A counter march, to "defend" the ANC's headquarters and newly elected party president Cyril Ramaposa is being planned for Monday. The march is to be held to counter a Hands Off Zuma planned protest by Black First Land First (BLF) and other organisations, defending President Jacob Zuma's continued stay as head of state. A group, claiming to be made up of ANC members from across South Africa, told News24 that […]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will put together a team to help prepare for the possibility that Cape Town will run out of water soon, he told CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour in Davos, Switzerland, this week. "Climate change is a reality," said Ramaphosa, in the interview on Thursday. "If people around the world, specifically South Africa, ever thought that climate change is just a fable or a fiction, we in South […]
Deputy President and newly elected ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa has reaffirmed government's determination to build an economy that serves "all our people". In his first Christmas message as the party's leader on Christmas Eve, Ramaphosa encouraged South Africans "to enter the New Year determined to redouble our efforts to build a society in which all are safe, secure and feel valued". "We need to work together as social partners to […]
Newly elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa launched a thinly veiled attack on his predecessor Jacob Zuma during his maiden speech at the party's national conference on Thursday morning. Ramaphosa went on the attack, alluding that under his administration the ANC would not be a party of words but a party of action. "Those who are deployed by our movement should always be a source of pride and not a source […]
The competition for the top six leadership positions in South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), was no carefully choreographed script such as the one-candidate-per-election of Chinese Communist Party congresses. It was a rip-roaring, full-throated democratic contestation – as raucous as US primary elections. Even more so, with delegates’ repeated singing and dancing. This point bears emphasising. As recently as 2016, one hardline ANC critic published a book-length […]
There was still uncertainty over the election of Ace Magashule as ANC secretary-general at its 54th national conference at Nasrec on Tuesday. Supporters of newly elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and his ally, Senzo Mchunu, had earlier raised concern that Magashule’s election was irregular. Magashule and Mchunu were both vying for the position of secretary-general, which the former clinched on Monday by 2,360 votes to the later’s 2,336. The group […]
President Jacob Zuma should not spend one more day as head of state‚ according to ANC veteran Sydney Mufamadi. “We don’t know why he should stay for one more day after this conference. He knows he has got nothing of value to add towards what the ANC is trying to do‚” Mufamadi said on Radio 702 on Wednesday He said the ANC needs to be the organisation that earned the […]
The election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the new president of the African National Congress (ANC) is "too little too late" for the party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said in a statement on Monday. "The ANC is dead and cannot self-correct, no matter who is at the helm," DA leader Mmusi Maimane said in a statement shortly after the result was announced. "This is because the party itself is held together […]
Cyril Ramaphosa is the 14th president of the African National Congress. After a gruelling election campaign to win the party leadership, 2 440 delegates voted for Ramaphosa to lead the country’s governing party for the next five years. The losing candidate, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, received 2 261 votes. The rest of ANC’s next top six are: • Deputy president: David Mabuza (2538) • Chairperson: Gwede Mantashe (2418) • Secretary general: Ace Magashule (2360) • Deputy secretary general: Jessie Duarte […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
