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SOUTH AFRICAN President Jacob Zuma brushed off an internal challenge to his leadership of the ruling ANC yesterday.
A vote of no confidence in Mr Zuma was expected to be held at the weekend meeting of the party’s national executive, which was extended for an extra day to deal with it.
The challenge was reportedly led by Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom and tabled on Saturday while several Zuma allies were away at a wedding in Cape Town.
On its revolutionary founder’s 100th birthday, Cuba remains the revolution that ‘does not give up’ and socialism humanity’s only hope of avoiding the abyss
ALEX GORDON and LORRAINE DOUGLAS report from Havana, Cuba, where they represented the Communist Party of Britain at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties on August 7-8
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY