South Africa: ANC’s surprise election challenger evokes past anti-apartheid struggle and is drawing in numbers
That MK party, named after the ANC’s old armed wing, shows how the 82-year-old Zuma is leveraging the past to rally South Africans’ support against the ANC, which he himself once claimed would rule until “Jesus comes back.”
South Africa’s assassinations epidemic: ANC, like Kanu in Kenya, leaves a trail of political killings
Political demagoguery, explain Prof Oniang’o and Salat, is the source of disenchantment with ANC and Kanu, leading to splits. Similar situations obtain in Zimbabwe, where independence parties Zapu-PF and Zanu-PF are sliding into insignificance. They are accused of the same mistakes Kanu made in Kenya, and which are currently being replayed in South Africa as the country holds its seventh general election.
Hours to South Africa’s elections, opposition parties ramp up attacks on ruling ANC, leftist EFF
Steenhuisen has repeatedly accused the ruling ANC and the leftist opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters of planning to go into coalition after the elections. Speaking ahead of its final rally in the city of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Velenkosini Hlabisa said their main objective was to see the current government removed.
Chinese creepers exploit lax Nigerian law enforcement and terrorism to illegally mine, export tonnesas of lithium
Nigeria has long neglected the solid minerals sector, which allows some communities like the northern-central town of Jos, which is tin-abundant, to depend on subsistence mining for their livelihood.
Zimbabwe fights citizenry resistance to world’s newest currency as demand for US dollar peaks
Senior officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the ruling ZANU-PF party embarked on a flurry of public rallies and meetings to encourage the sceptical population to now embrace the ZiG ahead of the US dollar, which is also legal tender in the southern African nation. Commercial jingles heralding the currency flooded the airwaves along with Caleb’s single.
South Africa’s Ramaphosa walks tightrope as he promises to ‘do better’ if re-elected president
In comments broadcast on national television, he said the ANC would focus on getting more South Africans into work, tackle the high cost of living, maintain existing social grants and progressively implement a basic income support grant for the unemployed.
Uncertainty hangs over ruling ANC party as South Africans get ready to vote next week
The vote occurs in the lower house of Parliament, known as the National Assembly, and it needs at least 201 votes from its 400 lawmakers to elect a president. The ANC has always had a majority in Parliament since 1994 and so the president has always been from the ANC.
VP Harris announces during Kenya’s President Ruto’s US tour plans to raise internet access in Africa by 80 per cent
Africa has struggled to receive the capital needed to build up its industrial and technological sectors. The United Nations reported last year that foreign direct investment in the continent fell to $45 billion in 2022, from a record high $80 billion in 2021.
‘There was a group of us for cooking, cleaning or marry the Al Shabaab bosses and if you looked like a monkey they killed you’
Our job [during captivity] was to find food and water for them. If you refused you were punished or killed. They were also forcing women to have sex, and when they were pregnant, they were taking babies out of their bellies.
Al Shabaab to raped Mozambican women: ‘There is no food for monkeys and dogs, you are not a person to us’
Hundreds – and possibly thousands – of women and girls have been kidnapped by the group known locally as al-Shabab (“the youth” in Arabic), which began a rebellion in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province in 2017. Many of them have been forcibly married and repeatedly raped in military camps.
