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ANC secretary general Ace Magashule said the scandal-tainted President Jacob Zuma must leave office
THE African National Congress (ANC) recalled Jacob Zuma today, officially instructing him to step down as president of South Africa.
The decision was taken after a marathon meeting of the ruling party’s national executive, which began at noon yesterday and went on for 13 hours.
Executive committee members were told that Mr Zuma had agreed to resign, but only in another three to six months.
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how ancient traditions practiced today can be the cornerstone of anti-imperialism in Africa
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports
The charter emerged from a profoundly democratic process where people across South Africa answered ‘What kind of country do we want?’ — but imperial backlash and neoliberal compromise deferred its deepest transformations, argues RONNIE KASRILS