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Mumbai: Rs 12 crore drugs seized, 16 African Nationals arrested

In a combating operation, the crime branch of Navi Mumbai Police has arrested 16 African nationals for their involvement in the drug business. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Marshall take a serious shot at rival premium noise cancelling headphones with the company's third generation Monitor III A.N.C. over-ears

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Jacob Zuma’s MK Party poses a major threat to South African democracy – new book

South Africa’s general election in May 2024 fundamentally changed the country’s political landscape when the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority for the first time. Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall are the editors of a new book called Election 2024, South Africa: Countdown to Coalition. They fielded some questions.

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Ghana to Botswana: Why African voters are throwing out ruling parties

Several countries recorded total electoral power transfers while opposition groups made significant wins in others.

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SABC crisis: South Africa needs its public broadcaster – but who is going to fund it?

Here we are again.

The Conversation

Jan Smuts was a white supremacist. Nelson Mandela a black liberation hero. New book explores what they have in common

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history. Sociologist Roger Southall has brought them together, so to speak, in a book, Smuts & Mandela, The Men Who Made South…

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Why Labour’s high command has become very obsessed with bills and borders

There’s a global tidal wave sweeping away incumbents. It’s concentrating minds at Number 10 about their re-election chances

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Is South Africa one of the most politically polarised countries in the world? No, it’s not – sociologist

A number of reports have called South Africa a politically polarised society. This may seem uncontroversial, given the country’s history of dispossession and discrimination during colonialism and apartheid, and their continuing legacy after 30 years of democracy.

The Conversation

This Labour budget is austerity by another name

Letters: Politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and MPs from the Green party and Plaid Cymru respond to the chancellor’s plans. Plus a letter from Peter Riddle

The Guardian - UK

Tito Mboweni obituary

Leading figure in Nelson Mandela’s ANC government who helped transform South Africa’s economy

The Guardian - UK

Work starts in London on anti-apartheid 'Centre of Memory and Learning'

The £3.5m Islington-based project will involve transforming the building into a vibrant cultural space, and is located at the ANC’s former London HQ

Evening Standard

South Africa’s unity government won’t dent poverty and inequality if it follows the same old policies – sociologist

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The Conversation

The remarkable career of Tito Mboweni: from South African freedom fighter to central bank governor and trusted politician

It is sad to write about Tito Mboweni in the past tense.

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Mozambique’s election: Who’s contesting and what’s at stake?

Wednesday’s polls are expected to usher a younger president into power for the first time since independence in 1975.

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South Africa’s unity government is being tested – the toppling of a mayor in a key city exposes faultlines

South Africa’s long-governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), performed disastrously in the country’s May 2024 elections. Its electoral fortunes are now tied to regaining support in Gauteng, the most populous and economically important province, which it had governed with outright majorities since 1994. In 2024 the ANC’s Gauteng result…

The Independent UK

3 suspects accused of stealing cash from South African president's farm appear in court

Three people accused of breaking into South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s game farm and stealing $580,000 in cash that was stashed in a couch have appeared in a court and had their case postponed until next month

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South Africa's Constitutional Court To Hear Impeachment Case

South Africa's Constitutional Court to hear case on impeachment proceedings against President Ramaphosa over hidden cash scandal involving over 0,000.

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Joe Modise biography dismisses corruption claims against the former South African defence minister

The new biography of Joe Modise, one-time commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), is welcome. Comrade and Commander fills in a blank about Modise throughout the ANC’s three decades as an underground liberation movement with an armed wing.

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Al Jazeera

What’s South Africa’s new school language law and why is it controversial?

Afrikaans-speaking groups say sections of BELA threaten to ‘erode’ their mother tongue.

The Conversation

Pravin Gordhan: a lifetime of service to South Africa – as an activist and then in building the new democracy

It is hard to give an account of Pravin Gordhan’spolitical commitment in a few words.

Evening Standard

Former South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan dies from cancer aged 75

The ex-minister was a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle

The Independent UK

Critics say a South African education bill on language in schools threatens new unity government

South Africa's second largest political party says an education bill that would give the government more control over white minority language schools is a threat to the country’s new government of national unity

The Conversation

Steve Biko, the South African struggle hero who was prepared to sacrifice his life for black liberation

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? Jacob Dlamini explores this and other questions in his new book, Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa. This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko’s attitude to martyrdom and…

The Independent UK

Harris joins backlash against Trump over Arlington National Cemetery ‘political stunt’ – and Vance instantly jumps to his defense

Mere minutes after Harris posted the statement blasting her 2024 rival, Trump’s running mate JD Vance leaped to his defense

The Independent UK

Trump campaign stoops to insulting US Army ‘hacks’ over Arlington cemetery debacle

Trump’s co-campaign manager reposted a video from Monday’s cemetery visit and tagged Army Secretary Christine E Wormuth in an apparent effort to escalate the situation

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