(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is likely to win 44.8% of the vote in this month’s national election and will be loath to invite populist rivals into a governing coalition, according to research group Krutham. Most Read from Bloomberg The predicted vote outcome, based on an analysis of opinion polls and municipal […]
South Africa’s top court is hearing a challenge to the decision to allow former President Jacob Zuma to contest this month’s elections. The electoral body originally barred Mr Zuma because of his conviction for contempt of court. That ruling was overturned on appeal, prompting the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to take the case to the […]
Julius Malema has a reputation for defying boundaries. His speeches at otherwise run-of-the-mill parliament sittings light up social media, the party he built from scratch almost 11 years ago has flourished to become South Africa’s third largest party and his reach extends not just across the nation but to elsewhere on the continent as well. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside their school in Kenya’s capital. They hoped the fully grown bamboo would help to filter filthy air from one of Africa’s largest trash dumps next door. More than 100 bamboo plantings dot the ground around Dandora secondary school, which […]
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond: Women stand side-by-side wearing the colours of Chad’s national flag, as they wait to see the interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno at a campaign event on Friday. [JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP] Tunisia’s ancient Roman Amphitheatre of El Djem is the setting for gladiator […]
(Bloomberg) — Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-ridden years before the ruling party forced him from office, has staged a dramatic comeback and is shaking up politics before this month’s elections. Most Read from Bloomberg The charismatic 82-year-old is leading a new party that’s competing in the May 29 vote, which […]
Inside a busy primary school classroom in the South Africa seaside town of Saldanha Bay, one chair is left empty. This is where six-year-old Joshlin Smith sits – or sat until she went missing in February in a case that has gripped the attention of South Africans. The huge search operation that involved the navy […]
(Bloomberg) — Voter support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress slipped further before next month’s election, a new opinion poll showed, with the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters leaking votes to a new party backed by former President Jacob Zuma. Most Read from Bloomberg The ANC has the support of 40.2% of voters, pollster Ipsos […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation’s multicolored flag. But any sense of celebration on the momentous anniversary was set against a growing […]
South Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki has vowed to remove “rotten apples” and “thieves” from the governing African National Congress (ANC) party. The 81-year-old was on the campaign trail for the ANC for the first time ahead of elections in May. He made the pledge in front of cheering crowds in Soweto as the party […]
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond: British-Somali athlete Mo Farah poses for a selfie with a little girl at the launch of a digital library in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Sunday. [John Muchucha/Reuters] Members of Senegal’s Sencirk circus troupe, founded by a former beggar, perform in Ivory Coast’s […]
Quick facts Where is it? Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia [7.518881, 38.650099]. What’s in the photo? From left to right: Lake Shala, Lake Abijatta and Lake Langano. Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8. When was it taken? March 29, 2022. The trio of lakes in this striking image each have a different color thanks to […]