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Article: MBEKI LOSES GRIP; President's opponents make their boldest moves yet, while Zuma plays statesman-in-waiting.(News)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2006
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BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare and Angela Quintal
President Thabo Mbeki is off to make peace in Ivory Coast on Monday, while the ANC is at war at home.
Mbeki, who arrived back from New York on Thursday, faced unprecedented rebellion this week. In his absence, Mbeki's opponents made their boldest gestures of disapproval yet in his tenure as head of the ANC. And so far he has done little to counter the invective.
His deputy president, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, was publicly humiliated and insulted at Cosatu's congress, militant workers rejected his business-friendly policies in favour of wholesale nationalisation, and one of his senior cabinet ministers ...