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South Africa’s ANC Veterans Walk Away as Key Election Approaches
Former Mandela aide blames failures on the party and not apartheid for crime and millions of South Africans living in shacks and begging in the streets.
ANC Could Fall From Power in South Africa in 2024, Poll Shows
High jobless and crime rates, failing services, corruption, and an energy crisis have given impetus to a coalition seeking to oust the party after 30 years.
Zimbabwe Election a Foreboding of What’s to Come in South Africa, Analysts Say
They say the governing parties have much in common, including corruption.
South Africa Chant That Calls for ‘Killing’ White Farmers Evokes Apartheid Divisions
A South African revolutionary song calling for blacks to kill white farmers has fomented racial tensions in the lead-up to elections. The main political opposition party has complained to the United National Human Rights Council.
South Africa Election: ANC Wins Diminished Majority as Smaller Parties Gain
The incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC dropped below 60 percent for the first time.
South Africa’s Myopic Youth Protesters Speeding the End of an Inclusive Society
As student unrest sweeps South Africa, the debate and discourse laid out in youthful pronouncements and Twitter feeds is increasingly racist.
A Big Election Win for South Africa’s ANC, but Results Suggest Future Challenges
On the surface, 2014 appears to represent “business as usual” for the landscape of South Africa’s electoral politics. The African National Congress (ANC) has secured a fifth straight victory in the latest national election.
Reliving the South African Struggle in London
Thomas Wolfe wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again” years ago, and its core truth keeps popping up in my life even as I tend to retrace some of my life journeys, in an endless walk down memory lane.
South Africa Is an Angry and Frustrated Nation
These are not the best of times in South Africa. It seems clear that there is fear and loathing everywhere as the press is packed with fresh allegations of corruption, and a restive mood spreads across the country.
