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Analysts have welcomed the election by Parliament of South Africa’s former Deputy President and recently selected ruling African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa (66) as its fifth head of state and Government yesterday.
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President Jacob Zuma resigned as leader of South Africa last night during a televised address to the nation. “I resign as president of the Republic with immediate effect,” he said.
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ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is having to put out fires in his party as fellow leaders, party structures and the public grow impatient with the pace of talks about President Jacob Zuma’s exit from the Union Buildings.
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Thapelo Tselapedi Correspondent South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has a new president – Cyril Ramaphosa. But who is he?
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MY TURN WITH TICHAONA ZINDOGA PRESIDENT Mugabe is leading a Zimbabwean delegation in South Africa for bilateral talks under the banner of the Bi-National Commission. This is the Second Session of the BNC. President Zuma attended the reverse fixture of the bilateral talks in Harare this time last year.
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JOHANNESBURG. – Even though President Jacob Zuma survived the no confidence vote, political noise will persist leading up to the ANC elective conference in December, which may put pressure on the rand, said an economist.
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Joram Nyathi Spectrum THERE is no doubting that South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is venal. There are just too many allegations of corruption or questionable behaviour being raised against him. Yet this week he survived an eighth no confidence vote against his presidency of South Africa.
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JOHANNESBURG/CAPE TOWN. – South Africa’s National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete must make a rational decision on whether or not to allow MPs to vote by secret ballot in the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma.
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Liesl Louw-Vaudran Correspondent The 29th African Union (AU) summit that takes place in Addis Ababa from 27 June to 4 July is likely to be the first in many years without a South African president in attendance.
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Nathaniel Manheru THE OTHER SIDE— AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven’t said the goal is to lead. To govern.
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JOHANNESBURG. — Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) has called on families of the deceased Marikana miners not to allow Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to “use this shameful, regrettable and painful matter for his presidential ambitions”.
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CAPE TOWN. – National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete and President Jacob Zuma yesterday filed papers in the Constitutional Court responding to an application from the United Democratic Movement on the motion of no confidence.
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John Pilger Correspondent THE political rupture in South Africa is being presented in the outside world as the personal tragedy and humiliation of one man, Thabo Mbeki. It is reminiscent of the beatification of Nelson Mandela at the death of apartheid.
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PRETORIA/CAPE TOWN. – President Zuma has told supporters not to concern themselves with criticism by opposition parties, as that is the job of the opposition.
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CAPE TOWN. — The United Democratic Movement has been granted access to the Constitutional Court over their calls for the secret ballot to be used in the motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma (pictured right).