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...only I could feed him a potion and make him young again.' MONICA XANGATHI, Johannesburg resident, reminiscing about former leader Nelson Mandela as poverty and political strife continue to worsen in South Africa...
...exile, prison, torture and assassination. But after 14 years as South Africa's ruling party, an internal power struggle appears to have finally torn it apart. Senior members of the party on Wednesday announced plans to leave ANC and form a new political party. At a press conference in Johannesburg, Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, a former political prisoner who served as national chairman of the party and defense minister, said of the present ANC leadership: "We are serving them divorce papers." Lekota said he would convene a national convention of dissatisfied party members and others to discuss "how to defend democracy...
...worsening skills shortage in its core operations. Instead of claiming transformation by counting how many black directors sit on its board, or how many discounted shares it has sold to the so-called strategic investors, Sasol will have to contribute to the transformation agenda of South Africa. Tshilidzi Marwala, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
...Mbeki and members of his cabinet of having improperly intervened to ensure that Zuma was prosecuted. "It's quite clear that the purpose of the decision is to prevent the NPA [National Prosecuting Authority] from prosecuting Zuma," Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy in Johannesburg said in a radio interview on Saturday. But it was also about revenge...
...assume that the MDC has been softened up enough [by the past months of violence]] to ensure that they don't really stray into the areas that the generals don't want them to stray into," Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy in Johannesburg, told TIME...