S.Africa's ANC set to elect leader at conference
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC opened a conference on Sunday to elect its new party leader, who is likely to succeed President Thabo Mbeki when he leaves office in 2009.
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Khartoum - South African President Thabo Mbeki is scheduled to lead a high-level government and business delegation on an official visit to Khartoum, Sudan, from Thursday.
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South Africa's President Mbeki says he could stay as African National Congress leader after elections this year.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - African National Congress delegates gathered on Tuesday for a delayed leadership vote that could end South African President Thabo Mbeki's control over the deeply divided ruling party.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC on Tuesday began voting in an acrimonious leadership election expected to put Jacob Zuma on track to become the country's president in 2009.
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress elected populist Jacob Zuma as its party leader, putting him on course to become president in 2009
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said that it will hold a lunchtime press conference on Tuesday to discuss the controversial public spat between its leader Zwelinzima Vavi and the African National Congress (ANC) national spokesperson
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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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South African President Thabo Mbeki is to travel to strife-torn Ivory Coast next week on a new mission as the African Union's special mediator, his spokesman said.
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African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma will be the governing party's candidate for national elections, the group declared Tuesday, despite his pending trial on corruption charges.
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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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Newly elected ANC leader Jacob Zuma came under early pressure from his leftist backers Wednesday to steer South Africa on a more pro-union course after toppling arch rival Thabo Mbeki.
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The ruling ANC's top decision-making body will discuss corruption charges against party leader Jacob Zuma on Monday in an explosive case that could derail his hopes of becoming South Africa's president.
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The chairman of the African Union is due to arrive in Kenya to try to end the country's political crisis.
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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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- Key ministers and aides in South African President Thabo Mbeki's government were heckled by delegates on Sunday as the ruling African National Congress prepared to open a leadership congress that could see Mbeki lose control over the party.
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South Africa&#39;s president on Friday announced his country&#39;s candidacy for a seat on the UN Security Council, which has been discussing the addition of new members for more than a decade.