here he tackled one of the world's most iconic struggles the African National Congress's anti-apartheid struggle and one of its most venerated leaders Nelson Mandela...
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In 2001 the London daily Guardian printed a photograph of Hoile as Vice-President of Britain's Federation of Conservative Students sporting a sticker bearing the legend 'Hang Nelson Mandela'...
Vol 56 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
They fear that President Jacob Zuma's poor image and diminishing urban electoral appeal could cost the ANC the key major metropolitan cities of Johannesburg Pretoria (Tshwane) and Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay)...
Fort Hare is an ANC stronghold where former presidents Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo studied...
The Democratic Alliance Youth group already leads at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (once Port Elizabeth University) another ANC former stronghold in the Eastern Cape...
'But the truth is that most business people want to be Harry Oppenheimer not Nelson Mandela...
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He still has some influential opponents in Frelimo though including Graça Machel widow of Founding President Samora Machel and later of South African President Nelson Mandela...
Kennedy and Nelson Mandela have given the opposition a filip...
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