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A new contender has entered the crowded opposition field with a plan to take on the ruling party in next year s elections, Outgoing chairman of FirstRand Bank, Roger Jardine, has surfaced as the latest contender to lead an alliance of opposition parties against the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in next year s national elections. His supporters calculate that his anti-apartheid struggle credentials and his business experience would give him more electoral weight than the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen, who is the prime mover behind the alliance. ....
As the ANC’s national executive committee is due to meet to discuss the way forward for the party (and President Cyril Ramaphosa), there is now a long series of issues that decision-makers need to address. It has been said many times over the past few days that it is difficult to predict what w. ....
On the occasion of the 73rd Anniversary of the ANC, delivering its NEC’s 1985 January Statement, then president, Oliver Reginald Tambo directed the youth to render South Africa ungovernable. What followed this command was resistance by an inspired generation of young people who confronted the apartheid government with stones forcing it to announce a partial state of emergency on 20 July 1985. ....