President Robert Mugabe has abused the support of his regional peers and now faces open criticism from South Africa’s President Kgalema Motlanthe and African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma...
Vol 49 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The presence of Ramos and Marcus at the NEC meeting follows sharp criticism by its dominant faction which supports party President Jacob Zuma of companies which back either the pro-Thabo Mbeki faction or the new breakaway party led by Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa...
Vavi of Cosatu has said 'people should stop putting pressure on Jacob Zuma not to make any leftward economic policy 'shifts'...
Vol 49 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In October 2008 at a fundraiser for Jacob Zuma several Black Economic Empowerment oligarchs once closely allied to Thabo Mbeki turned up...
Vol 49 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In the Limpopo platinum region for example there is a fierce contest between pro-Jacob Zuma and anti-Zuma oligarchs...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
As banks collapsed and great industrial firms were threatened with closure Jacob Zuma the African National Congress President and probably the next President of South Africa struggled to attract a high-level audience...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The Congress of South African Trade Unions and South African Communist Party are enraged by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's statements on economic policy continuity...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Three factions are now vying for power in the African National Congress: the dominant group led by ANC President Jacob Zuma which controls the National Executive Committee (NEC) the trades unions the Youth League and the intelligence groups; their immediate rivals who remain loyal to ousted national President Thabo Mbeki; and a third group led by Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
All the African National Congress’s provincial branches are internally divided between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma supporters...
Vol 49 No 21 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mbeki thwarted his bid to challenge his then ally Jacob Zuma for the ANC deputy presidency in 2002...
Vol 49 No 20 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu who has called ANC President Jacob Zuma an embarrassment said: ‘Many people would not be too embarrassed to have [Motlanthe] as head of state...