BBC NEWS | Africa | South Africans prepare for polls.
Hmm I wonder who is going to win…
The website seems a bit sad at the moment, but you can folow along here.
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The Times – Police should shoot to kill: Mbalula. “We are sick and tired of crime in our communities,” said ANC head of campaigns Fikile Mbalula to wild applause. “As the ANC we say criminals must be shot in broad daylight, finish and klaar.” We at least we know that if there is ever another South African [...] Zuma dropped charges round [...] One visa nine countries? Sure. Full details here. The nine member states, which had signed the protocol on the free movement of citizens were Botswana, the DRC, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Here is an interesting story on Zuma’s two (current) wives. It would appear that he is in the process of paying lobola on what will be the third. He is divorced from Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and another wife Kate committed suicide in 2000. In a 180 I now like Zuma. From the Cape Argus article here. Taking a dig at Mbeki’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” towards Zimbabwe, Zuma said it was tragic that there were world leaders who witnessed repression and pretended that it was not happening or was exaggerated. “When history eventually deals with the dictators, those who stood [...] The Beeb has a good article providing a time line of Zuma’s past legal issues, here. June 2005 Things are heating up within the ANC, creating a sort of internal two party system within South Africa’s only viable political party. At the beginning of the ANC election conference Jacob Zuma’s supporters set the tone by heckling the opposition, here. |
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