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South Africa: Ruling Party's Chief Whip Calls on Leadership to Resign
News24Wire, 23 October 2016
The ANC has dismissed a call by its chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, for the party's NEC to resign in the wake of various controversies. Read more »
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South Africa: Ruling Party 'Worse' Than Apartheid State - Top Official
Daily Maverick, 24 October 2016
It has finally happened. ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu has started the pushback within the ANC that has been missing while the uproar in society grows about President Jacob Zuma's… Read more »
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South Africa: Jackson Mthembu - in the Land of the Dishonest, an Honest Man Is a Kingmaker
Daily Maverick, 19 October 2016
There is an expression about politics that is almost as old as language itself. It is first recorded in Latin as "in regione caecorum rex est luscus". Nowadays it is usually… Read more »
Top Man in South Africa Ruling Party Ends 'Conspiracy of Silence'
African National Congress Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu has said that the use of state organs to settle political scores makes the ANC leadership "worse" than that of the Apartheid regime, "because they never treated their ministers like this".
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The Gupta family has said that an affidavit filed by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan over 72 "suspicious" transactions worth R6.8 billion will give them the opportunity to clear ... Read more »
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The Democratic Alliance has said that an interdict by President Jacob Zuma and Local Government and Traditional Affairs Minister Des Van Rooyen to prevent the release of a Public ... Read more »
