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This article was first published in City Press. We are publishing a variety of views on the election results to stimulate debate. South Africa held its national and provincial elections on 29 May, amid the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Contrary to...
By Livhuwani Mammburu20 September 2010ANC President Jacob Zuma has old delegates at the African National Council that the meeting was no place to discuss issues such as nationalization“We must not listen to the media and other people who say we are coming here to...
By Dominic Mahlangu, Charles Molele and Nkululeko Ncana20 September 2010Delegates applaud president's tough line ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema suffered a major defeat yesterday as President Jacob Zuma stamped his authority on the ruling party and read the riot...
14 September 2010Johannesburg - The nationalisation of mines debate started "wrongly" and in the "wrong place", Congress of SA Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said in Johannesburg on Tuesday."It has been narrowed... it does an injustice to an otherwise...
By Natasha Marrian8 September 2010ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Tuesday attacked ANC leaders who denied that nationalisation was party policy, saying they were "denouncing" the Freedom Charter. "We have been listening to leaders of the ANC who understand...
7 September 2010The narrow black economic empowerment focus has "set back" South Africa's critical mining sector, SA Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin said on Tuesday. "The big nationalisation has already happened and it was nationalisation of the...
7 September 2010A strategic national plan for the mining sector needs to be developed before looking at nationalisation of mines, Joel Netshitenzhe, executive director of the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (Mistra) said on Tuesday. "To pose that question...