African National Congress News

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.

The weekend murder of former senior government official Warwick Dorning seriously questions the ruling party's selective security arrangements for its cadres, the Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa said on Monday.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, leader of the African National Congress, has been sworn in as South Africa's next president.

South Africa's government says it has canceled a contract to buy eight Airbus military aircraft that had set off a debate about public spending.