The African National Congress is likely to face tougher challenges in the 2019 elections if it does not restore support among supporters, according to research by the University of Johannesburg released on Thursday. The ruling party was still enjoying substantial support from the older generation, while younger people were split[…]
Zambians queued round the block in Lusaka on Thursday as voting began for a new president and legislators in what is expected to be a tough battle, as slow growth and weak commodity prices weigh on Africa’s second-biggest copper producer. President Edgar Lungu and his main rival, Hakainde Hichilema, have[…]
The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday dismissed “ANC-inspired rumours” that coalition agreements have been reached, saying negotiations were ongoing. “This includes Luthuli House’s desperate spin that the DA was horse-trading control of metros. These are the last kicks of a dying horse, desperate to cling onto power using misinformation,” said James[…]
It was a bitter-sweet, emotional victory for the families of three ANC candidates who were gunned down in KwaZulu-Natal in the run-up to this week’s municipal elections. The Umuziwabantu Municipality’s Ward 1 candidate Bongani Skhosana, Newcastle’s Thembi Mbongo (Ward 6) and Ladysmith’s Khanyisile Ngobese-Sibisi (Ward 20) all emerged victorious in[…]
With a quarter of the results from South Africa’s local government elections still needing to be revealed, the country’s second-largest political party had already topped its performance in the 2011 elections. Those elections, which were at the time marked as a milestone for the Democratic Alliance, saw the party grab[…]
FEATURE: There’s an old cliche which says that youth are the future and have the power to affect great change in their home country. We saw this in the Middle East, swept by a wave of protests called the Arab Spring. On our home turf, it was the turn of South[…]
As youth, we have been told this time and time again. Your vote counts. But today, in South Africa, youth have said that they do not know who to vote for because none of the major political parties are appealing to them. These youth are disengaged from what is going[…]
The SAPS has promised to clamp down on political killings, and will deploy 100 000 officers to secure the local government elections on Wednesday. Police Minister Nathi Nhleko and acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane on Wednesday assured the nation that the massive deployment would ensure that the polls[…]
OPINION by Khaled A Beydoun The United States is home to nearly eight million Muslim Americans and Islam today ranks as the fastest growing faith group in the country. Outpacing it, however, is the proliferation of Islamophobia in the US – or fear and hatemongering of the faith and its[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo is unlikely to hold a presidential election as scheduled in November, the U.N. head of mission there said on Thursday, something that U.N. experts have warned could trigger violent political unrest. President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, is bound by term limits to step down[…]
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