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Wed May 22 17:28:00 SAST 2013

DA 'outraged' at Bredasdorp decision

Zuma wins second term as ANC president

Sapa | 18 December, 2012 12:41
Supporters of President Jacob Zuma celebrate as delegates to the National Conference of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) begin voting for their leadership in Bloemfontein, December 17, 2012.
Image by: MIKE HUTCHINGS / REUTERS

President Jacob Zuma won a second term as African National Congress leader on Tuesday.

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He received 2983 votes against Kgalema Motlanthe's 991.

Ramaphosa

Businessman Cyril Ramaphosa was elected the ANC's new deputy president on Tuesday.

He received 3018 votes against Tokyo Sexwale's 463 and Mathews Phosa's 470.

He would take over from current deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe.

Motlanthe was nominated for the position, but withdrew his candidacy on Monday.

Mbete

Baleka Mbete retains her position as ANC chairwoman after being re-elected at the ANC's Mangaung conference on Tuesday.

She received 3010 votes. Current deputy secretary-general Thandi Modise was the other candidate, but only received 939 votes.

Mantashe

Gwede Mantashe will retain his position as secretary-general of the African National Congress.

He was re-elected at the ANC's 53rd national conference in Mangaung on Tuesday, with 3058 votes.

He defeated Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, who got 901 votes. Mbalula was nominated by those calling for a change of leadership

Duarte

Jessie Duarte has been elected deputy secretary-general of the African National Congress.

She stood for the position uncontested after the incumbent, Thandi Modise, withdrew her candidacy on Monday.

Baleka Mbete retains her position as ANC chairwoman after being re-elected at the ANC's Mangaung conference on Tuesday.

She received 3010 votes. Current deputy secretary-general Thandi Modise was the other candidate, but only received 939 votes.

Mkhize

KwaZulu-Natal ANC chairman Zweli Mkhize will take over the position of party treasurer general from Mathews Phosa.

Mkhize was chosen at the African National Congress's national elective conference on Tuesday, with 2988 votes. He defeated Gauteng ANC chairman Paul Mashatile, who got 961 votes.

Mashatile was nominated by those calling for a change of leadership.

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proudmbongwa

Posted 155 days ago
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Well this is perfect for this country the masses always likes the charmerman and worry not about his inability to lead the country to the right direction. This is the perfect opportunity for the DA to lead my country in 2014.

BokfanSaffer

Posted 155 days ago
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Will Cyril be prez before 2014????
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m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 155 days ago
Will the CIA or the Chinese Triads triumph?

m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 155 days ago
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The leeches can go on holiday in Mauritius now, and stop wasting money they don't have on farcical 'policies'. The whole purpose was about electing Zuma to continue with his destruction of the whole little moral fabric that we were reconstructing.

Motlanthe should bow out in grace. As the only ANC GS who was not ashamed of driving an old beetle, he was never at home in the lecherous ANC.

We have to grapple with the long-drawn task of searching for a moral fibre, where the majority has no fixed rule for its conduct. We may inherit a scotched earth and barren humanity. Its foundation is rooted in the caprices and of cultist inconstancies. Its interpretation of 'freedom' is about the immoral 'will' of the individuals corrupt enough to blaze to its top.

Sadly, we have lost a great momentum that we sparked in 1976 uprisings. But, as Steven Pinker writes; "Quirks are bound to have implications for the human predicament. Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. We seek it in our friends and mates, nurture it in our children, advance it in our politics and justify it with our religions. A disrespect for morality is blamed for everyday sins and history’s worst atrocities. To carry this weight, the concept of morality would have to be bigger than any of us and outside all of us." RIP ANC! The 'tipping point' is past!

madiege.shokoane

Posted 155 days ago
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What can we do to change the leadership of South Africa? I think there is only one way to do this let us go out there in 2014 general elections and vote for a different org to change our image world wide and learn to do things the right way legitimately.
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m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 155 days ago
Voting is a 22 secs exercise. Any child can do it even faster than that. Building a society, that never existed, damaged by apartheid, and now the ANC, might take centuries to come. But every reasoning human being has an obligation to do so. It is not about us basking in immoral glory of the present. It is about our obligation to human survival. We will all pass, but what we do now will remain to haunt generations and generations to come. Human survival hangs on it.

It is not about - which all leeches would have us believe. 'Economy' is the source of human suffering and death. Its about being human, simple, and the rest follows. That will separate us from animals - which, incidentally, are capable of taking care of themselves.

Loggenberg

Posted 155 days ago
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Zuma wins second term as ANC president
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Now they don't have to rush the Nkanda upgrades anymore

Stirrer

Posted 155 days ago
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Where to from here for Tokyo, Mathews, Fikile, Thandi and Paul?

Must say that out of the whole slate that was elected, only Cyril gives one some confidence for the future!
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Stirrer

Posted 155 days ago
Oh - I forgot about Kgalema as well!

Any chance that a deal was struck with Kgalema beforehand, just to make it seem like there is not a dictatorship brewing? It almost seemed like he was forced to stand against the Big Dude - he was decidedly and most definitely a reluctant candidate!
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proudmbongwa

Posted 155 days ago
Cyril the one who instructed the killing of mine workers in marikana wow hope for what?
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Stirrer

Posted 155 days ago
Hello, proudmbongwa.

My thoughts are that he is someone without blinkers - looking at a bigger picture, rather than merely hogging prime space at the feeding trough!
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proudmbongwa

Posted 155 days ago
Tokyo, Mathews, Fikile, Thandi and Paul
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All these guys are safe including Kgalema the most corrupt organisation is not the only organisation, they have their option already and there were prepared for this before it happen.
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Stirrer

Posted 155 days ago
So you agree that everything was fixed beforehand? Just to provide some "democratic legitimacy" to the once proud liberation-movement-gone-bad?
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proudmbongwa

Posted 155 days ago
Yes but nothing goes bad, the country is already at edge of collapsing what would you expect? ANC was or will never be respected organisation from the onset my bra, everything about these crooks is lies like the apartheid regime.
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ZionLion

Posted 155 days ago
This slate thing is not good for our country... Jus sayin
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ZionLion

Posted 155 days ago
@proudmbongwa... Cyril did not order the killing of mine workers, he asked for sum decisive action against criminal act, Google the e-mails read to the inquiry... JAH BLESS
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ZionLion

Posted 155 days ago
When it comes to politics, everything is about lies & deception. All these dudes are in it for our taxes, there is a few who care but they not in power... Even the Mkhuluwas, Mbalulas, etc they say what we want them to say until they are on top after that they forget or make excuses... Remember JZ b4 Polokwane
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Stirrer

Posted 155 days ago
Rastafari, ZionLion!
Dem black petty booshwah must stop being downpresser man, already. Poor man start to feel it - and will become steppin' razor before long!
I and I need someone like Haile Sellasie First to sort out this mess.

One love...

Mike123

Posted 155 days ago
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So the Mayans were right!

nghunghunyane

Posted 155 days ago
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True Mike123 the end is nigh

Mangqeshane

Posted 155 days ago
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Demcracy at its best & now y'all bickering. Dont vote the ANC phela, life goes on

jamesnaker

Posted 155 days ago
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Elected by fools....

Showerman II - A dark fool rises
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m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 155 days ago
The leeches wnat a gleeful dance and song. For them that is all there is. I cannot put their average level of reasoning above that of a grade two child.

Mangqeshane

Posted 155 days ago
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Had people looked at JZ in how he is running the country and the ANC & paid less attention to his private life. After all he gets paid to govern the country not who is he marrying next. To the millions in this country JZ represents these words by Martin Lawrence "No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life".

He represent the aspirations of the down trodden, that you CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANNA BE IN LIFE. JUST WORK HARD AND THE RESULTS WILL SHOW. No amount of insults thrown at him at will deter him. He's got a tremendous fighting spirit. So when Tupac says "I WAS BORN NOT TO MAKE IT BUT I DID. THE TRIBULATIONS OF A GHETTO KID". Nxamalala is showing the millions of poor BLACK YOUTH (in the main) that YES YOU CAN

TenBears

Posted 155 days ago
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The people have spoken!!!!! You're all pissed because your candidate of choice couldn't make it to the podium!!! He couldn't even garner a thousand votes!!!!!! Even Thabo Mbeki did better!!!!! Go on holiday and take as many tissues for the tears. You've been predicting the outcome of Mangaung all this year thinking that the racist media will sway the voting delegates!!!! Funny enough even Nic Dawes has accepted defeat!!! Come 2014 we will talk with our votes AGAIN!!!! Let the DA start with the dancing roadshow and issuing out of free t-shirts!!!!!! Helen and Lindiwe must be gutted!!!!!

Iktav

Posted 155 days ago
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This might not be as bad as it seems. If Zuma gets impeached, Cyril would take over. And that would be a whole lot better than having Kgalema (Malema's my man) Motlante at the top. Lets just hope now that Zuma gets taken to task for all his shenanigans. Failing that - the people need to vote them out of power in 2014. If they don't - then they deserve no sympathy from anyone. It's time the masses take responsibility for the consequences of their actions!
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RSA.MommaCyndi

Posted 155 days ago
Doesn't even have to be impeached for it to make a difference. Zuma is always either joling around the world or on honeymoon so the Deputy President probably does more running of the country than the dancing playboy does anyhow.

I can guarantee that Cosatu won't be happy with this outcome - I can't see Cyril allowing them to sabotage industry the way they have been doing

kalibanache

Posted 155 days ago
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Who is going to start getting things going in the right direction? We need growth and lots of of it but how do we really do it. Instead of wanting to take away 45000 white farms why not get each farmer to partner up with a new farmer and help him on land allocated or found for them, We could double our agricultural economy, Many more Jobs and possibly lower local food prices, larger export capacity. Imagine if mining at present was rather opened up such as Canada to provide hundreds of mining licenses,We have so much resources we yet mining contributes nearly 8% of our Countries income, Thats more mines more work and less unemployment. Imagine if we really became people friendly where any business doing work in SA must charge less to the citizens. Cell phone companies stealing all our money, Petrol, Food prices,Banks rip us all off, Every company does as they please, Come on SA, Vote the scum out, We can grow this country and all sing along nicely, These ANC top 6 and 45 000 elite are not good enough !!!!
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m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 155 days ago
Where have you been in the past two years? Do you expect a quick bang! bang! and then what? Even Trevor has now seen the light. The Mampheles, the Tutus, Khozas, etc, have been continuing where they left prior to 1994. Such people do not fool around for the fun of it. The service delivery protests are not just sporadic incidents without a fundamental cause. The Marikanas, et al, may look like 'flash points', but nature is only one. Only fools see it in terms of isolated phenomena.

Mangqeshane

Posted 155 days ago
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Kalibananche I used to work at Land Affairs in Mpumalanga. Your suggestion of "Instead of wanting to take away 45000 white farms why not get each farmer to partner up with a new farmer and help him on land allocated or found for them", the current DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Laurie Bosman (whilst he was President of Agri Mpumalanga" once said that, that will never happen whilst he was still alive in this country. This was after a couple of land claimants suggested what you are saying. In a nutshell, there is too much talking and some policies are yielding results, drastic changes must be embraced to get this country forward

ZionLion

Posted 155 days ago
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People you need to remember JZ is not alone in government and the decisions made are made as a collective not buy Zuma and his family but discussed and agreed upon by the organization.... I am not politically affiliated.... JAH BLESS

GermanMouser

Posted 155 days ago
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Zuma must enjoy this short celebration, the vote of no confidence becoming a President is coming to haunt him, He will be recalled & Ramaphosa will be a President…, THIS IS EVIL MONOPOLY.
Beware the eyes of MARCH.
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proudmbongwa

Posted 155 days ago
If your dream or shall i say wish is true that will be a relief for our country.
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ZionLion

Posted 155 days ago
We shall wait n see
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GermanMouser

Posted 155 days ago
Now it's clear that ANC is at the risk of loosing the coming Elections...

sibujwana

Posted 155 days ago
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I hope Zuma won’t purge those who stand against him as he did with Mbeki’s supporters .The country needs them ,a country with a low skills base cannot afford tribalist tendency at the expense of our country . I have serious reservations for a person like Ramaphosa who recently ordered the mass execution of miners.One professor ,said the kind of leadership we elect says a lot about us .This is the right time for the formation of ACTIVE CITIZENS PARTY which will focus at the interest of our country’s development.The economic conundrum created by Zuma’s administration will an albatross to the next generation.The question will be :how did we get here ?

zindela

Posted 155 days ago
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33% of the delegates voted against Zuma; there has to be some encouragement in that!

Hi--Jack

Posted 155 days ago
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Well, at least this will keep Malema out in the cold...

Mangqeshane

Posted 155 days ago
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@sibujwana, nami I wish that no purging is done, with Mbeki's supporters, he had to. Look at the conduct of Lekota, Shilowa, Smuts, George, it hatred of Zuma that made them behave the way that they did. With Mkhuluwa's supporters except for Juju, Shivhambu, MAgaqa and Songezo, the rest, they had a different view of the leadership. I liked and respect the way that MAshatile went about it. That is democracy at its best

Where I disagree with a number of people is the notion that Zuma is a tribalist or his supporters. Look at his Cabinet, the Presidency itself during Zizi's time it looked liked a mini EC. Also dont you think it is proper to wait for the Marikana Commission, as you are accusing Ramaphosa of mass murdering miners, Justice Ian Farlam & his team may find it differently.

Its such baseless utterences (filled with envy) that tears this country apart
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GermanMouser

Posted 155 days ago
Now it's clear that ANC is at the risk of loosing the coming Elections...


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proudmbongwa

Posted 155 days ago
Calm down no one has your medication for your high high.
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GermanMouser

Posted 155 days ago
high high is for the short minded who use feelings when they comment, my mind is sober.
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sibujwana

Posted 155 days ago
Those people,in particular Lekota, who left to form Cope raised some signs of tribalist tendencies which were ignored by the ANC .When a person is campagning with a T-shirt written 100% zuluboy ,what is that ?Zuma appointed less qualitfied people for strategic sectors of our economy ?How can one explain the appointment of Malusi Gigaba as Min.. SOE...?

Ramaphosa is very central to Marikana tragedy, so there's no way that we cannot be sketchy about his election.The commision is delibarating on what is already in the public domain,it just formalising it .When a person is shareholder of Lonmin,ANC heavyweight,former Num leader and there 's rival Union involved (Amcu) , and the very same person ordered "concomitant actions" be taken against the mines .Is that baseless ? It is very disturbing ..especially from the former Unionist -because he should know that a company cannot take labour related issue out of bargaining council-negotiated terms of workers.