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Warrefok Entheos
Number of posts : 1056 Age : 75 Location : Pretoria - South Africa Registration date : 2007-10-18
| Subject: Mbeki era closes as ANC elects Zuma Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:05 am | |
| Mbeki era closes as ANC elects ZumaBy Basildon Peta in Polokwane Published: 19 December 2007 The South African President's world crumbled around him last night after his party rejected his spirited bid to cling to power. Members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) voted Thabo Mbeki out of the leadership of the party by a fairly wide margin of 724 votes in favour of his nemesis, Jacob Zuma, who is now on course to succeed him as president of the country. Not only was Mr Mbeki personally humiliated within the ANC, but his chief allies were rejected by party members in a vote for the top six officials. Mr Mbeki and his allies lost the positions of president, deputy president, national chairperson, secretary general, deputy secretary general and treasurer general in a clean sweep to Mr Zuma's allies. This means that Mr Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela in 1999, after having served him earlier as his deputy, will no longer exert any influence over the governance of South Africa once his term as head of state expires in 2009. It emerged last night that Mr Mbeki's close associates proposed that he should withdraw with them in order to avoid certain defeat, but he refused. Mr Mbeki is now likely to face pressure from Mr Zuma's supporters to resign as President before 2009 to avoid creating two centres of power. snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snipMr Mbeki polled 1,505 votes against Mr Zuma's 2,329. The result mirrored the losses suffered by Mr Mbeki in primary voting by delegates last month before this week's conference. snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snip---snipRead Article Here | |
| | | Warrefok Entheos
Number of posts : 1056 Age : 75 Location : Pretoria - South Africa Registration date : 2007-10-18
| Subject: Jacob Zuma is the new ANC leader Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:22 am | |
| Jacob Zuma is the new ANC leader December 18, 2007, 21:15Jacob Zuma is the new President of the ANC. Zuma secured 2 329 votes. He was up against incumbent President Thabo Mbeki for the party's top position. Mbeki received 1 505 votes. In the run-up to the conference in Polokwane, Zuma emerged as the frontrunner during the party's recent nomination process. He secured nominations in five provinces, including Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, the Free State and the Northern Cape. The ANC Youth League and Women's League also stood firmly behind him. Mbeki garnered votes from the ANC in the Eastern and Western Capes, the North West and Limpopo. Former Secretary General, Kgalema Motlanthe, has been elected as the new Deputy President for the ANC. He was pitted against Foreign Affairs Minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. National Speaker of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, has defeated Government's Policy Co-ordinator, Joel Netshitenzhe, to the position of National Chairperson. National chairThe SA Communist Party (SACP) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe won the race for the party's National Chairperson. The other contender was Mosiuoa Lekota. Speaker of the North West Legislature, Thandi Modise, is the new Deputy Secretary General. She was up against Public Works Minister, Thoko Didiza. Matthews Phosa is the new Treasurer-General of the party. | |
| | | Bennie Addict
Number of posts : 392 Location : Johannesburg Registration date : 2007-11-02
| Subject: Re: Mbeki era closes as ANC elects Zuma Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:38 am | |
| MBEKI'S LEGACY ----- STALINIST AND PSEUDO SCIENTIST!
Reported deaths from all causes, 1997 to 2005 Year of death | Age (years) | Total | 0-9 | 10-24 | 25-49 | 50+ | Unspecified | 1997 | 35,441 | 22,636 | 92,796 | 160,058 | 5,574 | 316,505 | 1998 | 41,172 | 25,799 | 114,215 | 178,763 | 5,104 | 365,053 | 1999 | 41,834 | 27,686 | 129,881 | 178,877 | 2,704 | 380,982 | 2000 | 42,802 | 29,463 | 150,149 | 189,118 | 2,204 | 413,736 | 2001 | 44,876 | 31,408 | 172,963 | 201,738 | 1,911 | 452,896 | 2002 | 50,741 | 34,381 | 200,844 | 211,504 | 2,024 | 499,494 | 2003 | 56,593 | 37,363 | 228,819 | 227,280 | 2,770 | 552,825 | 2004 | 62,212 | 38,054 | 242,066 | 222,231 | 2,925 | 567,488 | 2005 | 67,559 | 38,221 | 250,043 | 232,168 | 3,222 | 591,213 | Increase 1997-2005 | 91% | 69% | 169% | 45% | -42% | 87% | The influence of population growth can be removed by looking at death rates per 100,000 people, which are provided by Statistics South Africa in another report called "Adult mortality (age 15-64) based on death notification data in South Africa: 1997-2004". These data show that between 1997 and 2004, the death rate among men aged 30-39 more than doubled, while that among women aged 25-34 more than quadrupled. The changes are even more pronounced when deaths from natural causes only are examined. Over the same period there was relatively little change in the death rates among people aged over 55 and those aged 15-20. In their report, Statistics South Africa call such developments "astounding", "alarming" and "disturbing". http://www.avert.org/safricastats.htmLONG LIVE BEETROOT !! VIVA SHOWER!!!! AMANDLA | |
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