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In a truly extraordinary development, Gwede Mantashe, the secretary general of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), called a press conference on Saturday to announce that: [T]he party’s top-level National Executive Committee [NEC] has decided to recall the president of the republic before his term of office expires. Then, in a bit of political doublespeak… Read more.
In their most important election since the end of Apartheid 13 years ago, South Africans will vote today for either President Thabo Mbeki (right) or former Deputy President Jacob Zuma to head the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC). And no one doubts that the man they choose will either determine who leads or will… Read more.
Just over a month ago, I posted this article detailing some graphic and damningly probative testimony by the HIV-positive woman who claimed that Jacob Zuma (her dead father’s best friend and the man she regarded as her adopted father) had raped her. In his defense, however, Zuma took the stand and testified that although he… Read more.
Celebrated in Washington… African leaders receive commendations and pledges of lots of cash for implementing democratic reforms in their respective countries during their visit to the White House in Washington, DC. From L-R: President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia, President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique, President Festus Mogae of Botswana, President Bush, President Mamadou Tandja of Niger,… Read more.
