Mbeki faces defeat as ANC leader
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South African president likely to lose party leadership to man he sacked as deputy president, Jacob Zuma
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Odinga poised to replace Kibaki by big majority as ministers lose seats in beating for ruling party
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's deeply divided ruling party on Monday overcame two days of wrangling to clear the way for a leadership election between President Thabo Mbeki and his bitter rival Jacob Zuma.
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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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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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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC, torn by the worst rift in its history, on Sunday began a conference expected to put controversial politician Jacob Zuma on track to become the country's next president.
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South Africa's government said on Tuesday it remained firmly under the control of President Thabo Mbeki, dismissing concerns that his humiliating defeat in the battle to lead the ruling party had made him a lame duck.
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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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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - The ruling ANC voted on Tuesday in an acrimonious election expected to put South African President Thabo Mbeki's bitter rival, Jacob Zuma, on track to become head of state in 2009.
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Thousands of African  National Congress activists gathered on Saturday ahead of a  congress to decide whether Thabo Mbeki continues to head the  ruling party.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC chose a leader on Tuesday, a vote in which Jacob Zuma was expected to oust President Thabo Mbeki as party head and put himself on course for the presidency.
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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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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa faced deep uncertainty on Wednesday after the greatest political shake-up since the end of apartheid set populist Jacob Zuma on the road to the state presidency.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa Dec. 18--Thousands of African National Congress activists lined up in the rain Tuesday morning to elect a new leader: either incumbent President Thabo Mbeki or the man he fired in 2005 because of alleged corruption, former deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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The African National  Congress (ANC) holds a hotly contested election on Monday that  could clear the way for the controversial Jacob Zuma to assume  South Africa's presidency.
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South Africa's ruling ANC party said on Tuesday that newly elected leader Jacob Zuma would remain its candidate for state president in 2009 and expressed "grave misgivings" about corruption charges against him.
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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.