WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2008-01-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Yep, control is slipping quietly out of Mbeki’s hands. He no doubt has his spies there, but even so. Jan]
South African President Thabo Mbeki was absent from the first all-important meeting of the ruling ANC on Monday. The party’s newly elected executive council was to discuss, among other things, the graft charges levelled against its president Jacob Zuma.
“(Thabo) Mbeki is not in today’s meeting,” African National Congress spokesperson Tiyani Rikhotso told AFP outside the meeting venue, east of Johannesburg without going into detail.
Mbeki, who was trounced by Zuma during the recent elections for the party presidency, also failed to use his position as an ex-officio member to attend the party’s executive meeting held on Friday.
The meeting on Monday elected the 28-member of the party’s National Executive Committee, whose names will only be made known on Tuesday.
“The names of the Working Committee and other issues discussed in the meeting will only be made known tomorrow. We are also expecting to brief the media on the outcomes and decisions taken on some issues here today (Monday), even though we are not totally obliged to do so. That will be decided at the end of the meeting, if it’s necessary or not,” added Rikhotso.
The secretary-general of the ANC had indicated to the AFP that corruption charges against party’s embattled president Zuma and how much support he should be given were expected to be discussed at the meeting attended by the 86 members of the ruling party’s highest decision-making body.
Other issues discussed included the preperation for the party’s 96th anniversary and the approval of the traditional yearly “January 8th” statement. The ANC was established on January 8, 1912 and will be turning 96 on Tuesday.
Rikhotso said the meeting was expected to go on until late in to the night, and he was barred by “protocol” from saying how far they had got with the day’s agenda.
The 28 NWC members elected would oversee the day-to-day running of the party.
Zuma, 65, was on December 28 charged with fraud, corruption, money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion following a probe which also implicated a French arms manufacturing group, Thales.
The trial of Zuma, who married his fourth wife on Saturday, is scheduled for August 14.
Zuma was sacked by Mbeki in 2005 after his financial advisor was found guilty of soliciting bribes.
Given the ANC’s dominance of South African politics since the end of apartheid rule in 1994, Zuma would normally expect to become the country’s president when Mbeki’s second term of office expires in 2009.
Zuma has said he will stand down from his position if found guilty of any offence but he has steadfastly insisted on his innocence. – Sapa-AFP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080107223403407C819554