Tag Archives: ANC
President Zuma has been facing widespread criticism for his comments on Apartheid and the damage it has wrought on society. Planning Minister Trevor Manuel claims that the time for blaming Apartheid is over, at least for certain failings of government. … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Op-ed, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Apartheid, Bantu Education Act 1953, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Trevor Manuel
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ANC and ZANU (PF) are partners in non delivery The ANC and ZANU (PF) are failing to lead Africans from liberation to economic freedom I was not at all surprised by the support of the ANC to ZANU (PF) because … read more »
Posted in Article, Op-ed, Politics, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Harare, Indepth Africa Magazine, South Africa, ZANU, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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Former ANC Youth League president and political firebrand Julius Malema has joined the Democratic Alliance. “The courts are being used to target me, destroy my business and eliminate those who would speak truth to power to the showerhead,” Malema said. … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pan African News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, ANC, Democratic Alliance, Freedom Charter, Julius Malema, Malema, South Africa
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AmaBhungane Reporters The lure of arms deals and diamonds – and possibly other mineral resources – sucked the ANC into the Central African Republic. South African military involvement in the Central African Republic has from the start been entwined with … read more »
Posted in Article, CAR, Central Africa
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Tagged ANC, Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African Republic, François Bozizé, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Pereira, South Africa, South African National Defence Force
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By John Campbell Corruption is one of the most important public issues in South Africa and it receives exhaustive media coverage. And well it should. Transparency International ranked South Africa at sixty-ninth out of 176 countries in its 2012 “Corruption … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Ghana, Global Integrity, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, KPMG, Nkandla, South Africa
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For decades, the country of South Africa was the focus of an international rallying cry against the injustices of apartheid. On June 17, 1991, South Africa’s Parliament abolished the legal framework for the practice of racial persecution. In 1994, Nelson Mandela and his … read more »
Khaya Dlanga The case against Oscar Pistorius was bound to take a racial turn. And Henke Pistorius’s comments are just the beginning, writes Khaya Dlanga. Oscar Pistorius’s father made some incendiary comments when he said that the ANC-led government does … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged ANC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Henke Pistorius, IndepthAfrica, Martin Luther King, Oscar Pistorius, Pistorius, South Africa, White people
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By Tim Wigmore The creation of a new political party in South Africa is the latest sign of the ANC’s pr The formation of the Agang party in South Africa is the latest reflection of the failings of the post-1994 … read more »
Africans are now sick and tired of liberation political parties, who can only boast about the past. I read last week that a prominent female ANC leader in South Africa has accused the DA of being neocolonialists who want to … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, South Africa, Southern Africa, Vince Musewe
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Harare, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, South Africa, White Africans of European ancestry, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
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Paul Trewhela Paul Trewhela says the Mangaung elective conference was determined by fraud “Widespread irregularity” within the ANC – and the “forces of change” An important analysis has been published by Professor Pierre de Vos – professor of Constitutional Law … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Bloemfontein, Free State, Gwede Mantashe, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Motlanthe, South Africa
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By William Gumede For most of the 100 years of the ANC’s history, two distinct strands of Zulu nationalism competed for dominance in the ANC, but especially in the KwaZulu Natal wing of the party, the one conservative, and more … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, KwaZulu, KwaZulu-Natal, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Zulu
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(Reuters) – Four white South Africans were charged with treason on Tuesday over a suspected plot to bomb a conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and execute President Jacob Zuma and other top government officials. The four, named … read more »
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will go head to head in the battle to lead South Africa’s ruling ANC, after both were nominated by party members. At a party conference, Motlanthe disregarded calls to avoid an embarrassing … read more »
Julius Malema has given the ANC’s Mangaung conference an ultimatum to immediately reinstate him as youth league president with full powers, or else face the consequences. In a letter of demand written to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe yesterday, Malema identified … read more »
(AP) — South Africa’s governing African National Congress political party will return to where it was first formed to fight apartheid a century ago to pick its next leader, at a time some believe the movement is struggling to regain … read more »
It is insulting to Madiba and everything he has worked for to suggest that the country will fall apart when he dies Madiba is in hospital. Spokespeople assure us he is doing well. That he is old, sick and likely … read more »
Jeremy Gordin Jeremy Gordin says electorate seems to be suffering from a case of battered wife syndrome We’re standing – or, in my case at the moment, sitting – on the cusp of the Mangaung conference, due to run from … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Blade Nzimande, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Kingsley Amis, Martin Seligman, Nelson Mandela, Zuma
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South Africa’s churches have attacked the African National Congress (ANC), accusing the ruling party of moral decay and of abandoning Nelson Mandela’s goal to build a non-racial democracy from the ashes of apartheid. Jacob Zuma Photo: EVA-LOTTE JANSSON In a … read more »
Vusi Shongwe makes the case for President Jacob Zuma, while Prince Mashele predicts ruin at re-election. YES, he’s the man of the movement, says Vusi Shongwe. Albert Einstein said splitting the atom changed everything except our way of thinking, … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, Albert Einstein, ANC, Bloemfontein, BRICS, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, South Africa, Zuma
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by Mail & Guardian Online Former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s political career may be at an end as the potential for him to be reinstated at Mangaung diminishes. Malema’s political career looks just about finished as the potential … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, African National Congress Youth League, ANC, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Kgalema Motlanthe, Malema, western cape
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RW Johnson says short term compromise will lead to long term disaster for party The Democratic Alliance (DA) is a unique opposition party in Africa: white- led, multi-racial and steadily gaining. From a base of 1.7% in the 1994 parliamentary … read more »
Posted in Article, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged African National Congress, ANC, Cape Town, Democratic Alliance, Helen Zille, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, South Africa, western cape
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Mzukisi Makatse Mzukisi Makatse says a revitalised League can play a important reforming role The ANCYL leadership must not allow itself to be distracted by side shows of miserable clowns in the political wilderness, and must instead be steadfast on … read more »
ANCWL POST NEC AND NOMINATION MEDIA BRIEFING The ANC Women’s League held a fruitful two day meeting. Yesterday the NEC met at the St George hotel and agreed on a number of issues. We also highlighted challenges that we as … read more »
The way in which the ANC elects its president is deeply flawed, is skewed towards churning out poor quality leaders and turns members and supporters into frustrated and impotent bystanders. Firstly, the 4500 voting delegates that will vote for the … read more »
Just a few years ago, South Africa was being hailed as a darling of the emerging markets. Crisp with swagger following the hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, South Africa’s boosters pointed to a renewed mining boom, fast growing … read more »
The ANC will block the opposition’s attempt to have a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma debated in the National Assembly. The African National Congress’s parliamentary caucus met on Wednesday to discuss the proposed motion, ANC Chief Whip … read more »
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, politicsweb IFP leader says the ANC President advised him to step down due to internal divisions in his party Dear friends and fellow South Africans, In 1983, an Indian sage by the name of Pandit Satyapal Sharma, … read more »
Memorial lecture by ANC President on legacy of his predecessor, November 9 2012 ANC President Jacob Zuma, The President Thabo Mbeki Centenary Lecture, Aliwal North, Eastern Cape November 9 2012 Theme: Let a hundred flowers bloom The National Chairperson, … read more »
November 8, 2012 by benim
Jane Duncan For decades, the ANC has represented the concretisation of significant transformation gains for many South Africans and because of this, mass support for the party has had a rational and objective basis. But this basis is being eroded. … read more »
The Gauteng ANC Youth League criticised deputy chairperson Simon Molefe on Thursday after he suggested that President Jacob Zuma should be supported for a second term. “Whilst we acknowledge that individuals in the organisation are entitled to express their personal … read more »
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