Struggle for succession heats up in ANC
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South African President Thabo Mbeki still has two and half years in office, but the battle over who will succeed him is already heating up.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - The unity and discipline that bound South Africa's ruling ANC through decades of struggle against apartheid has crumbled in a grassroots revolution that swept Jacob Zuma to top of the party.
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Some say the bare-knuckled succession struggle for the presidency could foretell how robust South AfricaÂs young democracy is.
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Tension mounts among rival supporters as Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki battle for the leadership of South Africa's ruling party
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PALESTINIAN leaders stepping into the power vacuum left by the death of Yasser Arafat face one of the most daunting challenges in their people&#39;s troubled history.
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ACCRA, Ghana -- African leaders argued fiercely yesterday over whether to rapidly create a single state stretching from the Cape to Cairo, and one small group threatened to break away and forge ahead with the project.
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Ex-unionist Cyril Ramaphosa's name is put forward as an alternative candidate to Jacob Zuma as ANC leader.
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Ashwell Prince steered South Africa to a potentially crucial first innings lead on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies developed into a war of attrition at Newlands on Friday.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is under pressure to find ways to work with an opposition-dominated parliament after his party suffered a surprise setback in weekend legislative elections.
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President Thabo Mbeki says the bitter contest to lead South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) could destroy the party that helped end apartheid.
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An early leader out of the gate faces stiff competition in the stretch.
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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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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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Lebanonâs efforts to select a new president are already facing fresh setbacks. But with a deadline looming, lawmakers risk even deeper chaos if they fail to make a choice.
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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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Leaders on both sides of a contested election move toward  a new deal, but the impact of weeks of bloodshed may be more difficult to resolve
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Move comes amid increasing impatience at failure to achieve progress in power-sharing talks with government