Post Tagged with: "Jacob Zuma"

Only immunity will bring peace to Zimbabwe

Only immunity will bring peace to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is fast approaching a dangerous tipping point. Last month, its ailing octogenarian president, Robert Mugabe, angrily defied his critics, calling for early elections in 2012.

Jonathan Moyo tops 2011 noise makers

Jonathan Moyo tops 2011 noise makers

HARARE – Political turncoat, serial flip-flopper, media hangman, and former Information minister Jonathan Moyo emerged as the noisiest politician in 2011, according to observations by the Daily News. Moyo tops the newspapers’ Noise Makers of the Year 2011 list

Indecision in Zimbabwean politics is final

Indecision in Zimbabwean politics is final

Viewing the broad spectrum of the political landscape in Zimbabwe at the end of 2011, one is left with the distinct impression that all the political forces are caught under a spell of indecision writes Professor Brian Raftopolous.

An open letter to ANC’s Gwede Mantashe

An open letter to ANC’s Gwede Mantashe

It is with much embarrassment that I write to you to remonstrate at your recent attempt to separate the ANC’s foreign policy and the responsibilities of the government of the Republic of South Africa towards Zimbabweans in general.

Zuma says NO to early Zimbabwe election

Zuma says NO to early Zimbabwe election

HARARE – Facilitators to Zimbabwe’s political crisis have reaffirmed that Zimbabwe cannot hold free and fair elections without necessary reforms, a development which flies in the face of President Robert Mugabe’s assertion that polls will be held next year.

ANC message supporting Zanu PF shameful

ANC message supporting Zanu PF shameful

There were probably many occasions this past year, but nothing quite like ex-trade unionist, now ANC secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe’s speech last week at Zanu-PF’s congress, to move one to repeat E.E. Cummings’ laconic observation: “A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man”.

We are embarking on action now: MDC-99

We are embarking on action now: MDC-99

The following is a statement issued by the breakaway MDC-99 political party led by the former MP for St Mary’s Job Sikhala. Out of frustration over what he called dictatorial tendencies in the MDC led by Welshman Ncube, Sikhala quit to form his own party, naming it after the year in which the once united MDC was formed.

Julius Malema in his own words

Julius Malema in his own words

Firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has been suspended from South Africa’s ruling ANC after being found guilty of bringing it into disrepute. Malema, 30, played a key role in Jacob Zuma’s rise to become president in 2009 but the pair have since fallen out, with Mr Malema accusing his former ally of not doing enough to relieve poverty.

Malema suspended for five years from ANC

Malema suspended for five years from ANC

Julius Malema, South Africa’s outspoken ANC youth league president, has been cast into the political wilderness after he was suspended from the party for five years over charges of misconduct.

Page optimized by WP Minify WordPress Plugin