African National Congress News

Cope leaders Terror Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa said on Thursday they did not know why their number three, Lynda Odendaal, quit this week.

A SOUTH African exile who organised the anti-apartheid movement in Wales is returning to his homeland to pick up a prestigious Mahatma Gandhi award for reconciliation and peace.

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's call for South Africa's mines to be nationalised has received lukewarm support from the National Union of Mineworkers , Business Report said today.

The Inkatha Freedom Party on Monday rejected a call by African National Congress president Jacob Zuma for the two parties to merge.

ANC leaders in KwaZulu-Natal said on Sunday that it would closely examine DA allegations that more than R1m of tax payersa money was used for the ruling partya s election rally in Pietermaritzburg six months ago.

By Bheki Mbanjwa The African National Congress remains the centre of power in spite of recent suggestions that its Tripartite Alliance partners, Cosatu and the SACP, were wielding too much power and were thus dictating to President Jacob Zuma.

ANC Youth League President Julius Malema's suggestion that mines be nationalised is not ANC policy, the party said on Thursday.

Julius Malema has called on Cabinet ministers to take public HIV tests as part of the African National Congress Youth League's "one boyfriend, one girlfriend" campaign.

This week, one of Chilean dictator Augusto PinochetA's most renowned accusers, Judge Juan Salvador GuzmA n Tapia, visits South Africa on a speaking tour.

Change in Iran has to come from within. A generation of American activists was inspired by the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, which promised moral clarity amid the cruel compromises of the cold war.

The African National Congress and Cosatu in KwaZulu-Natal have released a press release condemning doctors for their "unprofessional" strike action in the province.

The 54th Freedom Charter anniversary celebrations were marred by protesting Johannesburg emergency workers in the city centre on Friday.

There is nothing wrong in the ANC making government policy, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.

The Democratic Alliance was celebrating on Thursday morning after it won four of the six by-elections held in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.

AS Zimbabweans eagerly await the beginning of the constitutional making process, we should be clear of what exactly we want as a people.

A constable involved in the arrest last year of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni was asked to change statements in the police docket, the Parow Regional Court heard on Wednesday.

South Africa should scrap its drive to give black people a slice of the white-dominated economy because it stifles growth and spurs corruption, the brother of the country's former president said on Friday.

Heavily armed police used several vehicles to keep chanting ANC and IFP supporters apart at the Camperdown Magistrate's Court in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.

Rural development, job creation and poverty alleviation were central to Youth Day commemoration messages on Tuesday.

A slammed door greeted MPs who marched from the House of Commons last night to South Africa House to appeal for the release of the eight African leaders found guilty of sabotage in the Rivonia trial yesterday.