Tag: Politics
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The Battle for South Africa’s Soul
Today, one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s most important countries goes to the polls. Dubbed the most important election since the 1994 general election in which Black South Africans voted for the first time, giving the then Nelson Mandela-led African National Congress (ANC) a 62 percent majority, the 2024 election hugely mirrors 1994 in…
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The President, the Jet and the Spokesman
During his spirited campaign to be president, William Ruto’s main refrain was that he was the son of a nobody – that his father was a nobody, which therefore made him a nobody. The President repeated time without number that he came from nothing, absolutely nothing, and that it was especially for this particular reason…
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Ruto and Odinga Should Do A Joint Iftar
It might be prudent for the two leaders to share an iftar