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It was predicted to go badly but turned out to be worse: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led the ANC to its worst election result since the end of apartheid, one which threatens his survival.
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In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
The committee's chairperson, Mathole Motshekga, warned that, if they fail to find a solution to the land question in South Africa, it could lead to a situation akin to that of Zimbabwe.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says it will shut down the Port Elizabeth district office of the Department of Health after two nurses from the Zwide Clinic died and at least 11 others tested positive for the coronavirus.
After the outbreak at the Zwide Clinic, six trade unions from different sides of the political spectrum joined forces as the \"combined health unions\" and forced the Zwide and KwaZakhele clinics to shut their doors until the buildings were disinfected and all health workers tested negative.
The rest of the Zwide clinic health workers were only tested three days after the death of their colleague but were told to keep working until their results came in.
At the protest, the nurses repurposed the popular struggle song \"Sizo xola kanjani... (How can we be peaceful when... )\" to bemoan the lack of PPE and sanitisers: \"Sizo nursa kanjani i corona (How can we nurse coronavirus patients [when we need nursing procedures
The protest on 11 May resulted in an agreement with the district health office that Zwide Clinic would be closed until thermal infrared thermometers and PPE had been provided, and that union leaders would also be called in to verify that there is enough protective equipment to create a clinically safe space for health workers and patients.
The district health office also sent letters to Covid-19 positive nurses confirming \"permission to de-isolate after Covid-19 positive test\" - in other words, to return to work - but these letters were sent on 16 May to nurses who only began isolating after testing positive on 10 May.
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule denied the ruling party was in a crisis.
Ruth First , in full Heloise Ruth First (born May 4, 1925, Johannesburg, South Africa—died August 17, 1982, Maputo, Mozambique), South African activist, scholar, and journalist known for her relentless opposition to South Africa’s discriminatory policy of apartheid. In 1982 she was assassinated while living in exile.
First was the daughter of Latvian Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda First, who were founding members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA); First herself would also become active in the party as she grew older. In 1946 she received a bachelor’s degree in social studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. While there, she organized the Federation of Progressive Students with Ismail Meer, Joe Slovo (her future husband), Yusuf Dadoo, J.N. Singh, and others, creating a radical multiracial student organization that opposed apartheid. From 1947 First worked for the progressive newspaper The Guardian, specializing in exposés of black labour conditions. In 1949 she married Slovo, and by 1954 they had three daughters.
After CPSA was banned (an apartheid-era legal action that was used to suppress organizations and publications and severely restrict the activities of a person) by the South African government in 1950, First was involved in organizing its successor, the underground South African Communist Party (SACP), which emerged in 1953. That same year she also was involved in the founding of the Congress of Democrats, the white wing of the Congress Alliance, a multiracial group of organizations that opposed apartheid. She edited the journal Fighting Talk, which supported the alliance. First also worked on drafting the alliance’s renowned Freedom Charter, which called for nonracial social democracy in South Africa, but she was unable to attend the Congress of the People gathering held in 1955, where the document was approved, because of her banning order—one of several such orders First was subjected to while living in South Africa. In 1956 First and her husband, along with Albert
1910: US President William Howard Taft signs the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.
The US Supreme Court rejects a line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and rules that HIV-infected people were protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
1999: In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime.
2003: US President George W Bush hosts European Union leaders at the White House for the annual US-EU summit.
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[Lesotho Times] The government has cancelled parliamentary by-elections in six constituencies as well as some local government elections, citing budgetary constraints.
Hospital operator, the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA), has reported the incident to the police, while the M Secure company suspended the guard.
The MBDA provided News24 with an incident report drafted by M Secure director Kaashief Niekerk who said two companies were responsible for security at the facility.
He added his company was responsible for internal security at the isolation facility, while another company, HRG, guarded the stadium's outer perimeter.
\"It is deducted that Mr Doch passed the internal security checkpoint unnoticed as a result of the M Secure officer not being at his post.
Niekerk said Doch left the stadium at 14:30 on Friday, but the incident was only reported to M Secure's management at 17:00 during the changing of shifts.
Since 1994, trade and investment ties between the US and South Africa have evolved against the backdrop of a complicated political and diplomatic setting.
Despite vociferous lobbying by chicken farmers against South Africa's inclusion in a renewed Agoa agreement, the US senate approved a bill extending Agoa for 10 years, with South Africa included.
Excluding South Africa from the new Agoa dispensation could have harmed the country's trade.
If the review found that the South African market was not sufficiently open to US products, the US could limit South Africa's Agoa benefits or suspend its participation in the scheme.
It is for this reason that when South Africa, in the early 1990s, applied to the World Trade Organisation for reclassification as a developing nation the US, supported by the European Union and Japan, objected.
The ANC is facing more financial trouble – this time it is yet to pay its staff members at Luthuli House for September.
[Monitor] Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has dismissed the common nuisance case that was put against the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)'s flag bearer for Kampala Woman MP seat, Dr Stella Nyanzi.
The crisis at some Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals has reached new lows as doctors are having to clean wards and wash bed linen, while dirt stands in hallways amid crippling staff shortages.
Nursing staff at Livingstone Hospital have told a shocking tale of overwhelmed staff and overflowing wards that are manned by just two nurses.
Most of the patients are under investigation [for Covid-19], and we don't know where we stand,\" a nurse at Livingstone Hospital said.
Nurses at Dora Ngiza Hospital went on a go-slow after patient admissions shot up as a result of Covid-19, complaining of being overwhelmed and short-staffed.
He said the department had approved the appointment of 100 general assistants and 59 professional nurses for the Covid-19 period at Livingstone hospital, he said.
The fire in the parliament complex in Cape Town took place hours after the funeral of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Born: 2/4/1913 Tuskegee, AlabamaDied: 10/24/2005 Detroit, MichiganRosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blakes order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation.Business / Schooling: Awards / Achievements:
Nelson Mandela, whose term as president cemented his reputation as one of the worlds most farsighted and magnanimous statesmen, retired in 1999. On June 2, 1999, Thabo Mbeki, the pragmatic deputy president and leader of the ANC, was elected president in a landslide, having already assumed many of Mandelas governing responsibilities.
In his first term, Mbeki wrestled with a slumping economy and a skyrocketing crime rate. South Africa, the country with the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world (6.5 million in 2005), has been hampered in fighting the epidemic by its presidents highly controversial views. Mbeki has denied the link between HIV and AIDS and claimed that the West has exaggerated the epidemic to boost drug profits. The international community as well as most South African leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, have condemned Mbekis stance. In 2006, 60 international scientists called the governments policies “disastrous and pseudo-scientific.”
As expected, on April 15, 2004, the African National Congress won South Africas general election in a landslide, taking about 70% of the vote, and Thabo Mbeki was sworn in for a second term.
In Dec. 2007, African National Committee delegates chose Jacob Zuma as their leader, ousting Mbeki, who had been in control of the party for the last ten years. Zuma was acquitted of rape charges in 2006. In late December, prosecutors reopened corruption charges against Zuma and ordered him to face trial for various counts of racketeering, money laundering, corruption, and fraud. He was accused of accepting more than $440,000 in bribes in exchange for helping a friend, Schabir Shaik, secure $5 billion in an arms deal and other government contracts. Zumas lawyers accused Mbeki of trying to sabotage Zumas political career. A High Court judge dismissed the corruption charges against Zuma in September 2008, saying the government mishandled the prosecution. The judge also criticized President Mbeki for attempting to influence the prosecution of
Turkey's dramatic military intervention into Libya's civil-cum-proxy war on the side of the Tripoli government has changed the narrative from 'Haftar tightening the noose around Tripoli' to his 'entire Western operation being in disarray,' as one analyst puts it.
Megerisi characterises the Libyan conflict as a 'proxy' war, as does Stephanie Turco Williams, Acting Special Representative of the secretary-general and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.
Turkey's intervention, backed by Syrian mercenaries, tilted the balance of power against Haftar
Haftar was initially stopped outside Tripoli mainly by militias loyal to al-Sarraj and a long stalemate persisted throughout 2019.
Megerisi says Haftar's next move may be to secure control of Libya's oilfields to justify his military adventurism to his domestic and external backers.
He also thinks it's unlikely the AU will succeed in getting a joint AU-UN special Libyan envoy appointed to replace the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Libya, Ghassane Salamé, who resigned in March in despair.
[The Point] The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has disclosed that 191,509 Gambians have so far registered for the 2021 Presidential Election slated for 4 December.
The Justice Department is utterly outraged this Thursday, after photos of Jacob Zuma in Estcourt Prison were leaked on social media.
South Africa's veteran anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu on Saturday appeared before journalists for the third time in 2021 to cast an early vote for local elections this week.
ZINDZI MANDELA, the daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, has passed away at the age...
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Mourners waving white handkerchiefs gathered at a Lusaka stadium for a state memorial service for Zambia's first president, who died last month aged 97.
Zindzi Mandela -- the daughter of former President Nelson Mandela -- has died at age 59, leaving behind four children.
The ANC has called on the Speaker of Parliament to hold high-level talks with Mogoeng following his comments
BY Everson Mushava THE relationship between the ruling Zanu PF party and its sister liberation movement — African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa — is on a cliffhanger after the latter revealed yesterday that it had had enough of the Harare regime’s antics characterised by “threats and blackmail”. “You can’t always have a neighbour that is always blackmailing you,” ANC national chairman Gwede Mantashe (pictured) tweeted following threats by Zanu PF director of information Tafadzwa Mugwadi to ‘expose’ ANC’s alleged sinister agenda which necessitated its two visits to Harare last year. “This relationship with Zimbabwe (Zanu PF) is always filled with threats and blackmail. I don’t like that. If Zanu PF wants to spill the beans on our meeting with them, they must. I am eager to hear what they want to spill,” he charged. He was referring to two meetings held in Harare by the two parties last year to resolve Zimbabwe's political and economic crises. South Africa’s Finance minister Tito Mboweni weighed in, tweeting: “I wish the President could just allow me nyana to tackle that turncoat @TafadzwaMugwadi @Sophie_Mokoena @tyengeni1954 @pulemabe.” He added: “In fact, ANC chairperson, @GwedeMantashe1 should have said that the relationship is abusive! This must be stopped! It must end!” Last August, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa dispatched three envoys to meet Zanu PF in an effort to resolve the country’s political and economic crises amid fears that problems in Harare could destabilise the southern African region. However, Zanu PF insisted that the country was not in a crisis. Last week, Mugwadi singled out SABC correspondent Sophie Mukoena accusing her of filing fake stories about President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration. He courted a diplomatic tiff with the ANC leadership when he threatened to “leak a bombshell on why the ANC delegation came (to Harare)”. This forced Ramaphosa to respond during an interview with the SABC on Saturday, daring Mugwadi to come out in the open with his “bombshell” and reveal the “real reason” which he claimed was behind his party’s visit to Zimbabwe last year. Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday chose to downplay the fallout, saying: “There are no alarm bells at all, we continue as we were. There is nothing alarming. We will continue to relate as we have always done. We have cordial relations with our colleagues, there is no problem at all. We don’t worry about anything; we have one common destiny which we want to push for economic emancipation.” On Sunday, Khaya Moyo said Zanu PF would take disciplinary action against Mugwadi over his unsavoury remarks. “A communiqué was issued on the constructive two-day meeting by the two fraternal parties and indeed these meetings will continue in the future. Nothing was amiss and necessary measures will be taken by Zanu PF concerning those involved in this matter,” Khaya Moyo said. “The President and first secretary of Zanu PF Cde ED Mnangagwa, the President of the ANC Cde CM Ramaphosa called each other in high esteem and n
The African Union obtains 270 Million coronavirus vaccines in efforts to surmount the second wave of the pandemic.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has described Zindzi Mandela as a “fearless political activist who was a leader in her own right”.
The former prison for Nelson Mandela and many other South Africans
is turned in to a museum at Robben Island.
