ANC Members Raucously Defy S. African Movement's Elite
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 17 -- Africa's iconic liberation movement is this week facing urgent new demands from its members to display the same principles of open, accountable rule that it long demanded of apartheid South Africa.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa Dec. 18--Thousands of African National Congress activists lined up in the rain Tuesday morning to elect a new leader: either incumbent President Thabo Mbeki or the man he fired in 2005 because of alleged corruption, former deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma vie for the top post as South Africa's ruling ANC elects its new leader.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said  trade union leaders, who say they were severely assaulted by  police after trying to stage a protest over wages, had defied  authority and deserved the beating.
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Vote by party serves as repudiation of president after Jacob Zuma was better organised among poor
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POLOKWANE, South Africa, Dec. 16 -- Thousands of African National Congress activists who assembled here to elect their next party president responded to a 2 1/2 -hour speech by incumbent Thabo Mbeki with cheers, dancing and stirring songs of liberation.
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A South African trade union mission is being deported from Zimbabwe after defying a ban to enter the country.
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He was once seen as a leader who brooked no argument but Thabo Mbeki's authority within the ANC is showing clear signs of waning in the twilight of his time as head of South Africa's ruling party.
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ANC leader Jacob Zuma appealed for unity on Saturday after a bruising leadership battle that exposed deep divides in South Africa's ruling party and vowed serious action against anyone who tried to undermine it.
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As South Africa&#39;s president he led the ANC back to power in elections in April with a two-thirds majority. The economy is booming, inflation is low and jobs, finally, are being created.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa Â As leaders of the ruling African National Congress huddled behind closed doors Monday to resolve tensions at a crucial conference, a senior party spokesman voiced concern at the level of dissent from members.
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Some of the world's wealthiest residents are exploiting their connections, expertise and nest eggs to change Africa's fate.
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THE MDC has embarked on a campaign to discredit the Government by claiming that it is not implementing the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) principles and guidelines governing democratic elections, yet the opposition partyâs senior
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Days before Jacob Zuma was expected to become the next leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, legal authorities have filed court documents they say contain new evidence against him in a corruption case.
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AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) head of presidency and spokesman Smuts Ngonyama has called for a code of conduct for the tripartite alliance, a move observers said could lead to a muzzling of dissent.
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Members of Zimbabweâs opposition said today that their leaders were beaten after the violent breakup of a rally.
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South Africa's most powerful labor group endorsed Jacob Zuma as the next leader of the ruling African National Congress on Thursday, aiming to nudge him into the presidency and the country towards socialism.