Global South African Weekly News Wrap 12 April 2012

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Global South African Weekly News Wrap Up 12 April 2012

Contents

Malemas last gasp chance .......................................................................................... 2A letter to Cde Chris Hani .......................................................................................... 3Hani and truth telling .................................................................................................. 5South Africans richer since 1994with more to come .......................................... 7Malemas last gasp chance .......................................................................................... 8FETs under spotlight ................................................................................................... 9Juju ban 'is like apartheid' ....................................................................................... 10ANC devises plan to address cronyism .................................................................... 12Premier's re-election shot in arm for Zuma ............................................................ 13End of the road for Malema ...................................................................................... 15

Parties react to ANC six ............................................................................................ 17Labour bills lay new ground rules for strikes ......................................................... 18Police watchdog stymied............................................................................................ 19Zuma's narrow interests dictate national agenda ................................................... 21Third attack on Khoza for insulting government ................................................ 22Manyi fury at Khoza .................................................................................................. 24Millions wanted to sing on Madiba's 94

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ANC has plans to renew, reconnect.......................................................................... 25ANC calls for new protocols to avoid tension in alliance ....................................... 27Pallo Jordan cautions ANC on corruption .............................................................. 28ANC moots US-style primaries selection .............................................................. 29ANC cant have its cake and eat it ........................................................................... 30A clear conflict of interests ........................................................................................ 32Bank denies Shaik was in line for executive post .................................................... 33Fracking not credible if ANC will benefitDA .................................................... 34ANCs North West power struggle is far from over ............................................... 35Mdluli: More dirt ....................................................................................................... 37Fransman brands Zille blatant racist in letter ..................................................... 39Hard work ahead to deepen trust ............................................................................. 41Corporate cash pile balloons on uncertainty ........................................................... 43State snubs call for new labour bills assessment ..................................................... 45Zuma warns rebels: It's cold out there .................................................................... 46We will never disappoint: Mpumalanga premier, ANC chair .............................. 48Debating does not mean no unity: Phosa ................................................................. 49Malemas suspension changes little .......................................................................... 50Malema followed partys example............................................................................ 51Broadside for Patels competition meddling......................................................... 53SKA delay could end in a draw ................................................................................ 55Finance plan scratches surface............................................................................... 56Poverty holds back change in SA cricket .............................................................. 57Malemas ANCYL needs help: Gigaba .................................................................... 59Zuma and Malema attend ZCC Easter service ....................................................... 59


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12 April 2012The New Age

Warren Mabona

Malemas last gasp chance

While he vowed to fight tooth and nail to save his position, expelled ANC Youth Leagueleader Julius Malema will today learn whether he will still be the president of the league.

The ANCs national disciplinary committee of appeals (NDCA) is expected to

deliberate on his future in a much-awaited appeal hearing session.

The possible outcomes of the hearing remained a closed book yesterday, but sourcesclose to the upper echelons of the ruling party told The New Age that Malemas

relationship with the ANC was history.

He is already out of the ANC ranks even before the NDCAverdict is pronounced,said a source who asked not to be named.

No one can call the president of his mother body a dictator and still remain in that

organisation. Besides, Malema has long ago strained his relationship with the ANC bycriticising its leadership.

Whether Malema will continue to pursue other avenues to contest his dismissal fromthe ANC is a big unknown.

Asked about the way forward if the verdict is to kick Malema out of the ruling party,ANCYL spokesperson Magdalene Moonsamy yesterday refused to speculate.

I cannot comment on a decision that we do not yet know, Moonsamy told The New

Age.

Political analyst Zamikhaya Maseti predicted the outright downfall of Malema. Hesaid the NDCA would have treated the situation differently had Malema not continuedto publicly attack the ANC leadership, especially by calling Zuma a dictator.

The NDCA will listen to Malemas lawyers when they argue for leniency, but thepanel will uphold the decision of the national disciplinary committee (NDC) to expelhim, Maseti said.

Another analyst, Aubrey Matshiqi agreed, saying Malemas latest attack on Zuma had

exacerbated his plight.

Given the fact that he has been suspended again, it will be difficult for the NDCA

not to uphold the decision of the NDC, Matshiqi said.

Analyst Prof Steven Friedman said the ruling party would not have suspended

Malema if it intended to cut all ties with him.


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As to what will happen in the hearing is unclear, but the NDCA has an option to

reduce the expulsion to a sentence, Friedman said. The judgment to expel Malemawill not be influenced by his suspension for attacking Zuma.

The NDCA verdict is likely to trigger jubilation in Malemas strongholds, especially

Seshego in Limpopo, if he emerges victorious. If the controversial leader loses thebattle for the ANC membership, his detractors like the disbanded KwaZulu-NatalANCYLs national executive committee will pop champagne corks.

As Zuma remarked, the ANCYL would have to elect a new president and move onafter the announcement of the NDCA verdict.

Malemas deputy, Ronald Lamola, is viewed by many as a possible suitable candidate

ahead of treasurer-general Pule Mabe. Mabe has recently dismissed speculation thathe harboured ambitions of taking over from Malema, while Lamola remained silenton the succession issue.

Both Matshiqi and Maseti could not immediately say who was likely to succeedMalema. Maseti said, in line with its constitution, Lamola would have to step in asinterim president.

Malema was expelled for bringing the party into disrepute and sowing divisions in itsranks. He has since appealed his expulsion, but put himself further at risk by attackingthe ANC leadership, while also remaining unrepentant about his utterances.

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The TimesPage 4

NashiraDavids

A letter to Cde Chris Hani

Cosatu general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has written to slain struggle stalwart Chris Hani onthe 19th anniversary of his death to "report" on not only South Africa's accomplishments sincethe adventof democracy, but also on the greed, factionalism and ill-discipline racking theruling tripartite alliance.

"It was on this day 19 years ago that you were brutally gunned down outside yourhome in Dawn Park," Vavi said in his 2518-word letter to the murdered SACPsecretary-general. The letter was published online yesterday.

"Your death continues to strike a very sensitive chord amongst the working people ofthis country, who saw in you their liberator and a general who was committed toleading them to their own version of a land of milk and honey."

Vavi "reassured" Hani that the working class was as "militant" as ever, always readyto free "humanity from the burdens of capitalism".


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"Just like unemployment, inequality is also racialised. While black South Africans'salaries increased by 38% between 1995 and 2008, the incomes of white SouthAfricans rose by 83.5%!"

He went on to bemoan problems within the ANC, the SACP and Cosatu alliance. He

said there were people who - unlike Hani, who was modest and chose to serve theworking class - were using "the movement as a step ladder to their careers". Themovement, he said, was "at war with itself" and plagued by "opportunism, cherry-picking on corruption and character assassinations".

Vavi said that if Hani were alive today he would not have allowed the "ill-discipline"in the alliance's ranks or the shouting down of "older comrades". "You would havebeen in the opposite of the new class of tenderpreneurs. You would have confrontedthe blossoming factionalism that is tearing our movement apart. You would havecondemned the mediocrity these factions impose on our people and we know youwould have decried the rollovers that rob the poor of the services they are yearning

for."

SABC news reported that Hani's widow, Limpho, said the notion of a caring ANC didnot exist anymore.

At the commemoration ceremony in Boksburg on the East Rand, she reportedlybemoaned the divisions in the ANC, saying the party had changed since Hani's death.

''What happened to the caring ANC,'' Limpho Hani asked.

In its anniversary statement, the SACP said Hani often said that communists shouldlearn from the past, analyse the present and act strategically to change the future.

"[Hani's] enduring popularity, even 19 years after his cruel death, was earned not withself-serving press statements and empty slogans, but by serving loyally within thecollective ranks of the SACP, the ANC, and MK."

The SACP said Zuma's administration had built on the advances made by the ANCsince 1994 in areas such as healthcare and education.

"We called for increased investment in infrastructure and [Zuma] has announced in

the State of the Nation address in 2012 a multibillion-rand infrastructure programme,the first on such a large scale! Revolutionaries must be at the forefront of building onthese advances in order to tackle the challenges of unemployment, poverty andinequality."

The party said "liberals" and their "mainstream media backers" must be exposed as"the ideological third force that seeks to abuse our institutions of democracy"

11 April 2012

The TimesPage 13

S'ThembisoMsomi


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Hani and truth telling

Martin Thembisile "Chris" Hani was a charismatic and popular leader, but he certainly was nopopulist demagogue.

Over the last three years of his life, which he spent back in South Africa after the unbanningof the ANC and other liberation movements, Hani was often unfairly portrayed as a dogmaticmilitarist who was unenthusiastic about the multiparty negotiations process championed bythe likes of ANC president Nelson Mandela.

Second only to Mandela in terms of popularity among the country's black workingclass communities - and given his prominent roles in the South African CommunistParty and the ANC's military wing uMkhontowe Sizwe - perhaps it was only naturalthat Hani would come to be known as a "hawk" in opposition to Mandela, the alleged"dove".

But you needed to go beyond screaming newspaper headlines and unhelpful labels tofully appreciate what Hani stood for.

That he espoused radical politics and propagated economic policy approaches that hebelieved would be pro-poor cannot be denied.

His great oratory skills and the mysticism that came with him having been one of theleading lights of the ANC's guerrilla warfare made him a favourite among the youth -from young lions in poverty-stricken townships and squatter camps to the socialist-oriented students at the country's ivory towers of higher education.

What distinguished Hani from populists was his courage and ability to tell the trutheven when it was not something his audience was ready to hear.

I remember once as a high school pupil skipping school with friends to go and listento Hani speak at the nearby University of Durban Westville (sorry, mom).

The atmosphere was electric, with university students singing militant songs anddenouncing the ANC's decision to suspend the armed struggle while it sought anegotiated settlement with the National Party government and other political partiesthat participated in the apartheid system.

The radical students certainly expected Hani to join them in condemning thissupposed treachery by Mandela and other members of the ANC national executivecommittee.

With state-sponsored violence continuing to claim the lives of ordinary folks eachday, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, the crowd expected Hani to defy Mandela anddeclare that armed action would continue.

To their disappointment, he didn't. Hani devoted much of his speech to explaininghow the NEC had arrived at the decision and why, since it was binding to all ANCstructures, it should be respected.


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12 April 2012

Business Day

Page 1Ron Derby

South Africans richer since 1994 with more to come

South Africans have grown wealthier in the 18 years since democracy due to lowerpopulation growth and greater social welfareand wallets will grow over the nextfive years, a new study shows.

Unemployment remains a huge problem for the country, but falling fertility rates anda healthier population would create greater prosperity in the long run.

Gross domestic product (GDP) per capitaconsidered an indicator of a countrysstandard of livinghas risen 31% in SA since 1994, from R28536 to R37442,according to an Investec research report released yesterday. Household wealth hadgrown "significantly" due to social welfare payments such as child support grants andpensions, Investec economist Annabel Bishop said.

A real GDP growth rate above the population growth rate of 1% would cause GDPper capita to rise noticeably further and make South Africans even wealthier, MsBishop said, with the bank expecting an average of 4,5% per capita over the next fiveyears.

The South African Institute of Race Relations predicts fertility rates will drop belowthe replacement level of two children per couple by 2040.

Ms Bishop said there had been a significant downward trend in population growth, toonly 1% year on year last year, as fertility levels fell back, while life expectancydeclined during the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Achieving a single-digit rate of unemployment would require the properimplementation of the governments R3-trillion infrastructure spend, she said.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that governments around theworld are failing to prepare adequately for the consequences of healthier populations.In its Global Financial Stability Report released yesterday, the IMF included a chapteron the financial effect of people living longer. It said "few governments or pensionproviders adequately recognise longevity risk".

If the issue were not addressed soon, it "could have large negative effects on alreadyweakened private-and public-sector balance sheets, making them more vulnerable toother shocks and potentially affecting financial stability", the IMF report says.


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Warren Mabona

Malemas last gasp chance

While he vowed to fight tooth and nail to save his position, expelled ANC Youth Leagueleader Julius Malema will today learn whether he will still be the president of the league.

The ANCs national disciplinary committee of appeals (NDCA) is expected to

deliberate on his future in a much-awaited appeal hearing session.

The possible outcomes of the hearing remained a closed book yesterday, but sourcesclose to the upper echelons of the ruling party told The New Age that Malemas

relationship with the ANC was history.

He is already out of the ANC ranks even before the NDCA verdict is pronounced,

said a source who asked not to be named.

No one can call the president of his mother body a dictator and still remain in that

organisation. Besides, Malema has long ago strained his relationship with the ANC bycriticising its leadership.

Whether Malema will continue to pursue other avenues to contest his dismissal fromthe ANC is a big unknown.

Asked about the way forward if the verdict is to kick Malema out of the ruling party,ANCYL spokesperson Magdalene Moonsamy yesterday refused to speculate.

I cannot comment on a decision that we do not yet know, Moonsamy told The New

Age.

Political analyst Zamikhaya Maseti predicted the outright downfall of Malema. Hesaid the NDCA would have treated the situation differently had Malema not continuedto publicly attack the ANC leadership, especially by calling Zuma a dictator.

The NDCA will listen to Malemas lawyers when they argue for leniency, but thepanel will uphold the decision of the national disciplinary committee (NDC) to expelhim, Maseti said.

Another analyst, Aubrey Matshiqi agreed, saying Malemas latest attack on Zuma had

exacerbated his plight.

Given the fact that he has been suspended again, it will be difficult for the NDCA

not to uphold the decision of the NDC, Matshiqi said.

Analyst Prof Steven Friedman said the ruling party would not have suspended

Malema if it intended to cut all ties with him.


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As to what will happen in the hearing is unclear, but the NDCA has an option to

reduce the expulsion to a sentence, Friedman said. The judgment to expel Malemawill not be influenced by his suspension for attacking Zuma.

The NDCA verdict is likely to trigger jubilation in Malemas strongholds, especially

Seshego in Limpopo, if he emerges victorious. If the controversial leader loses thebattle for the ANC membership, his detractors like the disbanded KwaZulu-NatalANCYLs national executive committee will pop champagne corks.

As Zuma remarked, the ANCYL would have to elect a new president and move onafter the announcement of the NDCA verdict.

Malemas deputy, Ronald Lamola, is viewed by many as a possible suitable candidate

ahead of treasurer-general Pule Mabe. Mabe has recently dismissed speculation thathe harboured ambitions of taking over from Malema, while Lamola remained silenton the succession issue.

Both Matshiqi and Maseti could not immediately say who was likely to succeedMalema. Maseti said, in line with its constitution, Lamola would have to step in asinterim president.

Malema was expelled for bringing the party into disrepute and sowing divisions in itsranks. He has since appealed his expulsion, but put himself further at risk by attackingthe ANC leadership, while also remaining unrepentant about his utterances.

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The New AgeWarren Mabona

FETs under spotlight

President Jacob Zuma yesterday called for a change in the publics mindset in order to enableFurther Education and Training (FET) colleges to become institutions of choice for youngpeople.

Zuma was speaking during a skills development summit held in Irene, outsidePretoria. Attended by 50 principals from various colleges, the gathering was aimed atdeliberating the role played by FETs in the countrys skills development strategy.

Education MECs and several cabinet ministersincluding MalusiGigaba,ThulasiNxesi and Blade Nzimandeattended.

Zuma said the national skills fund and the sector education and training authoritywould allocate R2.5bn towards the refurbishment and construction of new FETs overthe next three years.


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FET colleges are also of immense importance like universities, given the decision we

have taken to move beyond the first phase of our transition, the attainment of politicalfreedom and to build a more prosperous South Africa, Zuma said.

To achieve prosperity, we need to tackle head on the triple challenges of poverty,

unemployment and inequality. The president said the government already had goodplans for meaningful economic development and job creation.

These included the launch last year of the new growth path framework, which set thecreation of decent work opportunities as the central economic goal of government.

Zuma said in order for the FET colleges to succeed, they would have to perform betterand be more effective. He said the curricula would need to be updated constantly toreflect changes in the world of work.

The exposure of lecturers to the realities of workplaces and new technologies and

work processes would have to be enhanced.

We want school leavers to be able to come back to the education and training systemand benefit from the vocational training, Zuma said.

We are happy that our social partners such as labour, business and the community

are working with us to help students obtain the necessary experience and workopportunities. Progress made with regards to learnerships and internships was an

encouraging development, Zuma said.

8 April 2012

Sunday TimesSibusiso Ngalwa and Mayibongew Maqhina

Juju ban 'is like apartheid'

Suspended ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's lawyers havelikened his latest suspension from the ruling party to a banning order

under apartheid and questioned the national disciplinary committee(NDC) jurisdiction to charge him.

The lawyers wrote to the head of the NDC - Deputy Science and

Technology Minister Derek Hanekom - telling him that Malema'ssuspension was a violation of the country's constitution and those of

the ANC and the youth league.

In the letter seen by the Sunday Times, Advocate PatricMtshaulana saidthe reasons given by the NDC for Malema's suspension were too wide and

did not hold water.

"In substance, what the NDC has done is to impose a banning order onMalema prohibiting him from making any statement on any matter


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pertaining to the ANC ... The utterances of the word 'ANC' would fallfoul of the banning order. Even under the apartheid regime, banning

orders could be challenged merely on the basis of the wide ambit oftheir terms," Mtshaulana wrote.

"It is simply unlawful to seek to ban Malema from addressing meetings

'as an invited guest'. Similarly, the condition that he 'may not makeany public statement on any matter pertaining to the ANC', even if such

matters were in praise of the ANC, is simply a flagrant violation ofhis constitutional right to freedom of expression," said Mtshaulana.

Malema was handed an "immediate suspension" on Wednesday for callingPresident Jacob Zuma a "dictator". In an unusual move, the NDC decided

to bring charges against Malema rather than wait for a complaint from amember or structures of the party. However, Mtshaulana questioned the

NDC's decision to institute disciplinary measures, arguing that itsactions were "unlawful and improper".

"The NDC as a body cannot be the complainant, the instituting body andthe adjudicating body all at the same time. This offends one of themost basic rules of natural justice [that] 'one cannot be a judge inhis own cause or case'. The proposed recusal of certain members of theNDC would not cure this defect. The fact remains that it is the NDCwhich has charged and it is the NDC which will judge. In any case, theNDC should have revealed the names of those who took the decision."

But in the suspension letter to Malema, Hanekom said the NDC memberswho took the decision to charge Malema would recuse themselves from the

disciplinary process.

The NDC, which is appointed by the ANC national executive committee(NEC), is made up of nine members.

Mtshaulana said Malema's criticism of Zuma did not constitute a case ofmisconduct but was merely an opinion on "the state of the ANC under the

current leadership of president Zuma". "These views may or may not becorrect, but they remain nothing more than opinions," wrote Mtshaulanain the letter dated April 4 2012.

The "ban" appears to have failed to silence Malema who attended twochurch services in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape on Friday. He toldcongregants at the Last Move Ministries in Cuba Township that his

enemies were plotting to kill him. "They have not only turned againstus, but they are also planning our death. You have an obligation,bishop, to pray so that what they are planning does not succeed."

Malema said he would challenge any form of injustice against him. Butit is not clear whether he will attend the youth league's special NEC

meeting at Luthuli House tomorrow.

If he does it would be in violation of his latest suspension.

Hanekom replied to Mtshaulana's letter on Thursday but refused todivulge the contents of his response to the media.


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Meanwhile, Zuma attended the ANC provincial conference in Nelspruit,Mpumalanga, on Friday, where he told delegates that the youth league

was not an independent organisation.

"This youth league belongs to the ANC. It does not belong to itself.Once you begin to develop ideas that indeed it could be an organisation

of itself you have missed the point. Some people forget that some of uswho are old come from the youth. You can't tell us about the youth,"

said Zuma.

8 April 2012Sunday TimesCaiphusKgosana

ANC devises plan to address cronyism

The ANC has proposed setting up its own electoral commission to run the

party's internal elections and scrutinise potential candidates.

The ruling party has also critiqued its own cadre deployment policy,admitting that it had been abused to deploy unqualified and unsuitable

people to top positions in government and other institutions.

This is contained in a discussion document on organisational renewal tobe released ahead of the party's policy conference in June.

Titled "Organisational Renewal: Building the ANC as a movement fortransformation and a strategic centre of power", the document will be

discussed at the policy conference. If the proposals are agreed to theywill be taken to its national conference in December for further

discussion and adoption.

As an attempt to enhance the ruling party's electoral process, it hasbeen proposed that a permanent electoral commission be set up at

national, provincial and regional level, whose term of office will

correspond with that of the executive committee at that level.

Such a commission would have the power to scrutinise nominations ofcandidates by branches to determine if those candidates are suitablefor leadership positions. It will have the power to reject candidates.

It is suggested that the electoral commission work closely with theANC's Integrity Commission, which was set up to deal with allegationslevelled at potential candidates on matters of integrity and ethics.

At the moment the ANC outsources the running of its internal electionsto the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa - an independent

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The ANC has been rocked by fierce contests where candidates arenominated and elected via factional slates and money and the promise of

positions is bandied about to influence delegates to support particularleaders.

It has now come up with a set of rules that are to guide lobbying

which, if adopted, will make the following practices acts ofmisconduct:

Raising and using funds and other resources to campaign for electioninto ANC structures; The production of T-shirts, posters and otherparaphernalia to promote a candidate; Promising positions or otherincentives or threatening to withhold these as a means of gaining

support; Attacks on the integrity of competing candidates, exceptlegitimate critiques related to the substance of the contest s; and

Failure by a candidate to take steps to stop acts of misconduct done intheir name.

ANC Deputy President KgalemaMotlanthe rebuked members of the youth

league in Limpopo for wearing T-shirts bearing his face, with theinscription: "Motlanthe for President".

Meanwhile, the party has admitted that there have been serious problemswith the implementation of its cadre deployment policy.

It said the policy had resulted in the deploying of party loyalistsinto positions of serious responsibility and authority without adequate

preparation.

"This is tantamount to sailing into the deep seas without a compass, orgiving enthusiastic activists weapons to go and carry out operations

without basic military training.

"As a result this has discredited cadre deployment and destroyed someof our comrades, who ultimately could not perform and had to beremoved," it said.

Critics have blamed cadre deployment for many of government's ills,including the collapse of crucial departments in provinces such as theEastern Cape and Limpopo.

The ruling party has suggested that in future, no cadre be deployedwithout proper training, qualifications and preparation for the role.

8 April 2012Sunday TimesSibongakonke Shoba

Premier's re-election shot in arm for Zuma

President Jacob Zuma's bid for a second term as ANC leader has receiveda major boost with the re-election of his ally as party leader inMpumalanga province.


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qualify, you need to [win] a certain number of branches to contest. Ifyou don't, you can't contest."

He called for unity and promised not to purge his rivals. "A cabinetreshuffle is not on the agenda. The [leadership] outcome should not beutilised as a measure to determine the performance of MECs. That is a

wrong tool ... we [reshuffle] when we see that the work of governmentis being compromised."

Leading up to the conference, youth league provincial chairman KhotsoMotloung was removed as mayor of Gert Sibande district municipality,and Makola was suspended as manager of the Nkangala districtmunicipality.

These developments were seen as part of a strategy to purge those

opposed to Mabuza. But he denied this yesterday.

5 April 2012

The New AgeWarren Mabona

End of the road for Malema

The charmed political life of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema finally seems to bereaching its end following yesterdays announcement of his immediate suspension from theANC by its national disciplinary committee (NDC) chairperson Derek Hanekom.

Yesterdays announcement comes in the wake of Tuesdays unprecedented mediabriefing by the ANCs top leadership where they sent an unambiguous message to its

membership that acts of indiscipline in the party will no longer be tolerated and willbe acted upon with the firmness they deserve.

In announcing Malemas suspension, Hanekom said the NDC had considered thenature and seriousness of Malemas recent public utterances about President Jacob

Zuma.

After due consideration, the NDC was satisfied that the utterances constituted a very

serious violation of the ANC constitution, Hanekom said.

The NDC also took cognisance of the fact that the said utterances received

widespread print and electronic media coverage.

Malema launched a scathing attack on Zuma while addressing a gathering at WitsUniversity in Johannesburg on Friday. He hurled a string of denigrating utterances atZuma, including a claim that democracy in the country was being replaced bydictatorship under Zumas administration.

According to Hanekom, NDC members who participated in the decision to institute

disciplinary action against Malema would have to recuse themselves and they wouldnot adjudicate or take part in the pending disciplinary action against him. This was in


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keeping with the principle and spirit of natural justice and to remove any perceptionof bias.

Malema was previously expelled from the ANC for bringing the party into disreputeand sowing divisions in its ranks. He has since appealed the decision. The latest

sanction has immediately clipped Malemas political wings, thus casting him intoobscurity pending the outcomes of the disciplinary hearing.

It also means Malema shot himself in the foot by attacking Zuma, and the ANC,seemingly fed up with his sporadic tirades against its leadership, had no alternativebut to cast him into the political wilderness.

Asked to clarify the latest suspension, ANC spokesperson Keith Khoza said thesuspension was meant to give the NDC a chance to investigate charges againstMalema. The investigation would determine the need for disciplinary action.

If the National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal upholds the decision of the NDCto expel Malema, he will cease to be an ANC member. This means any processes ofthe latest suspension will be stopped, Khoza said.

Political analyst ZamikhayaMaseti described Malemas suspension as the ANCsstrategy to deny the controversial leader access to ANC events and gatherings. How

do you suspend someone who has already been expelled? he asked.

Its to make sure that he does not make further public sta tement to harm the image ofthe ANC and that of Jacob Zuma.

Another analyst, Paul Graham of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, saidthere was a collision course between Malema and his lawyers in terms of fighting forhim to remain in the ANC.

Malemas lawyers are contesting his dismissal through legal channels, while he is

fighting at a political level, said Graham.

Most political parties were reluctant to comment on the suspension, saying it was aninternal matter of the ANC.

MudiniMaivha, spokesperson for the Pan Africanist Congress, said: Its a matter ofprinciple that the PAC does not interfere in the internal politics of other parties. DAyouth leader MakashuleGana cited political interference as the reason for their silenceon the matter.

Several attempts to get comment from the ANCYL were not successful.


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Parties react to ANC six

The unprecedented media briefing by the ANCs top six was a necessary move todemonstrate they were in charge and in control of the party.

The DA and Freedom Front Plus (FF+) yesterday said the decision by President JacobZuma to address problems within the organisation was an attempt to show thatsuspended ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was not bigger than the rulingparty.

DA leader in Parliament LindiweMazibuko said there was a lot at stake in the ANCahead of the all-important elective conference in Mangaung in December.

There is a great deal of political posturing ahead of Mangaung, said Mazibuko,adding that the press conference by Zuma and the other top five leaders was part ofthe ruling partys plan to isolate Malema.

Zuma, his deputy KgalemaMotlanthe, secretary-generalGwedeMantashe, deputysecretary-general ThandiModise, treasurer Matthews Phosa and chairpersonBalekaMbete all presented a united front on Tuesday at Luthuli House and spokeagainst alien behaviour and indiscipline in the party.

Mazibuko said this show of unity was necessary to show the public that the leadersacted as one.

It was clear to the public that the purpose was to show unity. Its an indication how

contested Mangaung is, she said.

Mazibuko said the united front by the six also demonstrated that Malema was not aspowerful as he was made out to be.

FF+ leader Pieter Mulder said the top six had waited for far too long before they gaveMalema a dressing down.

Shakespeare, in one his plays, said the lady doth protest too much. Maybe they are

overreacting, Mulder said.

He said they had given Malema too much attention. They made him bigger than heis, said the FF+ leader.

Mulder added that it was still a long way to the elective conference in Mangaung. Hesaid it would have served the ruling party better if they had acted earlier on Malema.

One of the things that were causing tension in the ANC was that there was no debateon the succession, Mulder said.

The ANC has said the succession debate would be opened in October, duringnominations for the top six positions.


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The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) welcomed thestance taken by the top six to speak against ill disciplined.

The time had come for the disciplinary proceedings against Malema to come to an endso the organisation can move forward, said Nehawu. The ANC has to focus on

fighting unemployment, poverty and inequality, the union said in a statement.

5 April 2012Business Day

Page 3SA Press Association

Labour bills lay new ground rules for strikes

Chief director of collective bargaining ThembinkosiMkalipi says trade unions will need to

conduct ballots to ensure that the majority of members agree on the need to strike.

High levels of illegal strikes will be addressed through amendments to SAs labour laws,according to the Department of Labour.

The first in a series of public briefings on the departments labour law amendmentbillsthe Labour Relations Act Amendment Bill and the Basic Conditions ofEmployment Act Amendment Billbegan in Johannesburg yesterday.

Chief director of collective bargaining ThembinkosiMkalipi told the briefings thattrade unions would need to conduct ballots to ensure that the majority of members

agreed on the need to strike. It was understood that unlawful acts, such as damage toproperty and violence, in support of industrial action, often occurred where only aminority supported the cause for the strike.

Unions would also have to abide by picketing rules or lose protection for their strike.If employers contravened picketing agreements, they would lose the right to employtemporary or "scab" labour while the strike lasted.

To address illegal strikes affecting essential services, the bill provided for an essentialservices committee to determine which services qualified as essential. It would alsobe responsible for the negotiation of minimum service level agreements.

"Our colleagues in labour want everyone to go on strike, but business want nobody togo on strike," Mr Mkalipi said.

Greater powers would be given to the labour minister when the bill was passed intolaw. The minister would determine the threshold level of representation of a union toimprove workers access to union protection in sectors where this need was not fully

realised.

The minister would also be empowered to set wage increases, as opposed to minimumwages, for vulnerable workers in certain sectors.


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The amendments would also protect workers by tightening up the law around labourbroking. Temporary work would be defined as work that lasted no more than sixmonths, Mr Mkalipi said.

DumisaniDakile, of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said labour was

"highly disappointed" that broking was not outlawed in the bills. "Slavery was farbetter than labour brokering," he said.

Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant submitted the bills to the Cabinet on March 14, andtheir submission to Parliament was approved the following week.

Mr Mkalipi said Parliament could put the bills up for further public hearings, but thedepartment had conducted these in 2010 and would not make further changes.

10 April 2012The Times

Page 4Graeme Hosken

Police watchdog stymied

With an allocation of R27-million less than its budget requirements,

and murder and police criminality increasing rapidly, the newlyestablished Independent Police Investigative Directorate has its workcut out.

The directorate will focus on class 1 offences and the eradication ofbent police. It will no longer concentrate on minor offences such asmaladministration.

With mounting allegations of police hit squads, the new body, which hasonly 139 investigators, has been ordered to solve thousands of murder,rape, assault and corruption cases involving police across the country

every year.

Since the 2008-2009 financial year, cases of police brutality, murder,assault and misconduct have shot up: KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Western

Cape and Eastern Cape rank among the country's worst in this regard.

According to directorate head Francois Beukman the challenge is

immense.

Institute of Security Studies policing specialist Johan Burger has hitout at the insufficient budget allocated to the new body.

"The problem is budget shortfalls which could greatly inhibit the

directorate's capacity to perform its duties. If the government isreally serious about the directorate achieving its mandate it will haveto give greater attention to the organisation's budget," he said.


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Beukman said that though the directorate had asked for R63-million inthe next financial year on top of its R196-million budget it had been

granted only R36-million.

"For the 2013 financial year we asked for R84-million but were givenonly an extra R44-million, and for the 2014 financial year we have been

promised R53-million instead of the R101-million we asked for.

"With the Independent Police Investigative Directorate Act theportfolio committee was wise in ensuring that we are more focused,thereby freeing up investigators to focus on the more serious crimes.

"Other than serious crimes, we are also focusing on systemic corruption

within the police and the metro police services.

"The idea behind this is to ensure that we attack this cancer withincertain elements of the law enforcement agencies," he said.

Beukman said that though the defunct Independent Complaints Directoratewas a "Jack-of-all-trades", the new directorate was far more focused.

"We will now be able to appoint more investigators who believe inproper oversight, integrity, accountability and human rights,especially in trouble provinces.

"We have established a corporate governance unit that will deal with

monitoring and evaluation to ensure investigations are conductedproperly," he said.

The reference to monitoring and evaluation applies to the recent

suspension of senior KwaZulu-Natal officers of the directorate inconnection with the Cato Manor organised crime unit's alleged hit-

squad.

"A huge risk for us is that a lot of our staff are former policemen who

are now involved in investigating allegations of serious crimescommitted by police.

"These monitoring measures will ensure that collusion between

directorate investigators and the police is stamped out."

INVESTIGATIONS UNDER WAY

CASES the IPID will focus on include:

The shooting of eight friends killed on March 24 in Inanda, KwaZulu-

Natal, by members of the Tactical Response Team. All were alleged to berobbery suspects and were said to have been shot while resisting

arrest.

Cato Manor organised crime unit. Members of the unit are beinginvestigated in connection with the deaths of 51 suspects. No arrests.

Two senior IPID members are the subjects of an internal investigationinto the conduct of their investigations into the suspicious deaths.


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Three worst provinces for deaths in police custody and through policeaction in the 2010-2011 financial year: KwaZulu-Natal: 390 cases,

Gauteng: 219 cases, and Eastern Cape: 157 cases.

8 April 2012

Sunday TimesSunday Times Editorial

Zuma's narrow interests dictate national agenda

THIS week the axe finally fell on controversial ANC Youth League

president Julius Malema.

After four years of failing to take firm action against the firebrandleader over numerous statements that have divided both the country andthe ruling party, the ANC's national disciplinary committee slappedMalema with an immediate suspension and effectively banned him fromaddressing party platforms.

The committee took the decision just days after Malema shifted his

propaganda war against President Jacob Zuma into high gear by publiclyaccusing the ANC leader of being a dictator.

Zuma, who will be seeking re-election as ANC president at the party'snational conference in December, was immediately prodded into action bythe criticism.

In an unprecedented move, the president and the five other most seniorANC officials convened a news conference where they berated Malema forhis remarks and tried to convince the public that they were united,despite claims that some of them backed the youth league.

A day later, Malema was suspended.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of decisive action by the ruling

party's top leadership would have been applauded.

But its timing suggests that the motive has nothing to do with thecountry's interests - or even those of the ANC - and everything to dowith saving Zuma's political career.

Malema has, over the years, insulted everyone from former presidentThabo Mbeki to DA leader Helen Zille, from retired Anglican archbishopand struggle stalwart Desmond Tutu to cabinet ministers, without any

serious action being taken against him by Luthuli House.

Malema's big mouth suited the ANC as his insults served to intimidate

those who were opposed to the party's bid to stop Zuma's prosecution onfraud and corruption charges related to the arms deal.


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When the public complained about the disrespect shown by the young

politician towards his elders, the ANC would put out statementsdefending Malema's "militancy" and the youth league's "radical" stance.

But now that Malema has turned on Zuma - wanting him ousted at the

December conference in favour of Deputy President KgalemaMotlanthe - heis being denounced as "ill-disciplined" and Luthuli House is pulling

out all the stops to get rid of him.

The Malema saga is a reflection of all that is wrong with the currentadministration at both Luthuli House, and more worryingly, the UnionBuildings.

Everything - from Malema's suspension to the controversial

reinstatement of police crime intelligence chief Richard Mdluli - seemsgeared to secure Zuma a second term.

10 April 2012Business DayPage 1Sure Kamhunga and Alistair Anderson

Third attack on Khoza for insulting government

The governments chief spokesman, Jimmy Manyi, on Monday attacked

Nedbank chairman ReuelKhoza for daring to question the quality ofpolitical leadership, and asked whether his views reflected those ofthe banks board.

He also questioned whether Mr Khozas comments would be supported by

the Old Mutual-owned banks shareholders and customers, and hinted theymight take their business elsewhere.

This is the third personal attack on Mr Khoza by government and AfricanNational Congress (ANC) officials. It could polarise the alreadystrained relationship between the government and the private sector, a

business executive said yesterday, as a body representing business

leaders defended Mr Khoza. It could also prevent some chairmen of JSE-listed companies, whose customers included government departments, from

making critical comments about the government, the executive said.

Mr Manyi said Mr Khoza had chosen to "insult" a government from whosetransformation policies he had benefited. He claimed Mr Khoza had

failed on his watch to identify a black person for CE, and thatNedbanks chief financial officer RaisibeMorathi was not in charge of a

critical area.

All the big four banks are currently led by white CEOs, althoughStandard Bank has made SimTshabalala one of the groups three deputy

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In Mr Khozas statement first carried by Business Day he hadexpressed concern about a "strange breed" of leaders who appeared

incapable of dealing with the demands of modern-day governance andleadership.

His comments were the first by the chairman of one of South Africas

big banks since the government said it would review the judiciary, andsome ANC leaders called for a review of the constitution.

Soon after, Absa s outgoing chairman Garth Griffin indirectly took a

swipe at the government, when he said South Africa no longer had theluxury for "endless" debates and plans to chart its growth path, andcalled for a clear policy framework to solve the countrys problems.

ANC secretary-general GwedeMantashe last week criticised Mr Khoza,

accusing him of choosing the wrong platform, while Police MinisterNathiMthethwa said Mr Khozas comments amounted to "twisted logic".

Said Mr Manyi: "Given Dr Khozas putative concern about the state orlevels of public accountability, it is only fair to ask to what extenthis statement reflects the views and beliefs of his illustrious anddiverse board which now includes eminent champions of transformation;or is he out on a lone frolic here?

"Dr Khoza insinuates that our political leadership is incapable; rich,coming from a Nedbanker who has failed to surpass the transformation

record of former chair Chris Liebenberg, under whose stewardshipPeoples Bank was established with black people occupying meaningful

positions."

But Business Leadership SAs vice-president Leslie Maasdorp said: "Thepersonal attack last week by Mr Mantashe was unjustified,

inappropriate and cannot go unchallenged.

"One can only hope that these views are not shared more broadly amongst

the ANC and government leadership. Not so long ago, government, throughits National Development Plan, called for an active citizenry andsocial compact to help chart a new course and vision for our country,"Mr Maasdorp said.

He said the potential for a forward-looking partnership being forgedbetween business and the government was remote if the private sector

was to stick to running companies and not question or criticisegovernment policies.

The Federation of Unions of South Africas general secretary Dennis

George said he thought the government had acted inappropriately byattacking Mr Khoza.

"We have institutions such as Nedlac (the National Economic Development

and Labour Council). We have the New Growth Path. Political partieshave space to air their views. We must listen to what business and

labour leaders are saying. I think it is very unfair to criticiseNedbanks chairman in that personal way," he said.

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The TimesPage 4

Staff reporter

Manyi fury at Khoza

Government spokesman Jimmy Manyi yesterday launched a vitriolic attackon Nedbank chairman Reuel Khoza and his assertion that "our politicalleadership is degenerating".

Manyi hit back by saying that Khoza should highlight new possibilitiesand not "attempt to discredit the government".

Khoza said in his chairman's report after the bank's 2011 annualresults that the government was "fast losing the checks and balancesthat are necessary to prevent a recurrence of the past".

Manyi said Khoza's statement "shows disingenuousness and that his booksaren't exactly balanced".

"It would help if Dr Khoza were to tell us exactly which checks andbalances are being lost so 'fast' and which recurrence of the past -and which past he fears so much," said Manyi.

He said Khoza must explain why he had called the country's leadership

"putative" while the bank's management had a positive dispositiontowards it.

He said the government had increased employment by 365000 since therecession and had invested R8.4 billion in the economy .

"[South Africans in] more than 40% of households surveyed believe that

the level of both violent and non-violent crime decreased in their areaof residence from 2008 to 2010," said Manyi.

11 April 2012

The Times

Page 3Sapa

Millions wanted to sing on Madiba's 94th

More than 20 million people in South Africa are needed to sing Happy Birthday to formerpresident Nelson Mandela this year in a bid to break a world record.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and Lead SA yesterday announced theattempt to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. "We want to encouragethe nation to join in," they said.


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Last year, the Basic Education Department and the civic participation group arrangedfor millions of schoolchildren to sing to Mandela at 8am on his birthday, on July 18.

Lead SA spokesman Yusuf Abramjee said he was confident the public would showtheir love and affection for Mandela by singing to him on his 94th birthday.

"In addition to the millions of schoolchildren, we want people in offices, in factoriesand those out on the streets to join in ."

The Shout Foundation, a movement aimed at reducing crime, committed 94 singers torecord the song for distribution in the run-up to Mandela's birthday.

11 April 2012

Business Day

Page 2Natasha Marrian

ANC has plans to renew, reconnect

The African National Congress (ANC) wants to turn back the process in which it is becominga parliamentary party whose prime focus is on fighting internal power battles and winningelections, the organisation said yesterday.

The ANC has proposed changes to help it renew and modernise itself while remainingtrue to its tradition and character.

Its organisational renewal document, to be discussed by branch members in the run-up to its policy conference in June, proposes wide-ranging reforms to address itsweaknessesincluding its social distance from its main power base, the masses, andinstitutionalised factionalism, ill-discipline and disunity.

The release of the document follows the summary suspension of the president of thepartys youth league, Julius Malema, for ill-discipline, and an attempt at a show ofunity by its top six leaders, who are battling to manage the fall-out from thedisciplinary processes against the firebrand youth leader.

The divisions in the ANC are linked to its December elective conference inMangaung, where the party presidency will be up for grabs.

ANC Gauteng provincial secretary and national executive committee member DavidMakhura told a media briefing to launch the document yesterday that the ANC had towage a struggle to resist efforts to transform it into a narrow party preoccupied withleadership battles or winning elections.

The party wants to stamp out the use of money in buying votes, the disruption ofmeetings and conferences by disgruntled members, the "winner-takes-all" slateapproach to elections, the abuse of symbols including flags, songs and T-shirts, and

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Mr Makhura admitted that not enough was being done to stamp out "institutionalisedfactionalism", which was described in the document as a weakness.

Prof Steven Friedman, of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, said the battleraging in the ANC was not a simple question of succession, but was directly linked to

factions vying for control of resources brought by political power.

On discipline, the party is reviewing whether lawyers should continue to be used indisciplinary matters "to ensure that the organisation does not end up in a situationwherein it is extraordinarily difficult to bring errant members into line".

Mr Malema used a legal team to defend him at his party disciplinary hearing. Theprocedure, which started at the end of August last year, has not yet wrapped up, and asecond appeal is to be heard this week.

The ANCs head of organising and campaigns, FikileMbalula, said the document also

proposed a disciplinary structure that "everyone is comfortable with", and one whichis not made up of "peers" who may have differed in the past with the person beingdisciplined.

The weaknesses identified in the renewal document have been raised at past ANCconferences, but Mr Mbalula said renewal was a process which would take place overtime.

Mr Makhura said after 18 years in government, the ANC could now draw "boldconclusions" from its experiences.

A proposed integrity commission would also be put in place for the party itself toinvestigate allegations of corruption, abuse of power and errant conduct by members.

On internal elections, the party has mooted setting up a permanent electoralcommission, whose chair man should be elected along with leaders at ANC electiveconferences. This commission would screen candidates nominated by branches forleadership positions in the ANC.

Political education and "cadre development" were identified as key interventions indealing with the challenges facing the party.

The ANC wants to adopt a 10-year programme to educate and build a "contingent ofnew cadres who are politically conscious, professionally competent, conscientiousand disciplined," Mr Makhura said.

"We are entering a phase of education revolution ANC young cadres must learn,"he said.

The ANC wants to strengthen its headquarters, proposing six new permanent posts atLuthuli House.


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These include a head of political education and cadre development, head oforganising, a department head of information and publicity, of governance andresearch, of international affairs and a head of human resources and administration.

11 April 2012

Business DayPage 3

Natasha Marrian

ANC calls for new protocols to avoid tension inalliance

The African National Congress (ANC) has bemoaned the relationship between thegovernment and trade union federation Cosatu, describing it as "oppositional".

In its organisational renewal discussion documentslaunched yesterday, and due tobe discussed by branches ahead of its policy conference in Junethe ANC indicatedits relationship with Cosatu had to be more "transformational".

Cosatu itself is battling with its stance towards the ANC. It is divided, with some inthe federation wanting it to adopt a more "oppositional stance" towards the partywhile others would like to maintain a close relationship with it.

The divisions in Cosatu are also linked to the leadership question in the ANC, withsome more doubtful about a second term at the partys helm for Pres ident Jacob Zuma

and more critical of his leadership.

Strained ties persist between the two, particularly as Cosatus opposition to labour

brokers and to the contentious e-toll system in Gauteng continues, after the ANC-ledgovernment remained unmoved by a nationwide strike in protest over the two issuesorganised by its union allies last month.

"Most structures of the democratic movement continue to relate to the state as if its

their principal enemy. In particular, the relationship between the trade unionmovement and the democratic state is fraught with destructive tension and unhealthycontradictions," the document says.

It describes contradictions in the alliancefor example, that there are members ofthe ANC who are "irritated" by the demand for the alliance as a whole to play animportant role in the governance of the country, while on the other hand, theleadership of both Cosatu and the South African Communist Party have argued forthis.

It says the ANC has to define the parameters of how alliance partners becomeinvolved in state power.

"The public-sector trade unions from the ranks of the congress movement and their

cadres of our movement deployed in the state are often locked in skirmishes thatundermine our common agenda to serve the people."


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The ANC wants to strengthen the alliance structures to ensure the leadership of thealliance formations avoid a "debilitating and destructive public discourse" amongthem.

"We need new protocols that will clarify how alliance structures navigate complexissues that often lead to public spats and major public disagreements," the documentreads.

In 2010, Cosatu general secretary ZwelinzimaVavi narrowly averted being disciplinedby the ANC after publicly condemning the party for failing to act against corruption.

ANC national executive committee member and Gauteng secretary David Makhurasaid the party would tackle corruption by establishing an integrity commission.

11 April 2012

The New AgePhutiMosomane

Pallo Jordan cautions ANC on corruption

Former Arts and Culture minister Pallo Jordan has said there is a perception that the ANCcondones corruption, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday.

"That perception will not be eliminated except by resolute and tough action againstthe corrupt in our ranks," Jordan said during a lecture at Emperor's Palace onTuesday.

He was delivering a lecture at the 19th commemoration of the assassination of SACommunist Party general secretary Chris Hani.

Jordan said the African National Congress and its alliance partners had to clean uptheir act.

Pallo Jordan's warning comes a week after the DA Federal Youth leader MakashuleGana told The New Age that money has corrupted the ANC.

Gana said that the current challenges in the ANC were around battle for the control ofthe countrys resources and not really about discipline

The bigger problem in the ANC is that money has corrupted the organisation. It is a

battle for resource not ideological he said

Cosatu has recently pledged its support to Corruption Watch to defeat corruption.

Cosatu said corruption was a pernicious cancer that was sabotaging the revolutionarystruggle. Corruption Watch can help us to fight back, and expose, prosecute and

punish those guilty of corruption, theft and mismanagement of public resources, saidtrade union federations spokesperson, Patrick Craven.


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Emergence of a strange breed of leaders

"SA is widely recognised for its liberal and enlightened constitution, yet we observethe emergence of a strange breed of leaders who are determined to undermine the rule

of law and override the constitution," Ruel Khoza wrote in his chairman's letterfollowing the release of the bank's 2011 Nedbank annual report two weeks ago.

South African's "strange breed" of leadership needs to adhere to the institutions thatunderpin democracy. He said the political climate was not a picture of an accountabledemocracy.

"Our political leadership's moral quotient is degenerating and we are fast losing thechecks and balances that are necessary to prevent a recurrence of the past." Khozaadded.

12 April 2012

Business Day

Page 3Natasha Marrian

ANC moots US-style primaries selection

The African National Congress (ANC) is looking to democratise its candidate selectionprocess by subjecting those nominated for positions to a rigorous screening process that

officials have likened to the primaries of US parties.

The partys organisational renewal documents, released on Tuesday, attempt to tackle

a "shadow culture" prevalent in the ANC ahead of elective conferences.

This comes amid talk of "secret caucuses" and claims that groups supportingPresident Jacob Zuma or his possible challenger KgalemaMotlanthe had already

begun lobbying ahead of the partys December election, despite the process formally

opening only in October.

The ANC would have to work hard at stemming negative practices around its

elections, national executive committee member and Gauteng secretary DavidMakhura believes proposals put forward in its organisational renewal document are agood starting point.

" Before you have an election those that are nominated get given a platform where

they can be asked (questions such as) what value will you add in the organisation?" hesaid in an interview yesterday.

Those nominated for various positions would be grilled by party members on theirexperience, leadership skills and capacity.


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"This will ensure that candidates dont subvert internal democracy by creating their

own platforms," Mr Makhura said.

This would also create an opportunity for those who are critical of those nominated tovoice their concerns and have them directly addressed by the candidate.

In the ANC it is frowned upon to express interest in a leadership position, but thisplatform would allow a member nominated by a structure of the partya provinceor leagueto be directly accountable instead of getting elected on the strength of the"slate"a list of candidateson which a candidates name appears.

A political analyst at the Wits Centre for Ethics, Eusebius McKaiser, said t he ANCs"single biggest challenge" was the poor state of internal democracy in the party.

"It is not sufficiently internally democratic for a party functioning in a multipartydemocracy," he said.

However, the move to deepen internal democracy was not enough to change thedeeply entrenched culture and attitude prevalent in the party about leadershipelections.

This required the party to be more open to different opinions and views on leadershipwithin its ranks, and to step away from the opaque manner in which leaders wereelected, Mr McKaiser said.

Another proposal is for candidates to declare all their business interests oncenominated for a leadership position. They should also be vetted by the "integritycommission" and an "electoral commission"new structures to be established ifapproved by party members at its December national conferenceto ensure theycomply with "organisational requirements" including integrity and discipline.

"There is no process (currently), obviously, no declaration of interest, there is no onescreening.

"Now we are running a state, we dont want the organisation to be embarrassed by

forms of conduct that come to the fore on the eve of an election. But if the party hasgot internal processes to ensure that by the time somebody is put there, (in top

government jobs) we are confident that there are no issues," Mr Makhura said.

The ANC is proposing outlawing unsanctioned lobbying practices in its ranks, such aspromising positions to gain support and attacking the integrity of opposing candidates.

12 April 2012

Business Day

Page 8Editorial

ANC cant have its cake and eat it


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Tightening up the ANCs internal disciplinary procedures including reviewing whether thosewho are charged should be allowed legal representation is undoubtedly necessary, but willbe for nought if the rules are not applied consistently

Few would argue with the primary points of self-criticism and structural weaknesses raised inthe African National Congresss (ANCs) organisational renewal document, which has been

put together for discussion by branches in the run-up to its June policy conference.

The party is indeed increasingly divided by ill-discipline, factionalism and the all-too-often corrupt ambitions of self-interested individuals, with the result that it is indanger of becoming estranged from its main power base.

But these are not new issues the ruling party is confronting for the first timemuchthe same list of grievances has been raised on various occasions, both formally andinformally, by concerned party members over the years.

That they have not been resolved indicates that identifying the problems, while an

essential first step, will not necessarily take the ANC any closer to resolving them.

That is because the very nature of the organisationthe way it evolved from arevolutionary movement aimed at overthrowing the apartheid system to a politicalparty focused on winning the first democratic election, to a government intent onremaining in powermilitates against the kind of fundamental reform that isrequired.

Maintaining unity in a "broad church" of interest groups all vehemently opposed toapartheid was relatively easy; doing so while controlling the levers of power andprivilege, less so. Clamping down on members who put their own interests before

those of the party and country, instilling discipline and respect for the decisions of theleadership and preventing factionalism all have the unfortunate effect of workingagainst the "broad church" concept.

The ANC wants to have its cakethe support of two-thirds or more of the electorateand eat it (demanding that they all sing from the same hymn sheet). In the longrun, this is not possible and the strain implied by the contradictions of trying to be allthings to all South Africans are increasingly obvious.

There is no longer a single, unifying goal that binds members of the ANC. The partypays lip service to concepts such as "a better life for all", full employment, servicedelivery and the eradication of poverty but, when it comes down to it, its constituentparts hold radically different views on how to achieve them and some are simply sopreoccupied with lining their own pockets that they do not care.

Whatever form the organisational renewal document takes after June, and whateveraction it prompts, it will come too late to make any difference to the manner in whichthe ANCs crucial elective conference is conducted in December, including the

buildup to it and the credibility of the outcome. Most of the unwelcome behaviour thedocument laments is a direct consequence of the fact that whichever ANC factiontriumphs in Mangaung will be in the pound seats when it comes to controlling the

power and resources of the state. For some, the motivation is undoubtedly a genuinedesire to uplift the majority of South Africans, but for others who have attached


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themselves to the party, it is just another battleground in an ideological war, or acynical way of enriching themselves, their families and friends.

Tightening up internal disciplinary proceduresincluding reviewing whether thosewho are charged should be allowed legal representationis undoubtedly necessary,

but will be for nought if the rules are not applied consistently. The document says theorganisation should act "firmly and promptly" against ill-disciplined members, butwhether this occurs will always depend on the integrity of the leadership.

The partys record in this respect under the leadership of President Jacob Zuma has

left much to be desired, and given his pressing personal reasons for seeking re-election in December, there is little cause for confidence that this will change soon.

12 April 2012

Business DayPage 8

Editorial

A clear conflict of interests

The dismissive attitude of government spokesman Jimmy Manyi about the relationshipbetween the African National Congress (ANC)-linked BathoBatho Trust and oil giant Shell is insulting to the intelligence of the public and is probably self-defeating.

This week, the Democratic Alliance called for the Batho

Batho Trust to disinvest from its 51% stake in Thebe Investments on the grounds thatthe ANC, as sole beneficiary of the trust, stands to benefit materially should Shell SA

be awarded a licence to explore for shale gas in the Karoo. As Shell SAs

empowerment partner, the Thebe Investment Corporation has a 25% stake in Shell SARefining and a 28% in Shell SA Marketing.

Mr Manyi described the complaint as "very wishy-washy" and attributed it tounsubstantiated speculation. Yet the conflict of interests between the ANC asgovernment being in a position to award licences for exploration while also being ableto benefit directly from them is clear.

Shell is one of three major oil companies that have applied to the Petroleum Agencyof SA for exploration rights in the Karoo. Although the company has confirmed itsrelationship with Thebe, it has been reluctant to define exactly how Thebe will beinvolved until production goes ahead. BathoBatho Trust has also defended its relationship with Thebe Investments on the groundsthat it is in no way involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. This missesthe point.

What makes Mr Manyis comments even more worrisome is that it is clearly in the

ANCs own best interests in the long term for the issue to be resolved in a way thatputs it above suspicion. If the government awards Shell an exploration licence, the


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ANC is bound to cause a significant backlash from civil society as well as openingitself up to legal challenge.

From the beginning, fracking has been met with fierce resistance from environmentalactivists and civil society, who argue that the government allowed public hearings on

the process to be unfairly dominated by big companies with vested interests. There aresome influential names and plenty of money behind the anti fracking lobby and theyhave made it clear they will not hesitate to approach the courts should licences beawarded without further public consultations and extensive environmental impactassessments.

Unless the ANC has lost all interest in the value of public opinion and concern aboutthe legal ramifications of its style of governance, it would be wise to acknowledgethat its attempt to be both referee and player is problematic.


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Carol Paton

Bank denies Shaik was in line for executive post

The Development Bank of Southern Africa has now hired a head hunter to help fill theposition.

The outcry over the pending appointment of former spy chief Mo Shaik to a topposition at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has forced a retreat,with the bank now hiring a head hunter to help fill the position.

Bank chairman JabuMoleketi denies there was ever any intention to appoint MrShaik. But top executives and board members, who spoke on condition of anonymity,say that Mr Moleketi informed the board late last year and again in January that MrShaik would be joining the bank as an executive responsible for its internationaldivision.

The announcement was conveyed as a political decision supported by FinanceMinister PravinGordhan and President Jacob Zuma . It was not tabled for discussionby the board, but for noting.

Mr Moleketi said the off-the-record comments amounted to "hearsay" on which hecould not comment. "All appointments within the DBSA go through a fair and openrecruitment process, whereby all interested candidates have an opportunity to submittheir application and whereupon each application is considered on its merits. Hence,this also applies to group executive positions," he said this week.

He said the board had assigned two head-hunting firms to help fill two top executive

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The appointment of head hunters appeared to have been made after the pendingappointment of Mr Shaik was reported in the Sunday Times two weeks ago.

It also came after interviews for the position had already been held and several

candidates interviewed. Mr Shaik was not interviewed.

Neither Mr Moleketi nor the bank would say when the head hunters were appointed.Mr Moleketi said he "was not involved in any of the processes".

Bank spokesman Jacky Mashapu only answered some questions put to him this weekand refused to answer the rest.

He specifically would not say when the head-hunting firm had been appointed orwhether interviews had been held for the position of group executive of theinternational division earlier this year.

Mr Moleketi denied that there were any interviews for the job. But bank officials saidinterviews for this post and several other top positions were definitely held duringJanuary and February.

Mr Gordhan said this week that he was unable to answer questions as he hadabsolutely no role in making appointments at the bank.

Brian Dube, spokesman for the Department of State Security, yesterday refused to saywhether Mr Shaik was still employed there.

The bank, which the government aims to reposition to play a key role in the Brics banking m echanism and to be a champion of infrastructure development in Africa, hasno CE. Last month, CE Paul Baloyi unexpectedly quit despite having another fouryears on his contract, which was renewed last year.

His replacement is certain to be highly contentious. Given the growing prominence ofthe bank in the governments economic and foreign policy agenda, the AfricanNational Congresswhich reiterated this week that it would not be giving up on its"cadre-deployment policy"can be expected to want a say in who is chosen.


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Fracking not credible if ANC will benefit DA

Cape TownThe governments decision on whether or not to proceed with theextraction of shale gas in the Karoo through hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") wouldbe credible only if the African National Congress (ANC) derived no indirect benefit

from it, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said yesterday.


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The DA claimed the ruling party stood to earn a "fortune" from fracking through thedonations it received from the BathoBatho Trust, of which it is the sole beneficiary.The linkages between the ANC and BathoBatho meant that the government, as theregulator, could be compromised in performing its tasks as it could be both player andreferee.

BathoBatho has a 51% stake in Thebe Investments, Shell SAs empowerment partner,and thus has an effective 12% stake in Shell SA Refining and 14% in Shell SAMarketing, DA deputy energy spokesman David Ross said yesterday.

"Deputy President KgalemaMotlanthe recently indicated that Chancellor HousetheANCs investment armshould divest its shares in companies that gain fromgovernment tenders. In the same spirit, the BathoBatho Trust should withdraw itsinvestment from Thebe," Mr Ross said.

He said if SA was to benefit from its gas reserves "in a manner that is economically,

socially and environmentally sustainable, it is necessary that the overseer does notstand to benefit". "Only then can South Africans have faith thatif the moratorium isliftedshale gas will be exploited in a responsible manner," he added.

But government spokesman Jimmy Manyi described the allegations as "very wishy-washy" and unsubstantiated speculation. The government had nothing to do withBathoBathos donations to the ANC, he said, adding: "This is all so far-fetched it isnot funny."

Mr Ross, however, stressed the need for all conflicts of interests to be dispensed withif the risks associated with fracking, such as the contamination of fresh ground water,were to be managed appropriately. Regulatory oversight would be critical.

"The political relationship between Shell and Thebe Investments has already made amockery of the due diligence process to be followed in ascertaining to whom thePetroleum Agency of SA should grant fracking exploration rights," Mr Ross claimed.

BathoBatho Trust chairman Kenny Fihla was recently reported in a Sundaynewspaper as saying that the trusts donations to the ANC were in line with its

specific transformation agenda. "We make no bones about the fact that we donate tothe ANCprecisely because the trust was established by the president of the ANC

at the time ( Nelson Mandela)," Mr Fihla said.

ANC politician Chris Nissenthe spokesman for the Karoo Shale Gas CommunityForumhas also been active in mobilising support for fracking in the Karoo.

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Business Day

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ANCs North West power struggle is far from over


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While the official party line is that last weeks appointment of North West African NationalCongress (ANC) chairman Supra Mahumapelo as the new speaker of the provinciallegislature was aimed at "strengthening accountability in governance", this could also becomea source of political instability in the province.

It is expected the move will trigger a cabinet reshuffle to accommodate former

speaker NonoMaloyi and to manage internal party tension in a province struggling toshake off its fractious past, blamed for lingering dysfunction in the running ofmunicipalities.

Such speculation of cabinet changes prompted North West Premier ThandiModise toswiftly issue a statement last week "appealing for calm". She said whateverintervention that might be considered within the executive "at some stage", would bebased on sustaining stability and rooting out corruption. Ms Modise, also deputysecretary-general of the ANC, was brought into the province from Luthuli House tohelp keep a lid on factional fighting within the ruling alliance in the North West.

Mr Mahumapeloregarded as the power behind the ANC in the provincereplaced Mr Maloyi, in what was seen as the partys way of dealing with the problemof two centres of power between the party and government. This was created whenthe new executive was elected at last years special congress, almost two years after

the 2009 national elections.

However, Mr Maloyihimself a former provincial chairmanis also seen as alocal heavyweight, despite talk that he declined to stand for the same position at thespecial conference where Mr Mahumapelo was elected.

Observers point to a hint of the Jacob Zuma-Thabo Mbeki scenario in the relationshipbetween the two, who have since fallen out.

"They were friends before," says a close Maloyi ally.

Very little in the spirit of "strengthening accountability" was evident in either MrMahumapelos acceptance speech, or Mr Maloyis resignation speech. Instead, it was

apparent that a bitter battle for the control of ANC structures in the province waslikely to follow.

It is understood that Mr Mahumapelo suspects that Mr Maloyi connived with the

ANC national executive committee in the move to disband the provincial structures in2009 amid speculation that senior leaders were involved in the formation of theCongress of the People (COPE).

Mr Mahumapelo has, however, rejected the allegations that he was bitter about thedisbandment, and that he had links with COPE, as some had previously alleged.

Mr Maloyis allies intend to position him as a possible challenger to Mr

Mahumapelos dominance when the province holds its next conference, likely to be in

2016.

According to sources, Mr Mahumapelo enjoys majority support in the provincialexecutive, after three people reportedly aligned to him were co-opted as additional


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members. The move to unseat Mr Maloyi was seen as a bid to retain the status quo,following a proposal that the speaker, Mr Maloyi and the premier also be co-opted asmembers. This would have changed the balance of power in favour of MrMahumapelos opponents, including provincial secretary KabeloMataboge.

Ms Modise last week said talk of a cabinet reshuffle was "mischievous and aimed atexaggerating and blowing out of proportion interventions aimed at strengtheningaccountability within the (legislature)". However, this has been challenged by anumber of senior provincial leaders, who insist that the reshuffle will happen.

In his resignation speech, Mr Maloyi warned that "the ANC is not a federalorganisation".

It is understood he agreed to resign as the speaker only after the national officialsintervened, including Mr Zuma and secretary-generalGwedeMantashe.

In his acceptance speech Mr Mahumapelo drew from the analogy of the persecutionof Jesus. "In life sometimes you would be persecuted even when you are innocent," hesaid in Tswana.

In North West ANC circles Mr Mahumapelos supporters call him "Jesus".

Democratic Alliance spokesman in the North West Chris Hattingh said: "That it tooksuch a long time (for Mr Mahumapelos deployment) is indicative of the tensions

within the ANC. We still have a long way to go before faction fighting in the ANCsubsides."

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