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• Polokwane Journal: Zimbabwean Violence Resurfaces in South Africa

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Westenburg Township, at the western edge of Polokwane, South Africa, was the scene of recent violence against Zimbabweans.
  5 days ago

• Zuma is nobody’s puppet

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 557
  As South Africans approached their elections earlier this year, many were apprehensive about the favours that were owed by the then presumptive President Jacob Zuma to the left wing of the ANC, Cosatu, the SA Communist party and the ANC Youth League.Indeed analysts and political observers expressed concerns that the ...
  1 week ago

• Our much-loved Malema Dilemma

  
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  Are the fortunes of South Africa’s political enfant terrible - African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema - falling? Hasn’t he been recently called a ‘drama queen’, a ’sound bite politician’ and a ‘joke’? Was he was not effectively booed out of a political conference, by his ...
  1 week ago

• Malema and the yellow communist peril

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 120
  The youth leader Julius Malema is said to have invoked the ghost of Joseph Stalin in his latest assault on the SACP, whom he described as the “greedy yellow communists” who wanted to control the ANC so they could get their hands of piles of money.Said he: “The yellow communists are driven by greed. They ...
  1 week ago

• Malema and Nzimande are volcanoes. Beneath, the tectonic plates are shifting

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 115
  THE furious dispute that has erupted between the ANC Youth League and the SACP provides more insight into the tensions within the ruling party.These tensions are superficially between youth leader, Julius Malema and the SACP’s Blade Nzimande.They are the volcanoes, evidence that beneath the surface, the tectonic ...
  1 week ago

• Malema walks out of SACP congress – what does it all mean?

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 120
  JULIUS Malema, the ANC Youth Leagues extrovert leader was given short shrift by the South African Communist Party today.Malema demanded the right to address the delegates, apparently because he deems himself worthy of airtime and more than a mere delegate.He was turned down by the party’s Gwede Mantashe who doubles ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gwede Mantashe opening address to SACP conference – full text

  
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  OPENING ADDRESS BY SACP CHAIRPERSON, CDE GWEDE MANTASHE, TO THE SACP SPECIAL NATIONAL CONGRESS: 10 DECEMBER 2009.Two and a half years ago Communists and the Alliance partner representatives gathered in the Nelson Mandela Metropalitan University to do a detailed analysis of the political situation in our country and ...
  2 weeks ago

• South Africans Angry @ “Yank” Casting: Winnie Mandela’s “Our” Terrorist

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 667
  By Debbie SchlusselWhen I first read, a week or so ago, that singer/actress Jennifer Hudson had been cast to play Winnie Mandela in a biopic, I wondered:  will they show her laughing and being entertained while her henchmen “necklaced” innocent fellow South Africans?For those who don’t know, “necklacing” is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The ANC Veterans League

  
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  The African National Congress is to launch a veterans wing in Esselen Park, Ekurhuleni.  The new body will cater for members who are older than 60 and have served the party for 40 years.  The league will have the same voting rights as the women’s and youth leagues.
  3 weeks ago

• ASC honors Chris Menges

  
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  Variety : The American Society of Cinematographers has selected Chris Menges as the recipient of its International Achievement Award. The kudo will be presented at the 24th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Century Plaza on Feb. 27. Menges won Oscars for “The Killing Fields” and “The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bill Gates meets with Jacob Zuma AND Kgalema Motlanthe

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 115
  This week Bill Gates pulled off something that few other – even visiting heads of state – have failed to achieve: A meeting with both President Zuma and his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe.This from the official statement:“President Zuma and Mr Gates discussed the need to scale up the prevention of HIV and AIDS, ...
  3 weeks ago

• South Africa to Expand Effort to Combat AIDS

  
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  President Jacob Zuma announced on Tuesday that drug therapy for H.I.V.-positive pregnant women and babies will be broadened.
  3 weeks ago

• South Africa to Expand Effort to Combat AIDS

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  President Jacob Zuma of South Africa spoke on Tuesday at the World Aids day event in Pretoria.
  3 weeks ago

• Decoding the very polite redeployment of Her Worship, the mayor

  
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  HAVING decided to shaft Nelson Mandela Metro Mayor, Nondumiso Maphazi, for governmenace failures, factionalism and general incompetence, the ANC’s spin doctors worked very hard to package the decision.What followed was a masterpiece of the “smiling death” type in which the ANC damned her with faint praise.Some ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is the tide turning against Julius Malema?

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 115
  THE ANC Youth League’s Julius Malema has suffered a series of defeats over the last week which suggest his influence is waning within the ANC. And he has opened a fresh front against the ANC’s left allies, a move which might cost him if only because he is fuelling tensions in the allinance at a [...]Related posts: ...
  4 weeks ago

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