African National Congress News

There is no need for the African National Congress to be protected from the South African Communist Party, ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said on Wednesday.

If even some of the more modest predictions about Jacob Zuma's rise to power had been correct, South Africa would be an empty, corrupt dictatorship by now.

Congress of the People president Mosiuoa Lekota has described calls for former president Thabo Mbeki, and those who served under him, to be charged with genocide as an irresponsible and dangerous distortion of the history of the country, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday.

South African president Jacob Zuma and American president Barack Obama do not seem to have much in common.

WINNIE MANDELA'S persistent denial of accusations that she misappropriated African National Congress funds and had an affair with a young lawyer were contradicted yesterday by publication in the South African press of a letter she wrote to her lover.

For those concerned with human rights, there is a never-ending assortment of countries to which to direct one's attention.

The African National Congress has removed Nondumiso Maphazi as Nelson Mandela Bay executive mayor "to protect and guard her dignity", the party said.

Christian Madunjani Luthuli, the son of the late ANC president and Nobel Peace winner, Albert Luthuli passed away on Thursday, the ANC said on Saturday.

From a rumor, to a rising murmur, the proposal floated by the Palestinian Authority's Ramallah leadership to declare Palestinian statehood unilaterally has suddenly hit center stage.

The African National Congress won four wards in the by-elections held in KwaZulu-Natal, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Thursday.

Senior official of the Communist Party of China Zhou Yongkang arrived in Johannesburg Wednesday afternoon on an official goodwill visit to South Africa.

WHEN the African National Congress and its leftist allies gather tomorrow for three days of talks on how to deliver on jobs, education, health, crime and rural development, the answers they craft will have to go beyond ideology.

BEIJING: Zhou Yongkang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau will pay a good-will visit to Sudan and South Africa in the second half of this month.

President Jacob Zuma on Saturday called on traditional leaders to help government to fight crime.

By Owei Lakemfa SOUTH Africa has again postponed the target date of its land reform programme.A In its post apartheid election manifesto, the ruling African National Congress had promised to redistribute 30 percent of agricultural land in its first five years in office.

Reuters/Johannesburg South African President Jacob Zuma's meeting with his trade union and communist allies today may produce more rhetoric than substance despite their push to have him shift economic policy to the left.

A struggle over how to manage South Africa's state-owned power company has opened debates on racism in the boardroom and political meddling in a country where politics and race remain a volatile mix.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:35 PM A South African dream, deferred Geoffrey York A year ago, I was at the formative meeting of a nascent political party that seemed to be triggering an earthquake in South African politics.

The UN General Assembly has declared July 18 "Nelson Mandela International Day" to mark the South African anti-apartheid leader's contribution to peace.

The latest developments at Eskom are a "complete disaster", analyst Adam Habib said after Eskom chairperson Bobby Godsell resigned on Monday and CEO Jacob Maroga returned to work after his own apparent recent resignation.