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  1. LazyLion

    Mugabe Warns Against Violence

    President Robert Mugabe marked Zimbabwe's 33 years of independence with a renewed call to shun violence ahead of elections later this year to choose a successor to the country's shaky power-sharing government. "The country is now due to hold harmonised elections, and I wish to urge the nation...
  3. LazyLion

    Gauteng Getting Ready for 2014

    The ANC in Gauteng has commissioned an audit of development and service delivery in every part of the province, secretary David Makhura said on Wednesday. This was in preparation for the 2014 elections. "This is not just another election," Makhura told reporters in Johannesburg. "We are...
  4. LazyLion

    Community Gather for Midvaal Demarcation Meeting

    Hundreds of residents gathered in Vereeniging's town hall on Thursday morning ahead of a public consultation meeting on a proposal to merge three municipalities, including the only DA-run municipality in Gauteng. The proposal to merge the Midvaal, Emfuleni and Sedibeng municipalities was...
  5. LazyLion

    Protest Marches Not the Answer: Zille

    Service delivery protest marches do not make any difference, DA leader Helen Zille said in Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape on Friday. "The truth is, protest marches rarely change anything because making a noise doesn't change a government." She was speaking to residents after a tour of the...
  6. LazyLion

    NWest ANC Fails to Register Candidate

    The North West ANC has failed to register a candidate to contest a by-election in the Tswaing municipality, the party said on Thursday. "The ANC in the province was unable to comply with a deadline on the registration of a candidate for the affected ward," spokesman Kenny Morolong said...
  7. LazyLion

    WASP Takes off in Pretoria

    A new political party, the Workers and Socialist Party (Wasp), has made its entrance on South Africa's political scene. "Comrades came from various communities all over the country and the turnout exceeded our expectations," spokesman Mamatlwe Sebei said on Friday after the party's launch...
  8. LazyLion

    New Socialist Party to be Launched

    A new political party, the Workers and Socialist Party (Wasp) will be unveiled on Thursday. The announcement would be made at press conference in Tshwane, Wasp spokesman Mamatlwe Sebei said in a statement on Wednesday. He said it was fitting to launch the party on Human Rights Day. "It...
  9. LazyLion

    Many Young Blacks Not Confident in Political Parties

    Forty percent of young black people have little or no confidence in the country's political parties, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The same was true of more than two-thirds of young people from other races, the study showed. It was conducted by the Institute for Justice and...
  10. LazyLion

    ANC Needs to Look at Itself: Yacoob

    The ruling African National Congress needs to take a long, hard look at itself if it wants to root out corruption in government, a retired Constitutional Court judge said, The Times reported on Tuesday. "Unless the ANC looks deep [into] the corruption culture within itself, the problem will...
  11. LazyLion

    Violence Erupts on Eve of Zimbabwe Referendum

    Suspected supporters of Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe were accused of attacking members of the main opposition party Friday, heightening tensions on the eve of a key constitutional referendum. Seven members from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)...
  12. LazyLion

    Zimbabwe Election Body Won't Ease Monitoring Group Ban

    Zimbabwe's official election body says it will not back down on its ban preventing a leading human rights group from monitoring a referendum on a new constitution on Saturday. Acting head of the Electoral Commission Joyce Kazembe said Wednesday the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association is facing...
  13. LazyLion

    Pro-Mining Opposition Wins Greenland Election

    An opposition centrist party that favors tapping Greenland's underground mineral wealth appears poised to win the Arctic country's parliamentary election. With some three-fourths of the votes counted, incumbent Premier Kuupik Kleist has conceded defeat in the battle for control of the 31-seat...
  14. LazyLion

    Zimbabwe 'Ready' for Referendum

    Cash-squeezed Zimbabwe has resorted to cutting allowances for election officials as it struggles to pay for a constitutional referendum later this week, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Monday. The country goes to the polls on Saturday to adopt or reject a new supreme law, but faces a...
  15. LazyLion

    Worker Party to be Launched

    A new political party, the Workers' and Socialist Party (Wasp), will be launched later this month. "We [are] trying to build it as a party that can provide a political platform to unite the struggles of the working class people, not just in the mines but all industries," spokesman Mametlwe...
  16. LazyLion

    DA Moves to Change SA Electoral System

    DA MP James Selfe will table a private members' bill in Parliament on Monday proposing changes to South Africa's electoral system. Through the draft Electoral Reform Bill, the Democratic Alliance sought to "re-introduce a constituency system for the National Assembly". Currently, the 400...
  17. LazyLion

    New political party launches - the SANC

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2012/11/06/new-political-party-launches---the-sanc Very weird... not much info! But I am all in favour of anything that carves up the ANC into little pieces! :D
  18. LazyLion

    Cosatu president backs Zuma

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/05/02/cosatu-president-backs-zuma Just more proof that the ANC voters can complain loud and often about how the country is being run, But when election time comes, they keep voting exactly the same way. :sick:
  19. LazyLion

    ANC to help Mugabe win election?

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/anc-to-help-mugabe-win-election-1.1196180 Wonder what ever happened to this.... So they won't interfere in Botswana, but they will interfere in Zimbabwe? Do any of these morons ever actually realise when they are speaking with a forked tongue...
  20. LazyLion

    Gauteng ANC awaits Midvaal report

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/11/08/gauteng-anc-awaits-midvaal-report Will be interesting to see what she comes up with.
  21. LazyLion

    Zambian Election was nearly a repeat of Ivory Coast

    http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=23449 Thank Goodness sanity prevailed!
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