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Time to reflect as ANC marks 96 years.(News)
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Pretoria News (South Africa)
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January 8, 2008
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BYLINE: Deon de Lange
The ANC is 96 years old today. And while the party prepares to party this weekend, recently elected leader Jacob Zuma faces criminal charges of fraud, corruption, racketeering, money laundering and tax evasion - presenting the ANC with its biggest organisational crisis since it swept to power in 1994.
Zuma is scheduled to answer these charges in the Pietermaritzburg high court on August 14 unless a "political solution" is imposed on the judiciary.
Whatever happens, these developments will see the ANC devoting its 97th year to the management of an entirely self-made crisis.
Since coming to power in 1994, the party has faced many ...
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