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  • South African opposition faces backlash for inviting US to monitor election

    South African opposition faces backlash for inviting US to monitor election


    President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has condemned the Democratic Alliance (DA), the country’s primary opposition party, for its call to the United States and European nations to oversee the forthcoming elections.

    The DA forwarded this appeal in a letter dispatched last week to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and several European foreign affairs ministers.

    “The DA’s letter to the United States government is quite disingenuous and it is almost trying to sell our country to other powers in the world,” President Ramaphosa was quoted as saying by state broadcaster SABC.

    “And we have regional organisations in the world like Sadc, AU and have the UN as well. They always come to monitor our elections and now for a non-state entity to sell our democracy.”

    The ruling African National Congress (ANC) party also slammed DA for the letter on Saturday, accusing the opposition party of offering “South Africa’s sovereignty on a silver platter”.

    South Africa’s elections are planned for 29 May.

    Polls by research firms suggest that ANC’s share of the vote could fall below 50% for the first time since it came to power in 1994, fuelled by widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the economy, public services and c

  • Zuma suspended by African National Congress after creation of new party

    Zuma suspended by African National Congress after creation of new party

    The ANC, the political party that Jacob Zuma was once in charge of, has stopped him from being a part of the party because he didn’t support them and started his own party.

    The ANC made a decision on Monday.

    Mr Zuma has a new party called uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), which means “spear of the nation”. This party has the same name as the ANC’s old armed group that he used to be a part of.

    He was president for nine years, from 2009 to 2018, and had a lot of problems with scandals and accusations of corruption.

    The investigation found that the ex-president put his corrupt friends before his own country in a scheme called “state capture. ”

    He is accused of being involved in a corrupt weapons deal from 1999. He says he didn’t do anything wrong in any situation.

    In 2018, Cyril Ramaphosa became South Africa’s new President and said he would make the government better. He is now guiding a struggling ANC into this year’s national election.

    Save mission

    During the launch of MK in December, a statement was read on behalf of Mr Zuma. The statement said that he will always be a member of the ANC, but he won’t vote for it. He also said that some of the leaders of the ANC are not behaving in the way that the ANC should and now he wants to “rescue” the “once-great movement”.

    Mr Zuma has said mean things about the person who took over his job, Mr Ramaphosa.

    The BBC’s Daniel de Simone in Johannesburg says a lot of South Africans think that Mr Zuma symbolizes the problems of the recent past and has made the ANC look bad.

    However, he has the support of a large number of people. Many South Africans got very angry and broke things when he went to jail in 2021. A survey showed that almost one out of every three South Africans like him.

    It is still not certain if people will support his new MK party in the election, but it may take votes away from the ANC.

    The ANC started fighting against apartheid and has been in charge of South Africa since the end of white-minority rule.

    Mr Zuma, 81, had always been a member of the ANC.

    At 17 years old, he joined the ANC without going to school. He moved up in the ANC’s military and intelligence groups. He also held important positions in Kwa-Zulu Natal and eventually became the deputy president and then the president.

    Many people think this year’s election is the most competitive since the ANC became the ruling party in 1994.

  • President Ramaphosa is well but at home – spokesperson

    President Ramaphosa is well but at home – spokesperson

    The South African president‘s office said that the rumors on social media about President Cyril Ramaphosa being sick and in a military hospital in Pretoria are not true.

    This happened after Mr Ramaphosa didn’t go to a meeting arranged by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Sunday in Mpumalanga province.

    The ANC said Mr. Ramaphosa couldn’t go to the meeting because he had a sudden problem.

    The announcement made people start talking and guessing about the president’s health.

    “The president is okay, he didn’t go to the hospital, and there was no urgent situation,” said Vincent Magwenya, who speaks for the president, on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.

    Mr Magwenya said the president has chosen to stay at home for the rest of the day because he has a busy week ahead. He called the rumors “mean and not true”.

  • South Africa parties agree to work together to overthrow ANC

    South Africa parties agree to work together to overthrow ANC

    In an effort to unseat the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in the 2024 elections, seven political groups in South Africa have formed an alliance.

    According to the Multi-Party Charter for South Africa, if elected, the parties would cooperate to distribute ministerial and parliamentary seats.

    Additionally, they want to prevent Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party from winning the election.

    The main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party spearheaded the accord, which comes as the nation struggles with a failing economy, crime, corruption, unemployment, and an unparalleled energy crisis.

    Seven political parties in South Africa have joined together to form an alliance in an effort toThe Spectrum National Party, United Independent Movement, Freedom Front Plus, Inkatha Freedom Party, Independent SA National Civic Organisation, and ActionSA are the other signatories.

    According to the new coalition, invitations will be sent to additional parties as soon as possible.

    Analysts claim that for the first time since South Africa’s return to democracy in 1994, the ANC may lose its legislative majority.

    However, if the new bloc wins the election, it has not yet decided who will be chosen as president.

  • Ex-Secretary General Magashule dismissed by ANC

    Ex-Secretary General Magashule dismissed by ANC

    A week after being found guilty of misbehavior by the party’s disciplinary committee, Ace Magashule was expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa.

    He was accused of having tried to suspend President Cyril Ramaphosa as party leader.

    Mr Magashule was given seven days to respond but in a statement the ANC said he did not send any “representations to that effect”.

    At one point, Mr Magushule was widely seen as a political kingmaker in the ANC and was a staunch ally of former President Jacob Zuma, who Mr Ramaphosa replaced in 2018 following numerous corruption allegations – all of which Mr Zuma denies.

    Two years ago, Mr Magashule was suspended by the party after he had been charged with corruption – charges that he denies. But Mr Magashule said that move was against the ANC’s constitution and then said that President Ramaphosa was suspended – this is what led to the misconduct charge.

    Mr Magashule has hinted that he may start his own political party.