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South Africans prepare for polls

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.

Police should shoot to kill: ANC's Mbalula

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 [...]

ANC claims it will actually do something!

Today we learn about: COPE

Congress of the People: COPE

BBC story here: The leader of a new political party in South Africa has said at the movement’s formal launch that it will offer a home to all of the country’s racial groups.

Former Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said the Congress of the People, or Cope, was the [...]

Bobby sicks. Thabo? Yes, him too.

Thabo Mbeki has really shown he is a pussy made of nothing nice and everything that owes to Bobby. Full story here. This is not the first time that we have spoken about Thabo’s legacy, but this would seem to ensure that his legacy is one of shitty inaction. Hmm… Who does that remind you [...]

Bring me my populist Zim policy buddy!

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.
The contents of Kate’s suicide note were recently in the news [...]

The Zuma Legal Troubles (pt1)

The Beeb has a good article providing a time line of Zuma’s past legal issues, here.

June 2005
Mr Zuma’s close associate Schabir Shaik found guilty of fraud and corruption in connection with a $4.8bn arms deal.
Judge Hilary Squires said there was evidence of “a mutually beneficial symbiosis” and that payments by Shaik to Mr Zuma “can [...]

Three guesses as to who won…

and the first two don’t count.
NYTimes article here.

Scholar and political analyst Xolela Mangcu said in a June speech, “There is nothing about his public actions that suggests he is a populist, that he would return power to the poor.”

I guess only time will tell many things about this situation. The race is on, Zuma versus [...]

Votes are being tallied as we speak,

Voting is under way! The end of the ANC is nigh!
Trevor Manuel weighs in on Zuma and his chief strategist, Mo Shaik, here.

Manuel said his plea to Shaik was simple: “It has taken 96 years of the most unimaginable toil and sacrifice to build the ANC into this formidable movement. It could be destroyed in [...]